🚨 The Kids are not Alright! 🚨
We have a pediatric illness soup, boiling over with school closures and overflowing hospitals in over a dozen states. Why are we allowing the large-scale pain and suffering of innocent children? They’re depending on us to save them. 🧵
We have a pediatric illness soup, boiling over with school closures and overflowing hospitals in over a dozen states. Why are we allowing the large-scale pain and suffering of innocent children? They’re depending on us to save them. 🧵
Hospitals: Status Update—
https://twitter.com/drmonicamalta/status/1584620262091546625
Why are we seeing this cauldron of pediatric illness? Well, we know immune systems are impaired following SARS2 infection. 🧐
And all the other Swiss cheese things! We will call it—
“Handwashing-Plus”.
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“Handwashing-Plus”.
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Adding info on pediatric bed availability—
“There are an estimated 40K nationwide. About 1/3 of those are concentrated in large children's hospitals on the coasts & south.” H/t @beadsland
540 pediatric beds per million on a per capita basis, vs 2400 beds per million overall. 🔽
“There are an estimated 40K nationwide. About 1/3 of those are concentrated in large children's hospitals on the coasts & south.” H/t @beadsland
540 pediatric beds per million on a per capita basis, vs 2400 beds per million overall. 🔽
And this thread from last year is still pertinent today— sub Omicron for Delta, and add enterovirus D68, rhinovirus, influenza A to RSV and SARS2.
“Children are not little adults…”
“Children are not little adults…”
https://twitter.com/denise_dewald/status/1426318422808449029
This seems important re: SARS2—
https://twitter.com/mark_ungrin/status/1584623702435823618
And this re: persistent effects on the immune system after Covid infection—
https://twitter.com/fitterhappieraj/status/1586507492200415232
Just realized VA is on here twice. Oops!
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