Delta and children

US, 20% of cases in under 18sCaseshttps://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscasesUploaded 10-08-21Hospitalizationshttps://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissionsFlorida, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and MississippiVaccinationshttps://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends In children7.1 million fully vaccinated, 12 to 17s representing 39 % of 16- to 17-year-oldsand 27 % of 12 to 15sPentagonMandatory vaccination for 2 millionTexasHospitals at capacityFloridaCases + 22,903 (a pandemic high)179 pediatric patientsK – 12 opens todayGovernor, no mandates in the state of Florida(Arizona, Texas)CDC, 27th July, everyone should wear masks in schoolsAny school superintendent that mandates masks risks losing their salaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CACRb3sTa6kPaediatricians disagreeDr Aileen Marty, Florida International Universityour children's hospitals are completely overwhelmedOur pediatricians, the nursing staff, are exhausted, and the children are sufferingIt is absolutely devastatingOur children are very much affectedWe've never seen numbers like this beforehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/08/10/hundreds-us-children-hospital-covid-should-uk-worried/Pfizer and Moderna, vaccines for 5 – 11 years olds by end on the yearUSChildren in hospital, 1,450400 child deaths from covid so far, (34 to 200 die from seasonal flu each year)Last 7 days, 94,000 child cases last weekDr Mark Kline, Children's Hospital New OrleansI've never seen anything like itWe are seeing children fall ill that we just simply didn't see in the first year of the pandemic, before the delta variant came alongChild admissions, zero to 20 in two weeksIllness duration in children of at least 28 dayshttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(21)00198-X/fulltext77 (4·4%) children59 (5·1%) older children18 (3·1%) of 588 younger childrenCommonest symptoms, first 4 weeks of illnessFatigue 84·4%Headache 77·9%Anosmia 77·9%Symptoms for at least 56 in children1·8% of 1,379 childrenUKhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274Hospitalisations in under 18s, 278 per weekAlasdair Munro, paediatric registrar, University Hospital SouthamptonWe are extremely busy in the children’s emergency department with Respiratory Syncytial Virus and norovirus among other things, but are still seeing very few cases of Covid-19Australiahttps://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-case-numbers-and-statisticsLocally acquired Cases, + 379Current active cases, 5,333Currently hospitalised, 432 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices