SO much strep throat

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a pediatrician and said strep has been really really unusual this year. Seeing so much and also some very severe cases.

Covid does absolutely impact your immune system. We will be seeing the after effects very clearly in the next few years. Hopefully that will get people to take things more seriously

NP. What do you wish people do/would have done? The closures damaged mental health and caused significant learning loss for children - a weakened immune system isn't so bad compared to that.

There's a lot of space between closing down schools and workplaces and reverting back to exactly how we did things in 2019 when there wasn't a novel virus infecting everyone.

We should focus on air quality and ventilation #1 - all indoor spaces can be upgraded, especially schools. We should spend time outdoors when we can, including school. We should mask with a quality mask whenever we have symptoms of any illness to protect others. We should mask with a quality mask in most places indoors when we're in the middle of a wave. We should mask in healthcare settings and pharmacies, on public transport. We should test when we have symptoms and isolate.

You can do all of those things with minimal impact to your daily life. You can still be out there doing everything you want to do. You can be smart about this virus at the same time. It's not all or nothing.

Air ventilation has already been upgraded, including at schools. For the rest, we can agree to disagree.

What are you talking about? You think all of the schools have adequate ventilation now? They don't. You live in lala land if you think they do.

The CDC recommends FIVE air exchanges per hour. Show me how many schools have that.

Strep is mostly contagious on surfaces. Ventilation might help with covid, but will do little to prevent the spread of strep, norovirus, and other infections.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a pediatrician and said strep has been really really unusual this year. Seeing so much and also some very severe cases.

Covid does absolutely impact your immune system. We will be seeing the after effects very clearly in the next few years. Hopefully that will get people to take things more seriously

NP. What do you wish people do/would have done? The closures damaged mental health and caused significant learning loss for children - a weakened immune system isn't so bad compared to that.

There's a lot of space between closing down schools and workplaces and reverting back to exactly how we did things in 2019 when there wasn't a novel virus infecting everyone.

We should focus on air quality and ventilation #1 - all indoor spaces can be upgraded, especially schools. We should spend time outdoors when we can, including school. We should mask with a quality mask whenever we have symptoms of any illness to protect others. We should mask with a quality mask in most places indoors when we're in the middle of a wave. We should mask in healthcare settings and pharmacies, on public transport. We should test when we have symptoms and isolate.

You can do all of those things with minimal impact to your daily life. You can still be out there doing everything you want to do. You can be smart about this virus at the same time. It's not all or nothing.

Air ventilation has already been upgraded, including at schools. For the rest, we can agree to disagree.

What are you talking about? You think all of the schools have adequate ventilation now? They don't. You live in lala land if you think they do.

The CDC recommends FIVE air exchanges per hour. Show me how many schools have that.

Strep is mostly contagious on surfaces. Ventilation might help with covid, but will do little to prevent the spread of strep, norovirus, and other infections.

let's just get the air exchanges up to the recommended levels. We already know how to clean surfaces--it's not that difficult. But most public places do NOT have the ventilation recommended. Why I don't understand. I get that we need to live with covid, so why are we not doing the basics to live with it as safely as possible.

I run hepa filters In my home. I was exposed to a family member with covid for 24 hours in our small apt and did not get it. I attribute that to the Hepa filtration (and my vaxes).

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a pediatrician and said strep has been really really unusual this year. Seeing so much and also some very severe cases.

Covid does absolutely impact your immune system. We will be seeing the after effects very clearly in the next few years. Hopefully that will get people to take things more seriously

NP. What do you wish people do/would have done? The closures damaged mental health and caused significant learning loss for children - a weakened immune system isn't so bad compared to that.

There's a lot of space between closing down schools and workplaces and reverting back to exactly how we did things in 2019 when there wasn't a novel virus infecting everyone.

We should focus on air quality and ventilation #1 - all indoor spaces can be upgraded, especially schools. We should spend time outdoors when we can, including school. We should mask with a quality mask whenever we have symptoms of any illness to protect others. We should mask with a quality mask in most places indoors when we're in the middle of a wave. We should mask in healthcare settings and pharmacies, on public transport. We should test when we have symptoms and isolate.

You can do all of those things with minimal impact to your daily life. You can still be out there doing everything you want to do. You can be smart about this virus at the same time. It's not all or nothing.

Air ventilation has already been upgraded, including at schools. For the rest, we can agree to disagree.

What are you talking about? You think all of the schools have adequate ventilation now? They don't. You live in lala land if you think they do.

The CDC recommends FIVE air exchanges per hour. Show me how many schools have that.

Strep is mostly contagious on surfaces. Ventilation might help with covid, but will do little to prevent the spread of strep, norovirus, and other infections.

let's just get the air exchanges up to the recommended levels. We already know how to clean surfaces--it's not that difficult. But most public places do NOT have the ventilation recommended. Why I don't understand. I get that we need to live with covid, so why are we not doing the basics to live with it as safely as possible.

I run hepa filters In my home. I was exposed to a family member with covid for 24 hours in our small apt and did not get it. I attribute that to the Hepa filtration (and my vaxes).

I had my COVID positive nephew literally spit into my mouth (accidentally while talking) and didn't get it. Our country's public infrastructure is crumbling, I'd rather put money there than in revamping every HVAC system in every public space.

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Anonymous wrote:Also FYI lots of kids this season are reporting stomach symptoms w/ strep infections.

DC has had strep twice since Feb. Vomiting, fever, and sore throat each time.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the problem right now is we just don't know. We don't know the impact that multiple COVID infections is going to have on us or our children...but we also have to live our lives. All we can do is hope that with vaccinations and natural immunity that a COVID infection will become less and less serious over time. It's impossible for people sending their kids to school or going to jobs everyday to hide from COVID, we just can't. I wish there was another way than just crossing our fingers and hoping but there really doesn't seem to be at this point. I can tell you that my family is much happier now that they are living their lives and doing the activities that they love. I am still nervous about COVID but I realize unless I want to homeschool my kids and go live on a ranch in Montana, I have to just live with the background fear. I wish there was better ventilation in schools, I wish that it was the norm to have air purifiers in every classroom and every restaurant...but that's just not our reality. It does feel a little like our leaders have given up because I certainly don't hear doctors saying everything is OK...but honestly I think they aren't saying anything right now because they just don't know.

At this point, there is absolutely no reason all schools and public buildings dont have much better ventilation. It should be a huge part of living with covid.

Unfortunately the covid deniers think living with covid means living like 2019 which means living with constant illness and long term disability. i don't want this but they seem to.

It’s not about people denying Covid, it’s about public officials not prioritizing the investment necessary to do so. Why do you think they recommended masks for so long? Would have been much more effective to update ventilation but instead put it in individuals to keep buying masks.

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, my son had multiple strep infections way before covid, starting in K. He would get it every year at least. He’s now in middle school and hasn’t had one since covid actually.

No way. Could he have had Covid and you didn’t now it? There is definitely a link to Covid.

DP. Not everything is related to covid. My kid got strep monthly for about a year until she got her tonsils out.

No way in hell was it covid related- this was 2010.

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A three year old got it at our school but not the usual symptoms and died from a rare complication that caused him to get septic. Please check and treat!

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

My 3 kids had covid in 2021 and haven't had strep since 2015 or so. For the anecdote. I don't believe the pediatrician. I think kids weren't exposed to it during the pandemic and now there's a big resurgence.

Some kids are more prone to it than others. I used to get it every year as a kid.

So you know better than the pediatrician?! Jeesh.

The pediatrician is just guessing based on anecdotes - same as me. They literally have no data on it.

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Anonymous wrote:I had clinically 'chronic' strep - 4 rounds of progressively stronger antibiotics - as a middle schooler in the late 90s and haven't had it since. There is a penicillin-resistant strain circulating now that is likely the cause of the 'reinfections' (actually primary infections that were never cleared).

This is also what I think. Not the covid.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the problem right now is we just don't know. We don't know the impact that multiple COVID infections is going to have on us or our children...but we also have to live our lives. All we can do is hope that with vaccinations and natural immunity that a COVID infection will become less and less serious over time. It's impossible for people sending their kids to school or going to jobs everyday to hide from COVID, we just can't. I wish there was another way than just crossing our fingers and hoping but there really doesn't seem to be at this point. I can tell you that my family is much happier now that they are living their lives and doing the activities that they love. I am still nervous about COVID but I realize unless I want to homeschool my kids and go live on a ranch in Montana, I have to just live with the background fear. I wish there was better ventilation in schools, I wish that it was the norm to have air purifiers in every classroom and every restaurant...but that's just not our reality. It does feel a little like our leaders have given up because I certainly don't hear doctors saying everything is OK...but honestly I think they aren't saying anything right now because they just don't know.

At this point, there is absolutely no reason all schools and public buildings dont have much better ventilation. It should be a huge part of living with covid.

Unfortunately the covid deniers think living with covid means living like 2019 which means living with constant illness and long term disability. i don't want this but they seem to.

Feel free to stay inside alone. No one is stopping you.

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Anonymous wrote:A three year old got it at our school but not the usual symptoms and died from a rare complication that caused him to get septic. Please check and treat!

Oh, I am so sorry to hear that. My prayers for his family and your school community.

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

My 3 kids had covid in 2021 and haven't had strep since 2015 or so. For the anecdote. I don't believe the pediatrician. I think kids weren't exposed to it during the pandemic and now there's a big resurgence.

Some kids are more prone to it than others. I used to get it every year as a kid.

So you know better than the pediatrician?! Jeesh.

The pediatrician is just guessing based on anecdotes - same as me. They literally have no data on it.

There's data. And a shortage of amoxicillin

https://www.cdc.gov/groupastrep/igas-infections-investigation.html

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https://www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1147052811/the-cdc-issues-an-advisory-about-a-surge-in-strep-throat-cases-in-kids

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

How silly. Almost all kids have had covid at some point by now.

Mine haven't. No strep either.

Probably they have and you just don’t know. The vast majority of kids are asymptomatic. The only reason I know my kids had Covid is because I needed to test them before a flight. They were absolutely asymptomatic the entire time.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a pediatrician and said strep has been really really unusual this year. Seeing so much and also some very severe cases.

Covid does absolutely impact your immune system. We will be seeing the after effects very clearly in the next few years. Hopefully that will get people to take things more seriously

Wish it would, but I'm not holding my breath. Most people don't seem to care the damages they are doing to their bodies and their kids

Sorry, what are these damages that we "are doing to [our] bodies and [our] kids," and how did you want us to avoid them? My family has had every vaccine dose we're eligible for, we wore masks far longer than most people we know, we've all had covid once (which we got at an outdoor event), and I don't particularly care for your insinuation that somehow any long-term effects of a global pandemic of a highly contagious respiratory virus are my fault.