All schools should offer an all-virtual option

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.houstonpress.com/news/at-texas-childrens-some-kids-with-covid-need-ventilators-11610665

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-school-quarantines-more-than-100-students-in-first-week-of-classes/C36L5A6RUJCQFLSS3JLU4LDBXE/

Edited to add:
This is what concerns me:

"Out of all the kids who show up to Texas Children’s concerned they may have COVID-19, “Currently, roughly 10 percent of those children who test positive do require hospitalization,” said Dr. Jim Versalovic, Pathologist-in-Chief and Interim Pediatrician-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Hospital, “and roughly one-third of those may require critical care.”

Among those children who need critical care, “some have required ventilator support,” Versalovic told the Houston Press. “We have seen severe cases of COVID pneumonia and acute respiratory distress in children. And we certainly have used ventilators when appropriate, selectively.” "

Almost all of these kids are medically complicated. Look at the literature. You're talking about kids with tracheas, g-tubes, currently in cancer treatment, etc. And, even then, the death rate is vanishingly low. One single kid in TX (ONE) died of MIS-C; that's actually fewer kids than died form MIS-C NOT associated with COVID. It's fewer kids than died from winter storms in Texas last year. All of this is readily confirmable at :https://www.dshs.texas.gov/. The hysteria is not helpful.

But LONG COVID!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.houstonpress.com/news/at-texas-childrens-some-kids-with-covid-need-ventilators-11610665

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-school-quarantines-more-than-100-students-in-first-week-of-classes/C36L5A6RUJCQFLSS3JLU4LDBXE/

Thank you!
I have a draft post with reports on pediatric hospitalizations in 5 or 6 states, but am exhausted just thinking about the drama thread that would turn into.

Your Atlanta link is super interesting!

An Atlanta charter school will quarantine more than 100 students after two students and two employees tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week of classes.

In the days leading up to the first day of school, Drew tested more than 1,900 students and staff. That resulted in catching three additional positive cases among students before they entered campus, and two more staff cases.

And no word on whether any of those 100 quarantined students actually were infected by those four? That would be the important information.

It sets an example of what kind of disruption to expect in the upcoming school year as we switch from in person to home without sufficient devices.

[Anonymous]

I love that, across the forum, the cautious parents are called hysterical by the flu bro moms, but it's the flu bro moms who use :
all caps, !!!!!!!, "Enough is enough!", "I've had it!", "my foot down!",
"I'll sell my house!", "I'll sue!,""I'll raise hell!" "I'll protest in front of DCPS Central!", "I'll move to GA/TX/FL!",
"You have an agenda!" "You need meds!" "This thread was started to feed a narrative of fear!!"
"Stay in your basement!" "go to kipp!" "Oh, I feel sorry for your children!"
"[Statewide public health data reported in a news link] is just an anecdote!",
"I won't follow any silly ridiculous travel quarantine rules! It's unenforceable anyway!"
"I won't opt in to any silly ridiculous asymptomatic testing, because that would lead to quarantine!"
"I will send my kids in with a cold or the flu, if we get away with it but it won't be covid! Why didn't it bother you when I did it pre-covid, you hypocrite!"
"My kid learned nothing all year last year, and if they have to stay home for two weeks without any learning so be it because we hate distance learning!"

[Anonymous]

Pediatric Delta Covid cases looking more virulent: https://twitter.com/heather_haq/status/1421287982414409730?s=21

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.houstonpress.com/news/at-texas-childrens-some-kids-with-covid-need-ventilators-11610665

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-school-quarantines-more-than-100-students-in-first-week-of-classes/C36L5A6RUJCQFLSS3JLU4LDBXE/

Thank you!
I have a draft post with reports on pediatric hospitalizations in 5 or 6 states, but am exhausted just thinking about the drama thread that would turn into.

Your Atlanta link is super interesting!

An Atlanta charter school will quarantine more than 100 students after two students and two employees tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week of classes.

In the days leading up to the first day of school, Drew tested more than 1,900 students and staff. That resulted in catching three additional positive cases among students before they entered campus, and two more staff cases.

And no word on whether any of those 100 quarantined students actually were infected by those four? That would be the important information.

It sets an example of what kind of disruption to expect in the upcoming school year as we switch from in person to home without sufficient devices.

What they obviously need to do is find a more sensible way to deal with positive test results, such as the UK did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.houstonpress.com/news/at-texas-childrens-some-kids-with-covid-need-ventilators-11610665

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-school-quarantines-more-than-100-students-in-first-week-of-classes/C36L5A6RUJCQFLSS3JLU4LDBXE/

Thank you!
I have a draft post with reports on pediatric hospitalizations in 5 or 6 states, but am exhausted just thinking about the drama thread that would turn into.

Your Atlanta link is super interesting!

An Atlanta charter school will quarantine more than 100 students after two students and two employees tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week of classes.

In the days leading up to the first day of school, Drew tested more than 1,900 students and staff. That resulted in catching three additional positive cases among students before they entered campus, and two more staff cases.

And no word on whether any of those 100 quarantined students actually were infected by those four? That would be the important information.

It sets an example of what kind of disruption to expect in the upcoming school year as we switch from in person to home without sufficient devices.

What they obviously need to do is find a more sensible way to deal with positive test results, such as the UK did.

Funny you should mention the UK, because I read at least from 3 experts that they now believe it's the summer break from in-person school that drove the massive unnatural drop in cases of last week. So yeah, like the UK did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.houstonpress.com/news/at-texas-childrens-some-kids-with-covid-need-ventilators-11610665

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-school-quarantines-more-than-100-students-in-first-week-of-classes/C36L5A6RUJCQFLSS3JLU4LDBXE/

Thank you!
I have a draft post with reports on pediatric hospitalizations in 5 or 6 states, but am exhausted just thinking about the drama thread that would turn into.

Your Atlanta link is super interesting!

An Atlanta charter school will quarantine more than 100 students after two students and two employees tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week of classes.

In the days leading up to the first day of school, Drew tested more than 1,900 students and staff. That resulted in catching three additional positive cases among students before they entered campus, and two more staff cases.

And no word on whether any of those 100 quarantined students actually were infected by those four? That would be the important information.

It sets an example of what kind of disruption to expect in the upcoming school year as we switch from in person to home without sufficient devices.

What they obviously need to do is find a more sensible way to deal with positive test results, such as the UK did.

Funny you should mention the UK, because I read at least from 3 experts that they now believe it's the summer break from in-person school that drove the massive unnatural drop in cases of last week. So yeah, like the UK did.

Oh, you mean the same "unnatural" drop seen in other places like the Netherlands and Malta?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pediatric Delta Covid cases looking more virulent: https://twitter.com/heather_haq/status/1421287982414409730?s=21

anecdote

ZERO child Covid deaths in DC or MoCo. Several gun deaths. And this is with several weeks of Delta here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pediatric Delta Covid cases looking more virulent: https://twitter.com/heather_haq/status/1421287982414409730?s=21

anecdote

ZERO child Covid deaths in DC or MoCo. Several gun deaths. And this is with several weeks of Delta here.

There was a child covid death this week in Md, though they would not release the county due to privacy concerns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pediatric Delta Covid cases looking more virulent: https://twitter.com/heather_haq/status/1421287982414409730?s=21

anecdote

ZERO child Covid deaths in DC or MoCo. Several gun deaths. And this is with several weeks of Delta here.

There was a child covid death this week in Md, though they would not release the county due to privacy concerns.

Right. When demographic data can't be released due to privacy concerns, that means the numbers are VERY SMALL.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why all states don’t offer one core curriculum or virtual school. It’s mind boggling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.houstonpress.com/news/at-texas-childrens-some-kids-with-covid-need-ventilators-11610665

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-school-quarantines-more-than-100-students-in-first-week-of-classes/C36L5A6RUJCQFLSS3JLU4LDBXE/

Edited to add:
This is what concerns me:

"Out of all the kids who show up to Texas Children’s concerned they may have COVID-19, “Currently, roughly 10 percent of those children who test positive do require hospitalization,” said Dr. Jim Versalovic, Pathologist-in-Chief and Interim Pediatrician-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Hospital, “and roughly one-third of those may require critical care.”

Among those children who need critical care, “some have required ventilator support,” Versalovic told the Houston Press. “We have seen severe cases of COVID pneumonia and acute respiratory distress in children. And we certainly have used ventilators when appropriate, selectively.” "

Almost all of these kids are medically complicated. Look at the literature. You're talking about kids with tracheas, g-tubes, currently in cancer treatment, etc. And, even then, the death rate is vanishingly low. One single kid in TX (ONE) died of MIS-C; that's actually fewer kids than died form MIS-C NOT associated with COVID. It's fewer kids than died from winter storms in Texas last year. All of this is readily confirmable at :https://www.dshs.texas.gov/. The hysteria is not helpful.

I don’t see what you said in the article about medical complications in the article. I saw that 10 percent of positives were hospitalizations. And out of that 1/2 of the kids were in the ICU and some of those need ventilators. The kids may not have died but while a poster was sarcastic about long covid, I am sure these kids have a long recovery ahead. If hospitals in other area are starting to get filled up, it is only a matter of time a high tourist place like DC will see the same. And as we read in the Washington Post article, vaccinated people can not only be break through and can act as carriers.

For those of us with kids too young to get the vaccine, we have to follow more than the death statistics.

[Anonymous]

Edit J me at to write 1/3 of the kids. Sorry!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.houstonpress.com/news/at-texas-childrens-some-kids-with-covid-need-ventilators-11610665

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-school-quarantines-more-than-100-students-in-first-week-of-classes/C36L5A6RUJCQFLSS3JLU4LDBXE/

Edited to add:
This is what concerns me:

"Out of all the kids who show up to Texas Children’s concerned they may have COVID-19, “Currently, roughly 10 percent of those children who test positive do require hospitalization,” said Dr. Jim Versalovic, Pathologist-in-Chief and Interim Pediatrician-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Hospital, “and roughly one-third of those may require critical care.”

Among those children who need critical care, “some have required ventilator support,” Versalovic told the Houston Press. “We have seen severe cases of COVID pneumonia and acute respiratory distress in children. And we certainly have used ventilators when appropriate, selectively.” "

Almost all of these kids are medically complicated. Look at the literature. You're talking about kids with tracheas, g-tubes, currently in cancer treatment, etc. And, even then, the death rate is vanishingly low. One single kid in TX (ONE) died of MIS-C; that's actually fewer kids than died form MIS-C NOT associated with COVID. It's fewer kids than died from winter storms in Texas last year. All of this is readily confirmable at :https://www.dshs.texas.gov/. The hysteria is not helpful.

I don’t see what you said in the article about medical complications in the article. I saw that 10 percent of positives were hospitalizations. And out of that 1/2 of the kids were in the ICU and some of those need ventilators. The kids may not have died but while a poster was sarcastic about long covid, I am sure these kids have a long recovery ahead. If hospitals in other area are starting to get filled up, it is only a matter of time a high tourist place like DC will see the same. And as we read in the Washington Post article, vaccinated people can not only be break through and can act as carriers.

For those of us with kids too young to get the vaccine, we have to follow more than the death statistics.

If you're following the data that closely then you're going to need to actually become more sophisticated about it. "10 percent of positives were hospitalizations" does NOT mean that kids have a 10% chance of being hospitalized if they get covid. That figure likely covers only children sick enough to present to the hospital, and so it excludes all the mild and asymptomatic cases. It may also include kids who tested positive for covid, but were not actually hospitalized FOR covid (caught on routine screening.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.houstonpress.com/news/at-texas-childrens-some-kids-with-covid-need-ventilators-11610665

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-school-quarantines-more-than-100-students-in-first-week-of-classes/C36L5A6RUJCQFLSS3JLU4LDBXE/

Edited to add:
This is what concerns me:

"Out of all the kids who show up to Texas Children’s concerned they may have COVID-19, “Currently, roughly 10 percent of those children who test positive do require hospitalization,” said Dr. Jim Versalovic, Pathologist-in-Chief and Interim Pediatrician-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Hospital, “and roughly one-third of those may require critical care.”

Among those children who need critical care, “some have required ventilator support,” Versalovic told the Houston Press. “We have seen severe cases of COVID pneumonia and acute respiratory distress in children. And we certainly have used ventilators when appropriate, selectively.” "

Almost all of these kids are medically complicated. Look at the literature. You're talking about kids with tracheas, g-tubes, currently in cancer treatment, etc. And, even then, the death rate is vanishingly low. One single kid in TX (ONE) died of MIS-C; that's actually fewer kids than died form MIS-C NOT associated with COVID. It's fewer kids than died from winter storms in Texas last year. All of this is readily confirmable at :https://www.dshs.texas.gov/. The hysteria is not helpful.

I don’t see what you said in the article about medical complications in the article. I saw that 10 percent of positives were hospitalizations. And out of that 1/2 of the kids were in the ICU and some of those need ventilators. The kids may not have died but while a poster was sarcastic about long covid, I am sure these kids have a long recovery ahead. If hospitals in other area are starting to get filled up, it is only a matter of time a high tourist place like DC will see the same. And as we read in the Washington Post article, vaccinated people can not only be break through and can act as carriers.

For those of us with kids too young to get the vaccine, we have to follow more than the death statistics.

If you're following the data that closely then you're going to need to actually become more sophisticated about it. "10 percent of positives were hospitalizations" does NOT mean that kids have a 10% chance of being hospitalized if they get covid. That figure likely covers only children sick enough to present to the hospital, and so it excludes all the mild and asymptomatic cases. It may also include kids who tested positive for covid, but were not actually hospitalized FOR covid (caught on routine screening.)

Also - the large (if not overwhelming) majority of the kids hospitalized for covid are going to have severe comorbidities like tracheostomies. This does not mean we don't care about them; but it does mean that you need to do a little more thinking about the risk to your own child.