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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url]https://www.houstonpress.com/news/at-texas-childrens-some-kids-with-covid-need-ventilators-11610665[/url]

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

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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.” "[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.)[/quote]

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