Reply to Pediatric COVID hospitalizations reports thread

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Pediatric COVID hospitalizations reports thread"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TheHill.com August 19 2021
As child hospitalizations rise, leaders must act now

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/568290-as-child-hospitalizations-rise-leaders-must-act-now

2000+ US children are being hospitalized for COVID every week, a rate rising rapidly.

CDC:
    [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9Ji7vaXMAA7NA9?format=jpg&name=medium [/img][/quote]

those are admissions with covid - not FOR covid. [/quote]

While that's true, that's been the case all along.  The rate of serious COVID hospitalizations will track with that.

So it is troubling.  Though, people need to understand what is does and doesn't mean. There's no evidence that cases are more likely to be serious in kids.  We're seeing an increase in cases in kids, but the rate of hospitalizations per case has not significantly changed.

If only we had an effective treatment to prevent serious illness in kids...  Though, apparently Jeff doesn't like people talking about the pediatric vaccine trials, given he deleted the other thread criticizing the FDA.[/quote]

Why did the other thread get deleted?  I'm not interested in criticism, I just want to know if there's a chance that the FDA will authorize the vaccines before the expected February 2022 timeframe.[/quote]

No idea.  Jeff has a history of deleting threads that are critical of the FDA or NIH.  In this case, the thread was starting to criticize the FDA's decision to delay the pediatric trial by requiring more participants than originally planned.  The FDA has not explained that decision.  The original plan was proposed and discussed in public, but the delay was done privately.  Presumably it was tied to looking for rare side effects, but that was already addressed in the original plan.  It's not clear why they later wanted  to change it.

Pfizer is still expecting to submit for EUA this fall.  And Moderna seems to think they'll still be able to submit for EUA for the 5-11 group by the end of the year.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics