Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Mark Kline, Physician-in-Chief and Chief Academic Officer at Children's Hospital New Orleans, provides information on how the fourth surge of COVID-19 and the Delta variant are affecting Louisiana's children, and the strain that this spike in covid hospitalizations, combined with a staff shortage due to staff covid infections and illness, is putting on children's hospitals across the state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHf_mr_uno

Quotes below copied from twitter thread that breaks down the speech into shorter segments https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1422303133972242444

"This delta variant is every infectious disease specialist's worst nightmare.. There was a myth.. that children were somehow immune... It has become very clear that children are heavily impacted"

"We have not had an empty bed in any of our ICUs for weeks. We avoided going on diversion b/c of the responsibility we feel to take care of every child who needs us" but COVID is straining hospital resources"

"The number of healthcare staff out ill with COVID has increased on a daily basis. STAFFING is rate-limiting. Not the number of beds, equipment & ventilators"

"Half the children we are seeing with COVID were perfectly healthy"

"In short, we've learned the delta variant is a whole different animal from what we've dealt with in the past.. low rates of vaccination in LA means we're very susceptible to a truly devastating surge at this time"

"Standing next to Louisiana Governor, I felt like I was thrown a LIFELINE. It was very emotional. We've all been DREADING the opening of schools" b/c that will be a catalyst for more cases, suffering & potentially deaths"

louisiana is not demographically/vaccination status similar to DC.

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Mark Kline, Physician-in-Chief and Chief Academic Officer at Children's Hospital New Orleans, provides information on how the fourth surge of COVID-19 and the Delta variant are affecting Louisiana's children, and the strain that this spike in covid hospitalizations, combined with a staff shortage due to staff covid infections and illness, is putting on children's hospitals across the state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHf_mr_uno

Quotes below copied from twitter thread that breaks down the speech into shorter segments https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1422303133972242444

"This delta variant is every infectious disease specialist's worst nightmare.. There was a myth.. that children were somehow immune... It has become very clear that children are heavily impacted"

"We have not had an empty bed in any of our ICUs for weeks. We avoided going on diversion b/c of the responsibility we feel to take care of every child who needs us" but COVID is straining hospital resources"

"The number of healthcare staff out ill with COVID has increased on a daily basis. STAFFING is rate-limiting. Not the number of beds, equipment & ventilators"

"Half the children we are seeing with COVID were perfectly healthy"

"In short, we've learned the delta variant is a whole different animal from what we've dealt with in the past.. low rates of vaccination in LA means we're very susceptible to a truly devastating surge at this time"

"Standing next to Louisiana Governor, I felt like I was thrown a LIFELINE. It was very emotional. We've all been DREADING the opening of schools" b/c that will be a catalyst for more cases, suffering & potentially deaths"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A look at Florida pediatric hospitalization from CDC data, July 2020 through July 2021, shows:
1. a steep increase in the last month
2. a shift in March 2021 from hospitalizations of mostly children with pre-existing conditions to more and more otherwise healthy children.

Hospitalization numbers look worse for COVID-19. But those numbers are inflated as a result of the CDC's reporting rules. The CDC requires every child admitted to a hospital to be tested for the coronavirus.

Dr. Roshni Mathew, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says experience at her hospital found that 45% of the time, a child who tested positive for the coronavirus was not actually sick with COVID-19. The findings have been published online in the journal Hospital Pediatrics.

In those cases, hospitalization was due to "a completely unrelated diagnosis, like appendicitis or femur fracture or something else," she says.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/25/997467734/childrens-risk-of-serious-illness-from-covid-19-is-as-low-as-it-is-for-the-flu

So, in fact, any child admitted to a hospital is tested for covid regardless of clinical symptoms. If the child is positive, they are then labeled as a covid-associated admission. #misinformation

Anonymous wrote:A look at Florida pediatric hospitalization from CDC data, July 2020 through July 2021, shows:
1. a steep increase in the last month
2. a shift in March 2021 from hospitalizations of mostly children with pre-existing conditions to more and more otherwise healthy children.

Anonymous wrote:A look at Florida pediatric hospitalization from CDC data, July 2020 through July 2021, shows:
1. a steep increase in the last month
2. a shift in March 2021 from hospitalizations of mostly children with pre-existing conditions to more and more otherwise healthy children.

Anonymous wrote:Here is the most recent AAP report on children and covid:

https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/

unlike out of context news reports it looks nationwide.

it states “ At this time, it still appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is rare among children. However, there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts of the pandemic on children”