Anonymous wrote:https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20and%20CHA%20-%20Children%20and%20COVID-19%20State%20Data%20Report%208.19%20FINAL.pdf

Most recent AAP data on hospitalizations:

Hospitalizations / covid cases for kids = 0.9% for the most recent week, and for states reporting.

Note that it was between 1.0% and 3.8% between May 2020 and Dec. 2020. So it was WORSE then.

Unlike the other metrics, only 24 states + NYC contribute hospitalization figures to that report (see table p.27 of the latest report here https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20and%20CHA%...ta%20Report%207.22%20FINAL.pdf )
In particular Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas are currently not reporting hospitalization figures.

At present, there are 9 pediatric COVID-19 patients, one of whom is on a ventilator.

"It does seem to actually attack children and younger adults more aggressively then the previous strains we had moving through," Dr. Joe Smith said.

"We have had much sicker children admitted to the hospital over the past three to four weeks," said Dr. Alexandra Yonts, an infectious diseases physician at Children’s National Hospital.
Children’s National Hospital is reporting a dramatic increase in young coronavirus patients. It’s a trend we’ve seen nationwide, with more than 180,000 new pediatric COVID-19 cases added over the past week.

"It was somewhat phenomenal," Dr. Yonts said. "It went from zero COVID cases and zero MIS-C or post-COVID type of kids, to, you know, a half dozen to a dozen overnight."

Dr. Yonts said even though children are less likely to develop serious symptoms or die from COVID-19 compared to adults, some can get very sick.

"Several of these kids were intubated in the ICU and also infected with multiple other respiratory viruses, which likely contributed to them being sicker," she said.

Children’s National currently has 13 patients hospitalized with COVID. To put that into perspective, the hospital says their peak number was 18 COVID patients, which occurred during the winter surge we experienced late last year and early this year.

This month, an average of more than 30 Illinois children a day have been admitted to hospitals with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, with the rolling seven-day average reaching 40 admissions last Wednesday. A year ago at this time, average daily admissions were around 20 in early August before peaking at 35.

Doctors said they are seeing an increase of young children testing positive for COVID and some of those cases are ending up in the hospital. According to the Hawaii Department of Health, pediatric cases account for 20% to 25% percent of all cases in July and August.

While some children may experience mild reactions to COVID, it is what happens down the line that worries doctors the most.
They can get something a few weeks after being exposed to the virus called MISC-C. It’s something that we’re seeing in children that develops as high fevers and rash that can affect the heart and is pretty scary looking and dangerous as well,” said Dr. Patel.
“We know a subset of kids who do okay in the beginning and then will then develop what’s called long COVID. That’s when the symptoms go on and on and on for months. So we are very worried about the number of kids cases that we’re seeing rise so dramatically over the last month,” Dr. Okihiro said.

Although the total number of newly hospitalized patients was smaller than days earlier this week, state health officials had bad news for parents and young children: the rate of hospitalizations increased for children ages 0 to 5. Nine babies, toddlers or preschoolers were hospitalized in Oregon this week according to the state, plus one child aged 6 to 11 and one child aged 12 to 17.

State officials noted the increase in children with severe enough COVID-19 to require hospitalization is part of a national trend, as the more contagious delta variant of the virus sickens more people of all ages.

Anonymous wrote:Hi, it's your "needs anxiety meds!", "feel sorry for her kids!," "basement-dweller!," "coronalarmist!," "delta-worshipper!" OP. I have stayed away from the board for a few days because there is too much denial bullshit, and even this thread, because I can't stand the derailing bullshit, but here's a news article for you.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/569614-childrens-hospitals-plead-biden-for-immediate-help-in-capacity-crisis

Children's hospitals plead Biden for 'immediate help' in 'capacity crisis'

At Children’s Hospital New Orleans, where the intensive care unit has been jammed with Covid-19 patients, scenes like this have played out unrelentingly over the past month. Nurses raced around monitoring one gut-wrenching case after another. One child was getting a complicated breathing treatment known as ECMO, a last resort after ventilators fail, which nurses said was almost unheard-of for pediatric cases. About a half-dozen others were in various stages of distress.

“We all thought, ‘Well, thankfully it’s not happening to the kids; none of us would be able to stomach that,’” said Mark Melancon, a longtime nurse at the hospital, recalling previous stages of the coronavirus pandemic. “Fast forward to now, and it’s happening with the kids.”



As children’s hospitals in many parts of the United States admit more Covid-19 patients, a result of the highly contagious Delta variant, federal and state health officials are grappling with a sharp new concern: children not yet eligible for vaccination in places with substantial viral spread, now at higher risk of being infected than at any other time in the pandemic. Nowhere is that worry greater than in Louisiana, which has among the highest new daily case rates in the country and only 40 percent of people are fully vaccinated, putting children at particular risk as they return to school.

Mr. Melancon said that until this summer, the hospital had treated only one or two Covid-19 patients at a time. Now, a procession of patients require constant attention, their oxygen levels often dipping precariously low without maximum intervention.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it absolutely certain that pfizer will give 5-11 yr olds 10 mcg? Or is it a good chance they will stick with the 30mcg dose like for everyone else so far? Because there is so much more data for that dose? Has there been any evidence that the 5-11 yr olds already in the trial who got the 30 mcg did poorly? I thought the myocarditis was just in older than 12yr old boys?

there’s zero way I’m giving my 9 yr old boy the adult dosage.

Because you know so much more than those who determine dosing guidelines?

There was a meme about how parents who complain about how 5th grade math is too complicated for them suddenly becoming experts in infectious disease and virology.

Anonymous wrote:I have not read through the entire thread. My almost 12y old boy is going to get vaccinated soon. He had costochondritis in the past. Is that a risk factor for myocarditis?