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Anonymous wrote:For all those who keep saying kids don't get it, kids don't die from it here is a wake up data...

The mortality in the 0 to 9 years old is zero.
The mortality in the age group 9 to 19 is NOT ZERO, it is 0.2 %... that is not nothing.. that is 2 people in 1000.

Let me bring it home for you:

MCPS has how many students?: 162,680

With this in mind.. remember 2 kids in one thousand would die.. potentially.. So if we have 162 thousands students..
and all or the most vulnerable will get sick then potentially the loss of life can be as great as 324.

Considering all children with immune issues, I am pretty sure you will easily find 324 kids needing nebulizer. It is
not that all kids will get sick but chances are the ones with already underlying problems might.

So NOT zero but 324 children's lives are at stake..

Whoever tells you there is no risks.. kindly share the table:..



WHO CDC and other institutions supporting this data site and providing all the info that is in the cited source:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

so you're saying......there's a chance to reduce some overcrowding?

Not funny.

Yeah, let's not joke about kids dying.

To the jokester -- this is distasteful.

Anonymous wrote:According to the press conference, they returned on Feb. 20, showed symptoms on March 3, were tested on the 4th, and then confirmed for COVID-19 on the 6th. The only good news is that the test seemed to have turned around quickly.

Now they are trying to retrace what the three did and where they went on a daily basis for the two weeks they were in the area.

Anonymous wrote:According to the press conference, they returned on Feb. 20, showed symptoms on March 3, were tested on the 4th, and then confirmed for COVID-19 on the 6th. The only good news is that the test seemed to have turned around quickly.

Now they are trying to retrace what the three did and where they went on a daily basis for the two weeks they were in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:The article I read states that the three cases are NOT community transmission and that these people got back from international travel on March 3. They were tested on March 4th. This really doesn't sound like it's too much of a concern.

Link?

I read they were back days earlier.

I hope this is correct. This is why the state should not hide details from the public. People tend to fill in the gaps on their own, and that's normal

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Anonymous wrote:Why aren't we doing telework and closing schools in the DMV? It's like people are closing their eyes and ears and trying to wish this away. If something isn't done immediately our health care system will be overrun. And don't tell me this is just a cold. They don't shut down the economy of China for a cold. It's like we're saying we're fine with thousands dying.

We should be teleworking. I'm not sure what the government is waiting for. I'm guessing a large chunk of government employees take the metro. Why would they want people on crowded metro cars at this point. Let people telework at least for the next month until they have a better sense of how wide spread this is. The federal government's response has been slow on all fronts, basically passing up the window of opportunity for containment. We can fully shut down the government for a month for a wall that will never be built, but we can't authorize telework to stop deaths and our healthcare system from being overwhelmed? Tell government employees to telework and limit social contact, and focus our resources on testing retirement homes and having plans to help those most vulnerable.

You know there are several huge agencies that have no one who can telework, right? Don't generalize about what the federal government writ large can do.

This is not all or nothing. They should tell those who can telework to telework.

+1. If I had to go in, I certainly would prefer less commuters around me. Luckily, my agency already waived their rules regarding telework, so we can take if needed.

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That guy said he didn't take the medicine the doctor prescribed for it, so we don't know how he would have done if he had taken the medication.

I don't understand your point. It was an antibiotic and he had a virus. The only way the antibiotic would help is if his pneumonia became a bacterial infection. The fact that he recovered from his severe pneumonia is probably due to his healthy immune system. Has nothing to do with whatever he was prescribed or not.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513286/

"Most current evidence indicates the frequent existence of concomitant bacterial types of pneumonia. The prototypical example is the observation that the majority of mortality during the 1917-1918 influenza pandemic was secondary to bacterial pneumonia, superimposed on the initial influenza pneumonia.[13][14][15]"

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Anonymous wrote:The death rate of 0.2% for the 9-19 year age group is only for reported cases, not the entire population. It excludes those who do not get it or who are not diagnosed as they only develop mild symptoms. The following opinions from various experts may be a little reassuring.

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-who-director-generals-comments-that-3-4-of-reported-covid-19-cases-have-died-globally/

And now add smoking and vaping in US in the exact group.. your stats will go through the roof. Kids in other countries do not vape like chimneys..

And childhood obesity rates in America.

And nutritionally depraved poor kids...

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just let kids without a PC or iPad at home check out chrome books?

There aren't enough in many cases. MCPS isn't a 1-1 system across the board.

Plan A.
Bill Gates loves schools, he will lift a sofa cushion, scrap the change and in one handful he can provide enough chrome books for all disadvantage students.

Plan B..
Every kid has a phone, EVERY KID,
May we legislate the tax break for Verizon and the likes to give free plans for kids in needs!

Plan C
Lets use lokal tv channels to adnMinister classes on the air. One teacher can teach thousands the same lesson. Kids do paperwork at home and via email.

Cute that you think every kid has a smart phone. Most poor kids don’t or they have extremely limited data plans. How does it help avoid community spread if the kids from the apartments around Kennedy HS are all clustered at McDonald’s trying to use the free WiFi?

See plan B. Remember Obamaphone?

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Anonymous wrote:This is a young, healthy guy and C19 sounds AWFUL

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8075633/F...-25-describes-coronavirus.html

Yes, it is awful. The scary part is his ordeal was “mild”. Those with severe symptoms end up in the ICU.

Thanks for this link.

Hot tip: unless you’re in a public place and worried about spewing germs everywhere: DO NOT TRY TO SUPPRESS A COUGH if you can cough up phlegm or mucus. Sorry for the all-caps but leaving junk in your lungs can lead to pneumonia, in the case of any bronchial infection. In the hospital after surgery they give you these breathing things to get your lungs to full capacity. Once I had pre-pneumonia junk in my lungs and the nurses made me use that thing a lot (sorry I forget the name). It hurt like hell because I had just had major abdominal surgery. But I coughed it all up and I was no longer trending toward pneumonia.

Not saying this is a sure way to prevent pneumonia but people should know that suppressing coughs an be really bad.

I had pneumonia from the flu once (I have asthma too) and the doctors all said to not suppress the cough. I took Mucinex (EXPECTORANT ONLY), 2x a day and I had saved that thing they give you in the hospital and used it hourly. I was on my nebulizer 2-3x a day, hot steamy showers 2x a day and contestant saline. Took about a month for me to fully recover. I was in bed for two of those weeks. I really don’t want pneumonia again so since I currently have a cold, I already started a low key version to keep it out of my chest.

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That guy said he didn't take the medicine the doctor prescribed for it, so we don't know how he would have done if he had taken the medication.

I don't understand your point. It was an antibiotic and he had a virus. The only way the antibiotic would help is if his pneumonia became a bacterial infection. The fact that he recovered from his severe pneumonia is probably due to his healthy immune system. Has nothing to do with whatever he was prescribed or not.

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Anonymous wrote:The death rate of 0.2% for the 9-19 year age group is only for reported cases, not the entire population. It excludes those who do not get it or who are not diagnosed as they only develop mild symptoms. The following opinions from various experts may be a little reassuring.

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-who-director-generals-comments-that-3-4-of-reported-covid-19-cases-have-died-globally/

And now add smoking and vaping in US in the exact group.. your stats will go through the roof. Kids in other countries do not vape like chimneys..

And childhood obesity rates in America.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a young, healthy guy and C19 sounds AWFUL

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8075633/F...-25-describes-coronavirus.html

Yes, it is awful. The scary part is his ordeal was “mild”. Those with severe symptoms end up in the ICU.

Thanks for this link.

Hot tip: unless you’re in a public place and worried about spewing germs everywhere: DO NOT TRY TO SUPPRESS A COUGH if you can cough up phlegm or mucus. Sorry for the all-caps but leaving junk in your lungs can lead to pneumonia, in the case of any bronchial infection. In the hospital after surgery they give you these breathing things to get your lungs to full capacity. Once I had pre-pneumonia junk in my lungs and the nurses made me use that thing a lot (sorry I forget the name). It hurt like hell because I had just had major abdominal surgery. But I coughed it all up and I was no longer trending toward pneumonia.

Not saying this is a sure way to prevent pneumonia but people should know that suppressing coughs an be really bad.

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Anonymous wrote:The article I read states that the three cases are NOT community transmission and that these people got back from international travel on March 3. They were tested on March 4th. This really doesn't sound like it's too much of a concern.

Link?

I read they were back days earlier.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just let kids without a PC or iPad at home check out chrome books?

There aren't enough in many cases. MCPS isn't a 1-1 system across the board.

Plan A.
Bill Gates loves schools, he will lift a sofa cushion, scrap the change and in one handful he can provide enough chrome books for all disadvantage students.

Plan B..
Every kid has a phone, EVERY KID,
May we legislate the tax break for Verizon and the likes to give free plans for kids in needs!

Plan C
Lets use lokal tv channels to adnMinister classes on the air. One teacher can teach thousands the same lesson. Kids do paperwork at home and via email.

Cute that you think every kid has a smart phone. Most poor kids don’t or they have extremely limited data plans. How does it help avoid community spread if the kids from the apartments around Kennedy HS are all clustered at McDonald’s trying to use the free WiFi?