As hospitalizations of children overwhelm pediatric ICUs -- all we hear from the Covid-deniers is that "Covid doesn't hurt children" and "Where are the child deaths". These clowns yammer the same nonsense continuously despite Covid having killed more children over the past two years worldwide than all the other childhood diseases combined. Nationwide increase in child COVID hospitalizations prompts worry in California as omicron surges https://abc7.com/covid-in-kids-california-omicron-vaccine-variant/11395307/ Omicron variant fills up children's hospitals https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-...s-12-28-21/h_db84dd80f454607a7a74981eb04de86b 'We have a responsibility': Local pediatrician alarmed to see child COVID-19 cases soar https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/we...ed-to-see-child-covid-19-cases-soar/20052767/
COVID-19 cases: NYC sees 4-fold increase in children hospitalized "The risks of COVID-19 for children are real," Acting State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said in a statement. "We are alerting New Yorkers to this recent striking increase in pediatric COVID-19 admissions so that pediatricians, parents and guardians can take urgent action to protect our youngest New Yorkers. We must use all available safe and effective infection control, prevention and mitigation strategies. Protect your children who are five years and older by getting them fully vaccinated and protect children under five by making sure all of those around them have protection through vaccination, boosters, mask-wearing, avoiding crowds and testing."
Vaccinating small kids who have the lowest risk by force as being done now can only have very bad consequences down the road. So far, the Moderna vaccine is causing myocarditis to those 30 years and below and healthy who got the vaccines. There is even a video on You Tube of supposedly, healthy teenagers and young adults playing basketball, soccer, etc. and dropping dead on the spot. What could the consequences be for children 5 and up? Yet, the parents allowed their young children to be vaccinated? Here is one more for our ET troll idiots who believe the vaccines are safe and no risk to those who take it?
smallfil the anti-vax ghoul, You're still posting misinformation / disinformation bullshit involving adult soccer (football) players in foreign countries in any thread about Pediatric Hospitalization from severe Covid illness. Here are a few surprises that I think you already know but don't give a shit that's in the Youtube vaccine anti-vax agenda... One shown soccer player has a history of seizures prior to Covid Pandemic. Two shown soccer players in the video were NEVER vaccinated. One shown soccer player had a known heart condition, and at the age of 15 even underwent surgery to help address it. In 2017, he suffered a blackout while playing for Argentina in a friendly match against Nigeria. One shown soccer player is an image of him when he suffered a leg injury in 2018. The guy that tackle him was given a red card. One shown player from Denmark suffered a cardiac arrest (not a heart attack) at the EURO championships on live TV. He was not vaccinated. After recovery from his cardiac arrest, he was fitted with an implantable device to monitor his heart rhythm considering there's a family history of the same problem in his family although he himself has no known history with heart problems. He plans to get the Covid vaccine. One shown player in the Youtube video died in a training practice in China...in 2017. Image in the video was from an actual soccer game against Arsenal...in 2016. The above is just a few truths left out of the bullshit misinformation/disinformation you've been posting here at ET and then trying desperately like some ghoul to equate adult professional soccer players in foreign soccer leagues to children here in North America Pediatric Hospitals from severe Covid illnesses even though many of the children also have other underlying medical conditions. We get it...you think kids are dropping dead from Covid vaccines here in North America and we understand your pathetic consistent attempt to ignore the astounding increase in Hospitalizations and ICU admissions in North America's Pediatric Hospitals. You have some serious mental problems. The fact that you continue posting that crap is the reason why I consisder you to be some sort'uv ghoul like Turveyd before he was banned for similar like bullshit along with him wishing death upon those that choose to be vaccinated. There's a current campaign to equip all professional soccer stadiums with defibrillators because cardiac arrests have been more common than usual since 2003. As a former athlete myself in rowing that competed internationally... Cardiac Arrests is one of the leading causes of deaths among young athletes that typically occurred as the result of a congeniality heart abnormality. Anti-vax asswipes has been using this info since the 1980's for their bullshit agendas. wrbtrader
Rising child hospitalizations loom large over US Covid-19 response Analysis by Paul LeBlanc, CNN Updated 4:11 PM ET, Tue December 28, 2021 Washington (CNN)Public health experts have sought for months to find the right message that will resonate with the many Americans who remain unconvinced about the very real danger of Covid-19. Nearly two years and some 800,000 deaths later, tens of millions remain unvaccinated while the use of masks and other simple mitigation measures still frequently falls along political party lines. But that dynamic has been built on top of an early pandemic premise: Children experience Covid-19 far differently from adults. While it's true that kids rarely get seriously sick from the virus, variants have shown -- in disturbing fashion -- that they can and do feel the effects of the pandemic. And Omicron is fueling a surge in child hospitalizations in a way we haven't seen before. Read this story from CNN's Maggie Fox and Jen Christensen. They write:A five-fold increase in pediatric admissions in New York City this month. Close to double the numbers admitted in Washington, DC. And nationwide, on average, pediatric hospitalizations are up 35% in just the past week. Take it from the doctors on the front lines quoted in the story: "It's almost like you can see the train coming down the track and you're just hoping it doesn't go off the rails," Dr. Claudia Hoyen, director of pediatric infection control at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, told CNN. "They're needing oxygen. They're needing some other assistance. Even if they're just really dehydrated, needing IV fluids, most of these kids that we're admitting for Covid are kids that have respiratory issues -- that they need oxygen and they need other support. So they're going to be pretty sick. You know, you don't see kids that are not very sick in the hospital," said Dr. Stanley Spinner, who is chief medical officer and vice president at Texas Children's Pediatrics & Urgent Care in Houston. "We are seeing pretty much every age group. We are seeing infants to older teenagers. It is definitely across the board," Dr. Jennifer Owensby of the pediatric critical care division at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School told CNN. "It's affecting larger communities and it's certainly affecting children in a way that we hadn't seen before. And that's new compared to last year," said Dr. Juan Salazar, physician in chief at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford. Will these grim dispatches represent a turning point in the pandemic? Could this be the inflection point wherein even skeptical Americans are convinced they need to take serious steps to protect our nation's children? That remains unclear. But, at least to this point in the pandemic, the Omicron surge has done little to shake the convictions of unvaccinated Americans. Vaccine hesitancy portends dark winter Since the variant was first detected in the US on December 1, vaccination rates have not increased in meaningful ways. And data about childhood vaccination concerns from last month isn't encouraging, either. Before the Omicron variant was detected -- but still with a screaming level of Delta transmission in the US-- a Kaiser Family Foundation survey conducted in mid-November found that most parents have concerns about the safety of Covid-19 vaccines for children, and about 3 in 10 say they will "definitely not" vaccinate their children against Covid-19. Parents who were less likely to be vaccinated themselves were also less likely to vaccinate their children, including among Republican parents, who were more likely than Democratic parents to say they would "definitely not" vaccinate their children against Covid-19 (50% vs. 7%). Also, most Republican parents (61%) said the vaccine poses a bigger risk to their children than becoming infected with Covid-19. Their hesitancy preceded the holiday gatherings, like those over Christmas and New Year's, that have some health care workers specifically worried about the impact on children in the coming weeks -- especially those who are too young to be vaccinated. "We've just had all of these kids mixing together with everybody else during Christmas," Hoyen said. "We have one more holiday to get through with New Year's, and then we'll be sending everybody back to school. Everybody is kind of waiting on the edge, wondering what we'll end up seeing." The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has publicly shared information about the safety of Covid-19 vaccines for children, including data that shows serious side effects are rare. But parents' trust in the CDC dropped from 66% in July to 57% in November, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation -- a decline that comes as some experts predict the US will soon blow past its record for daily new cases. "I think we're going to see half a million cases a day -- easy -- sometime over the next week to 10 days," CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner told CNN on Sunday. President Joe Biden has framed the coming months as bleak and dangerous for those who have forgone vaccination, warning earlier this month, "We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated -- for themselves, their families and the hospitals they'll soon overwhelm." If messages like that haven't resonated in the past, maybe the warnings from pediatric doctors will. "Perhaps it is more widely spread now that we've liberalized our social gatherings. Perhaps some of the masks have come off -- families are tired. They are not willing to undergo some of the strict isolation policies from a year ago," Salazar said. "And so that has allowed these new variants to spread more widely. And for that reason it's affecting kids, who at this point are the most at-risk population because they're not vaccinated, or many of them are not." https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/28/politics/covid-omicron-kids-hospitalizations-what-matters/index.html ---------- wrbtrader
Pediatric COVID-19 case rates, hospitalizations 'on fire' amid nation's latest surge More than 2,100 children are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. By Arielle Mitropoulos 28 December 2021, 15:54 With coronavirus cases in the U.S. approaching near-peak levels recorded last winter, pediatric coronavirus infection and hospitalization levels are now surging to their highest point in months. Last week, nearly 200,000 American children tested positive for COVID-19, up by about 50% since the beginning of December, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association. Hospitalizations among children have been rapidly following suit. Across the country, more than 2,100 children are currently hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 -- up by approximately 800 pediatric patients, compared to just a month ago, according to federal data. As a growing number of COVID-19 positive children are admitted into the hospital in need of care, health care workers and experts are sounding the alarm about the concerning trend. "Our most precious commodity in this United States of America is our children," Dr. Kenneth Remy, associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics critical care with UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, told ABC News. "And right now, we're on fire." Daily pediatric COVID-19 related hospital admissions have more than doubled in the last month, increasing by 110%. Now, an average of more than 300 children are being admitted to the hospital each day. According to the health experts, a confluence of factors have led to the surge. The initial catalyst was the delta variant, subsequently followed by the recently discovered omicron variant. Further, vaccination rates, particularly among the pediatric population, continue to lag, leaving many children vulnerable to severe illness. To date, less than a third of eligible children -- ages 5 to 17 -- have been fully vaccinated. 6 states report more than 100 children hospitalized with COVID-19 At the state level, more children are hospitalized with COVID-19 in New York than in any other state in the country, particularly in New York City, where children appear to be bearing the brunt of the state's latest surge in pediatric cases. In less than three weeks, New York City has seen a five-fold increase since the week of Dec. 5, Mary Bassett, the state health commissioner, reported during an update with Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday. "There's just no reason. We have the supply. We have the capacity. We have the staff in place for every child to be vaccinated, who is eligible," Hochul said, urging parents to use the winter break as a time to vaccinate their children. Six states – Georgia, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas – currently have more than 100 children hospitalized with COVID-19. In Pennsylvania, the PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia warned last week that it has seen a "sharp increase in test positivity" among children it has tested in the area. "These data support the fact that transmission is now increasing disproportionately among children compared to adults," the group wrote. "We are seeing cases of moderate to severe disease among hospitalized children, including otherwise healthy children, particularly those who have not been vaccinated." In Ohio, where more than 200 children are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, Dr. Adam Mezoff, chief medical officer at Dayton Children's Hospital, told ABC News that he has been concerned to see the recent increase in infected children. "It seems to be hitting younger age groups, at this time," Mezoff said, adding that he expects to see more hospitalizations to follow, given the infectivity of omicron. "How sick they become is hard to estimate right now, because we don't have enough information." Preliminary data from South Africa estimates that children had a 20% higher risk of hospitalization in the country's omicron-driven fourth wave, given the fact that so many children were still unvaccinated, and therefore, unprotected. "We have to keep an eye on that," Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the White House, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday. "That's one of the reasons why we say now that we have the capability and the authority to vaccinate children 5 to 11, that we're encouraging parents, that if you have a child from 5 to 11, please get that child vaccinated to prevent them from getting anything that even resembles a serious illness." Although severe illness due to COVID-19 remains "uncommon" among children, according to the AAP and CHA, experts stress that young people are not immune from the virus, or from severe illness and death. According to the CDC, children are as likely to be infected with COVID-19 as adults and the virus is now one of the top 10 causes of death for children ages 5 through 11 years. In Northeast Ohio, Remy said that what is happening in his hospital "is a reflection" of what is happening in the rest of the country for children, further rebutting the misconception that children are unaffected by COVID-19. "What we've seen over the past couple of weeks, sadly, is not even just a slow increase, but a direct shoot upward [trend] of children becoming ill from this disease, and coming into the ICU," Remy said. "Sadly, we've seen children at our institution and others, lose their lives. So we're in a different situation than we were many months ago." Mezoff said he worries that there will be a lot of sick children, and he is also deeply concerned that there will not be enough staff to take care of them. "The combination of large numbers of children that are sick with challenging staffing numbers does raise a lot of concern for us," Mezoff said. Remy added that he and his colleagues fear that more people, including children, will be coming into the hospital in the next few weeks into the intensive care units. "We're not just arcing upward. We are going straight upward," Remy said. "And suddenly over the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse, and so sadly, too many people are going to lose their lives." 'This is a no brainer' As the virus continues to spread, experts stress that vaccination remains the best tool to not only protect children from getting sick, but also to change the trajectory of the pandemic. "If I knew that there was a fire outside my house, I would make sure that I had extinguishers. I would make sure that I had a way out and an escape plan for my children," said Remy, using, once more, his blaze metaphor to explain the current crisis of the unfolding pandemic. "Right now … being on fire, we have something that could actually quench much of those flames." Mezoff noted that as of yet, Dayton's Children's Hospital has yet to care for a COVID-19 positive child who has been vaccinated. Getting boosted when eligible and wearing masks also remain key to protect those who are still too young to be vaccinated, Remy said. "We know that these things will quell those flames and protect our children. So to me, this is a no brainer," Remy said. "We only have one goal we've only had one goal and that's to improve the lives of children. That means keeping them alive." https://abcnews.go.com/Health/pedia...-hospitalizations-fire-amid/story?id=81955322 ---------- Parents with children need to get vaccinated including any other adults living in the same home...they need to get vaccinated as an extra layer of protection for their children especially if children in the home are not vaccinated. wrbtrader
Pediatrics association: Vast majority of US children admitted to hospitals with Covid-19 are unvaccinated https://www.cnn.com/webview/world/live-news/omicron-variant-coronavirus-news-12-30-21/index.html Dr. Lee Savio Beers, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, told CNN’s New Day Thursday that although they are still gathering the data, they are hearing from hospitals across the US that "the vast majority of the children who are being admitted are unvaccinated." "There’s small numbers who are vaccinated, but the vast majority are unvaccinated and so being unvaccinated increases your risk for hospitalization significantly," Beers said. Beers noted that at her own children's hospital in Washington, DC, they are at an all-time peak of Covid-19 hospitalizations and about half of the them are children under five. "I think it’s just so important for us to remember that we’re protecting ourselves, but we’re also protecting those little ones who aren’t yet eligible for vaccination," Beers told CNN. What the data is showing: US pediatric hospital admissions for Covid-19 are only 2.2% lower than their peak in early September, continuing a rapid increase since mid-December. On average, 334 children have been admitted to the hospital with Covid-19 on any given day over the week that ended Dec. 27, according to data published Wednesday from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Child hospitalizations are surging in this Chicago hospital. Only one of the young patients was fully vaccinated, doctor says https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/28/health/chicago-childrens-hospital-surge-doctor-vaccines/index.html