SvennoJ said:
Yeah that last part stood out to me as well, didn't expect that kind of writing from the otherwise level headed reporting.
I looked a bit deeper for actual numbers
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/children-hospitalized-with-covid-19-us-hits-record-number-2021-08-14/
The number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States hit a record high of just over 1,900 on Saturday, as hospitals across the South were stretched to capacity fighting outbreaks caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant.
That's still just 2.4% of total hospitalizations due to Covid-19
A bit more recent numbers
https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/
As of August 26, nearly 4.8 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic. About 204,000 cases were added the past week, marking the second week with child cases at the level of the winter surge of 2020-21. After declining in early summer, child cases have increased exponentially, with over a five-fold increase the past month, rising from about 38,000 cases the week ending July 22nd to nearly 204,000 the past week.
That is quite alarming but severe cases are still rare
At this time, it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is uncommon among children. However, there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts of the pandemic on children, including ways the virus may harm the long-term physical health of infected children, as well as its emotional and mental health effects.
Considering they're hesitant to give children the vaccine, just in case any long term effects might arise, it's rather odd to let them all get Covid-19 instead... |
It's just extremely odd reporting at times.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html
Looking at the headlines, you'd expect hell on Earth, but then the example was a children's hospital with 309 beds in Florida, of which 214 are occupied... and only 18 are Covid patients.
We also need to keep in mind that we should *not* expect people to quickly recover from any particularly nasty viral infection. Interestingly, in the past, the average answer to these long-term symptoms from respiratory infections was just "lol man, tough luck":
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/have-a-month-long-cold-it-s-probably-not-the-flu-1.3255473
Long Covid is a concern but I do feel like it needs a better, narrower definition. Otherwise, it will happen like MISC where Kawasaki Syndrome diagnoses simply were no longer a thing.
