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| haxxiy said: 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. |
Yep, it's simply too early to tell what the real lasting effects are or can be. We suspect my wife had Covid in Februari 2020 and she finally got her sense of smell back about a month or two ago. Maybe the vaccines fixed it lol.
Anyway the headlines are no fun
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canada-on-course-for-worst-wave-of-covid-19-yet-new-modelling-data-shows-1.5572673
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/more-surgeries-postponed-in-alberta-because-of-jump-in-covid-19-1.5572886
But indeed there is no actual rise in child cases (percentage wise), there is simply a rise in total cases sending more unvaccinated kids to the hospitals
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/more-kids-hospitalized-with-covid-19-in-u-s-states-with-lower-vaccination-rates-cdc-report-finds-1.5573431
However, the study added: "The proportions of hospitalized children and adolescents with severe disease were similar before and during the period of Delta predominance."
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky highlighted the studies Thursday in the White House COVID-19 briefing, saying they showed children were not getting more severe disease from the Delta variant. "And although we are seeing more cases in children, and more overall cases, these studies demonstrated that there was not increased disease severity in children. Instead, more children have COVID-19 because there is more disease in the community," she said.
Still not all that re-assuring when overall cases keep going up. And here we get vague guidelines like, pls everyone reduce your contacts by 25% to prevent the wave from getting too big.
Tam also called on all Canadians to limit their contacts as summer comes to a close, sending many back to schools and workplaces. "Right now is not the time to gather in huge numbers with people that are not in your household, without taking significant layers of protection," she said.
And what do we have here in our small town, the annual fairgrounds fair, packed, from Sept 2 to Sept 6 (Labour day weekend) and schools start on the 7th. That's stuff for a stand-up comedy routine :(
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/come-out-and-have-fun-paris-fall-fair-welcomes-back-guests-in-2021-1.5572298
They put some signs up to pls wear a mask. I cycled by there this afternoon. I did see some people with masks, maybe 5%.
Miller said usually over the five days of the event about 50,000 people pass through. With it being the first year back, he just hopes to reach half of that number. (Population of our town is about 13,000)
I emailed the school with my concerns (Their getting ready for September page is also still not live) dunno whether I should send them to school or keep them home next Tuesday. It will likely be fine, but it only takes a few contagious people to turn that up there into a super spreader event. Then again, we are vaccinated now (and not too long ago for it to be waning off already) and the kids will most likely be fine even if they catch it. And thus we keep going in circles...
