More Children Are Hospitalized With Covid-19, and Doctors Fear It Will Get Worse
Source: WSJ
Hospitals in the South and Midwest say they are treating more children with Covid-19 than ever and are preparing for worse surges to come.
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Children under age 12 aren’t yet eligible to be vaccinated, and vaccination rates for those between 12 and 17 remain relatively low, according to data compiled by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Although children are much less likely than adults to develop severe Covid-19 or die from the virus, recent data from the Department of Health and Human Services show pediatric hospitalizations for Covid-19 are at the highest point since the agency began tracking them last year, driven by states that have been hit hard by the Delta variant.
Children’s hospitals are bracing for even more cases as schools reopen. They are hiring more nurses, reworking discharge protocols, speeding up room cleanings, laying contingency plans to expand bed capacity and preparing staff for an uptick in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C. A rare condition that can occur several weeks after Covid-19 infection, MIS-C can lead to organ damage or even death without the proper diagnosis and management.
Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., has admitted more than 450 children with Covid-19 since the pandemic began. Ninety-six admissions were in July, nearly double the hospital’s worst month previously, in January. August is on track to be just as bad, according to Mobeen Rathore, Wolfson’s chief of infectious diseases. About 55% of admissions have been children under 12 years old, he said; of those over the age of 12, none was vaccinated. Four children admitted with Covid-19 during the pandemic have died. The mix of children who were otherwise healthy and those who have underlying issues hasn’t changed markedly, he said.
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How in the hell did that happen? His neighbors all say they were surprised to hear of his crimes because he always seemed like such a nice person. DeSantis, himself, seems mentally unstable, denying his crimes, saying his victims had the freedom to take precautions against his actions if they so chose and, therefore, the thousands of people he is known to have killed did so with full knowledge of what he was doing.
The DOJ, of course, will soon show what kind of tolerance it has for mass murderers.
Won’t it?
