CHINA
This is a reminder not to dismiss the possibility of children getting severe illness.
“One patient with a complaint of “intermittent diarrhea, vomiting for 6 days, fever with shortness of breath for half a day” was referred to the Department of Critical Medicine, Wuhan Children’s Hospital, and was diagnosed with neonatal severe coronavirus pneumonia (NCP). Relevant databases such as China Knowledge Net, Weipu, Wanfang and other related databases were searched with the keywords of “new coronavirus pneumonia”, “children”, and “critical severity” as of February 8, 2020. No reports have been reported. This case is the first child with severe NCP in China. It started with gastrointestinal symptoms, early respiratory symptoms were not obvious, and rapidly progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, and acute renal failure. The patient was negative for nucleic acid test of 2019 new-type coronavirus (2019-nCoV) for 2 consecutive consecutive throat swabs. For severe suspected cases, it is recommended to take samples of the lower respiratory tract or repeat samples of the upper respiratory tract for testing. Continuous blood purification technology can be applied to the treatment of children with severe NCP as early as possible. “
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32135586#
“ This is a reminder not to dismiss the possibility of children getting severe illness.”
I’m convinced of something now that I didn’t believe before.
They, the denying masses, and large, certain groups of people among us, are going to hang on to their narratives till the bitter end.
If it was 10% kids die, they’d say it’s only 10%, media is stirring panic.
If they are used to seeing everything in terms of gender, race, or sexual identity, they are going to continue to see things and talk about things in that way no matter what happens.
Certain people are going to make it all about politics. You could have 50% death rate and they’d still be blaming the other side.
I could go on and on with examples.
It’s like they are the programmed characters in a video game. There is no reason behind the will, they just operate on the software program they are loaded with.
I’m glad I didn’t read this three days ago. My son had a puke virus and then fever. He hasn’t been exposed to Coronavirus, so I wasn’t overly concerned. I did look up the symptoms which did not include vomiting/diarrhea. His doctor immediately diagnosed him with the stomach bug which the doctor had experienced two days before. It’s not uncommon for children to experience vomiting when they have pneumonia with or without fever. One of my girls had walking pneumonia when she was in third grade. Her only symptom was vomiting. When the doctor listened to her lungs, she suspected pneumonia and sent us for xrays.
“One patient with a complaint of “intermittent diarrhea, vomiting for 6 days, fever with shortness of breath for half a day” was referred to the Department of Critical Medicine, Wuhan Children’s Hospital, and was diagnosed with neonatal severe coronavirus pneumonia”
So many newcomers here have denied children get sick and there’s no need for extra tp because no one gets diarrhea.
What I would like to see is death rates based on age for L-CoV only.