Posted on 01/24/2022 11:25:00 AM PST by BenLurkin
Young children — those younger than 5 — have been newly hospitalized with COVID-19 at higher rates than at any point in the pandemic, according to federal data. Health officials say the rising numbers among children are the result of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, which is much more easily transmitted than earlier strains of the coronavirus.
Rachel was emblematic of a common occurrence amid the latest surge: She hadn’t come in for COVID-19. She landed here because of another ailment, and then ended up testing positive.
(There’s been no known transmission of COVID-19 between children and healthcare workers, according to hospital officials.)
Among those hospitalized with COVID-19 on Wednesday were babies with congenital disease, kids with underlying genetic disorders and others with cancer.
In the case of two children awaiting transplants, they were being treated with monoclonal antibodies — authorized for those 12 and older — to slow down the disease process and intravenous remdesivir to help clear it. They couldn’t get the transplant until they were coronavirus-negative.
Only those with the highest-risk underlying conditions are hospitalized for treatment — mainly severely immunodeficient children. The rest get hospitalized because they need support, such as oxygen and IV fluids.
Although there are more pediatric hospitalizations during this surge, Katz pointed out that they were coming in with COVID-19 and not for COVID-19. One of her patients had stepped on a piece of glass and come to the hospital, where she tested positive.
When children are admitted, their length of stay is typically short. At times they are kept only overnight or for a few days to get oxygen or other treatment.
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2 Billion children on ventilators——sorry, since typing this it’s now 3 billion children on ventilators.....
If you ain’t got it, go to the hospital and you’ll get it.
That is an interesting statement. If true, it suggests one or a combination of three things is true:
1) Very few children have enough of a case of COVID to be contagious.
2) PPE and procedures have improved enough for hospital personnel that they no longer get infected with COVID from any patient.
3) For some unknown reason kids don't transmit COVID like they do other airborne viruses.
“With covid” just means positive on one of those BS tests that are basically like flipping a coin. How many of those “with covid” are asymptomatic?
I would be very careful about believing Anything printed by the LA Times, They haven’t told the Truth in over 30 years about anything
More kids sick with Covid after vaccinations of children began, how interesting......
Well, that's an interesting non-denial denial...
Ask the hospital: Yes or no, has there been ANY nosocomial spread of the coof at the hospital?
I'd love to see the answer to that.
The question needs to be asked, is there something about covid that exasperates other ailments?
Even the patient who stepped on glass, that you would think is completely unrelated, might be related. What if she dropped something she wouldn’t have dropped had she not had covid. What if she would have paid more attention to where she was stepping had she not had covid.
I have an elderly uncle who fell “with covid” breaking his hip and causing internal bleeding “with covid”. But he probably wouldn’t have fell if he hadn’t been sick.
Had the little girl who stepped on the glass, instead had a knife thrown into her foot by a boy in the neighborhood. And the boy didn’t have covid. THAT would be completely unrelated.
And that actually happened to me when I was little. We were throwing knives and sticking them in the sand that covered the septic tank. And I missed and it stuck in this little neighborhood girl’s foot. I was mortified!!! Fortunately mom was an RN and care was quickly applied.
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4) Healthcare workers have had it before and cannot contract new COVID symptoms.
That's a good point, and relates to item 2. If prior COVID infection is preventing Omicron infections that is good news.
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