05-17-2022, 10:38 AM
I didn't see this widely reported. "Following the Coachella Valley Music and Arts and Stagecoach country music festivals, which took place over three consecutive weekends in April, Riverside County is reporting a substantial jump in coronavirus infections. COVID-19 cases have increased 736% in the region around the Empire Polo Club in Indio, the venue where the festivals were held, since May 1, according to the Desert Sun. Hospitalizations are also on the rise, according to the report. There were 62 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the region as of Friday, up 12 from Tuesday."
If you look at the report of the American Academy of Pediatrics, you will see that all the early B.S. about kids not getting COVID or not spreading COVID was invalid. The cases are running currently and overall about 19% of the adult cases. It isn't clear to me how much that depends upon surveillance methods applied to the two groups. If one state reports a higher percentage of child cases, is that just a result of their relative surveillance?Â
For children, during the pandemic there have been 17.5 reports of cases for every 100 children. I am quite certain that the real number of cases is much higher, but the AAP doesn't show any antibody testing results.Â
While there was news about passing 1M deaths in the US, I didn't hear about the US passing 1000 deaths of children due to COVID just a couple of weeks before.Â
There have been nearly 40,000 child hospitalizations due to COVID. The percentage of children hospitalized relative to adults has been growing steadily since vaccines became available for adults. (In the 25 states & NYC that report numbers, last week there were 3,962 new hospitalizations of which 182 were children (4.6%).)
If you look at the report of the American Academy of Pediatrics, you will see that all the early B.S. about kids not getting COVID or not spreading COVID was invalid. The cases are running currently and overall about 19% of the adult cases. It isn't clear to me how much that depends upon surveillance methods applied to the two groups. If one state reports a higher percentage of child cases, is that just a result of their relative surveillance?Â
For children, during the pandemic there have been 17.5 reports of cases for every 100 children. I am quite certain that the real number of cases is much higher, but the AAP doesn't show any antibody testing results.Â
While there was news about passing 1M deaths in the US, I didn't hear about the US passing 1000 deaths of children due to COVID just a couple of weeks before.Â
There have been nearly 40,000 child hospitalizations due to COVID. The percentage of children hospitalized relative to adults has been growing steadily since vaccines became available for adults. (In the 25 states & NYC that report numbers, last week there were 3,962 new hospitalizations of which 182 were children (4.6%).)