US, 20% of cases in under 18s
Cases
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Hospitalizations
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Florida, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi
Vaccinations
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In children
7.1 million fully vaccinated, 12 to 17s
representing 39 % of 16- to 17-year-olds
and 27 % of 12 to 15s
Pentagon
Mandatory vaccination for 2 million
Texas
Hospitals at capacity
Florida
Cases + 22,903 (a pandemic high)
179 pediatric patients
K – 12 opens today
Governor, no mandates in the state of Florida
(Arizona, Texas)
CDC, 27th July, everyone should wear masks in schools
Any school superintendent that mandates masks risks losing their salary
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Paediatricians disagree
Dr Aileen Marty, Florida International University
our children's hospitals are completely overwhelmed
Our pediatricians, the nursing staff, are exhausted, and the children are suffering
It is absolutely devastating
Our children are very much affected
We've never seen numbers like this before
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Pfizer and Moderna, vaccines for 5 – 11 years olds by end on the year
US
Children in hospital, 1,450
400 child deaths from covid so far, (34 to 200 die from seasonal flu each year)
Last 7 days, 94,000 child cases last week
Dr Mark Kline, Children's Hospital New Orleans
I've never seen anything like it
We are seeing children fall ill that we just simply didn't see in the first year of the pandemic, before the delta variant came along
Child admissions, zero to 20 in two weeks
Illness duration in children of at least 28 days
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77 (4·4%) children
59 (5·1%) older children
18 (3·1%) of 588 younger children
Commonest symptoms, first 4 weeks of illness
Fatigue 84·4%
Headache 77·9%
Anosmia 77·9%
Symptoms for at least 56 in children
1·8% of 1,379 children
UK
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Hospitalisations in under 18s, 278 per week
Alasdair Munro, paediatric registrar, University Hospital Southampton
We are extremely busy in the children’s emergency department with Respiratory Syncytial Virus and norovirus among other things, but are still seeing very few cases of Covid-19
Australia
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Locally acquired Cases, + 379
Current active cases, 5,333
Currently hospitalised, 432
