The surge in new cases by no means just about how many people have been vaccinated. Read the OP. Plenty of vaccinated people are now getting COVID. If anything getting the booster shot may be needed.
So far it is less lethal. But will that change? And yeah. It’s more transmissible but doesn’t that also mean more pressure on the health care system. Let’s face it. This time it’s not the old people who are stacking up. It is the school kids.
We heaped Criticism on Nursing homes for how they handled COVID in the beginning…why shouldn’t we be heaping it on the school systems for failing now.
Come on Man…with all due respect. We did. These facilities were called out here for not taking mitigating factors quickly enough. They took in new residents with out testing. And these were not Cuomos nursing homes.
180,175 child COVID-19 cases were reported the past week from 8/12/21-8/19/21 (4,413,547 to 4,593,721) and children represented 22.4% (180,175/806,003) of the weekly reported cases
Over two weeks, 8/5/21-8/19/21, there was a 7% increase in the cumulated number of child COVID-19 cases (301,601 cases added (4,292,120 to 4,593,721))
22.4 percent of the weekly cases from the 12th to the 19th. That’s not nothing…an increase of 7 percent…in two weeks.
Last year child cases were almost non existent. In two weeks there was an additional 301,601 children with newly diagnosed COVID. That’s not nothing GW. It’s just not.