No info is posted about COVID hospitalizations among children:
Children 5 -17 yrs: U.S.
↗️ COVID Hospitalizations
While other age groups are seeing a decline in hospitalizations, school-age children's hospitalization levels are back up to late December/early January levels.
Why is this happening?
Due to the transmission in classrooms and homes.
Although we don't see the exponential growth resume after winter break by looking at wastewater and hospitalization data that encompasses all ages, we do see it in the
air sampling & PCR testing studies, and this hospitalization data. After the initial decline from winter break, by mid-January, the hospitalizations started increasing again.
Together, they show us that COVID is spreading in schools and that it leads to preventable acute illness, #LongCOVID, and hospitalizations.
Completely astonished that 20 to upwards of 30 percent of those surveyed had not heard of long COVID. That's an astonishing level of collective ignorance that we will be paying for as a society for decades to come, unless better treatments become more widely available and quickly.
I find it very telling that COVID-19, the continuously leading cause of death by an infectious disease in the United States, only receives a few sentences at the end your report, whereas the infinitesimal amount of measles is up front and centered with several paragraphs. You cite a “lack of trust” as one contributing factor and I urge you to look in the mirror for an answer as to why nobody takes these public health threats seriously anymore. If 1,000 Americans are dying every week of COVID, and nobody with a platform in public health does anything to sound the alarm and advocate for mitigation (and in your case, rationalize the reduction of mitigations,) why the hell do you think they will care about any other diseases?!
Something worth mentioning with poor vaccine uptake is the method of distribution and lack of oversight therof. My husband and I dutifully scheduled our booster (maybe we've had7-8 Covid shots now) with CVS two weeks ago. We went this morning at the scheduled time (after numerous reminder texts) only to get to the pharmacy desk and be told ‘we’re out of pfizer, call back tomorrow’. There a
Was a large sign that said ‘WALK INS WELCOME’. So I guess they gave our shots away and forgot to tell us.
Hell of a way to manage a vaccine fatigued population but a good explaination of poor vaccine uptake. We’ll go back, but so many will or can not.
Let’s give CVS and Walgreens credit for mismanaging distribution.
Thanks for providing an avenue for my frustrations.
Invaluable, as always. So grateful to you for all you do. Very worrying about measles, covid vax uptake, and decreasing vax uptake generally. These are worrisome times, for sure.
Meanwhile, we're on track to miss another opportunity to promote childhood vaccination in the U.S. The expanded child tax credit passed by an overwhelming margin in the House. It's currently stalled in the Senate. This would be a golden opportunity to follow Australia's lead, and introduce a "no jab no pay" policy - make any expanded child tax credit contingent on making sure your kids are caught up on all their recommended vaccines.
@DM. Unfortunately on both left and right you find a lot of anti vaxxers. Neither Trump nor Biden fall into that category. But RFKJr, erstwhile Dem, does, as one example.
We have to ask why there has been such widespread distrust in the vaccine. In part it is due to the awful messaging from the govt, for example, Fauci’s pronouncement that masks were useless, something he knew to be a lie, and which in the end he had to take back. The same problem exists with our msm which has told big lies repeatedly, eg., WMD in Iraq. What effect do you suppose that has on credibility in other areas?
An enthusiastic thank you from a (fairly) knowledgeable subscriber. I like to keep up with many aspects of biology (my major at UC Davis); your postings help me do so.
If you want to get Republicans to get the vaccine for Covid, then remind them that Trump’s “Warp Speed” initiative sped up the development and deployment of the vaccines.
This is not done by the media, I presume, because it might promote Trump. But public health - and the truth, so often sacrificed to politics by bot Parties in the US in this pandemic, are more important.
just a big thank you for all the information you give us that no one else is supplying
I rely on your reporting to access risk factors
No info is posted about COVID hospitalizations among children:
Children 5 -17 yrs: U.S.
↗️ COVID Hospitalizations
While other age groups are seeing a decline in hospitalizations, school-age children's hospitalization levels are back up to late December/early January levels.
Why is this happening?
Due to the transmission in classrooms and homes.
Although we don't see the exponential growth resume after winter break by looking at wastewater and hospitalization data that encompasses all ages, we do see it in the
air sampling & PCR testing studies, and this hospitalization data. After the initial decline from winter break, by mid-January, the hospitalizations started increasing again.
Together, they show us that COVID is spreading in schools and that it leads to preventable acute illness, #LongCOVID, and hospitalizations.
YLE, we are looking forward to your take on Spring booster for senior citizens.
Measles? Measles?!? How is it we are talking about a measles outbreak in 2024!?! Misinformation is its own epidemic ...
Completely astonished that 20 to upwards of 30 percent of those surveyed had not heard of long COVID. That's an astonishing level of collective ignorance that we will be paying for as a society for decades to come, unless better treatments become more widely available and quickly.
Your posts are invaluable.
I find it very telling that COVID-19, the continuously leading cause of death by an infectious disease in the United States, only receives a few sentences at the end your report, whereas the infinitesimal amount of measles is up front and centered with several paragraphs. You cite a “lack of trust” as one contributing factor and I urge you to look in the mirror for an answer as to why nobody takes these public health threats seriously anymore. If 1,000 Americans are dying every week of COVID, and nobody with a platform in public health does anything to sound the alarm and advocate for mitigation (and in your case, rationalize the reduction of mitigations,) why the hell do you think they will care about any other diseases?!
We don't hear about new Covid variants anymore. Has the virus stopped mutating significantly? Has research into the virus stopped?
Something worth mentioning with poor vaccine uptake is the method of distribution and lack of oversight therof. My husband and I dutifully scheduled our booster (maybe we've had7-8 Covid shots now) with CVS two weeks ago. We went this morning at the scheduled time (after numerous reminder texts) only to get to the pharmacy desk and be told ‘we’re out of pfizer, call back tomorrow’. There a
Was a large sign that said ‘WALK INS WELCOME’. So I guess they gave our shots away and forgot to tell us.
Hell of a way to manage a vaccine fatigued population but a good explaination of poor vaccine uptake. We’ll go back, but so many will or can not.
Let’s give CVS and Walgreens credit for mismanaging distribution.
Thanks for providing an avenue for my frustrations.
Great info as always, thank you! Any info on the efficacy of the Novavax vaccine?
Invaluable, as always. So grateful to you for all you do. Very worrying about measles, covid vax uptake, and decreasing vax uptake generally. These are worrisome times, for sure.
Meanwhile, we're on track to miss another opportunity to promote childhood vaccination in the U.S. The expanded child tax credit passed by an overwhelming margin in the House. It's currently stalled in the Senate. This would be a golden opportunity to follow Australia's lead, and introduce a "no jab no pay" policy - make any expanded child tax credit contingent on making sure your kids are caught up on all their recommended vaccines.
@DM. Unfortunately on both left and right you find a lot of anti vaxxers. Neither Trump nor Biden fall into that category. But RFKJr, erstwhile Dem, does, as one example.
We have to ask why there has been such widespread distrust in the vaccine. In part it is due to the awful messaging from the govt, for example, Fauci’s pronouncement that masks were useless, something he knew to be a lie, and which in the end he had to take back. The same problem exists with our msm which has told big lies repeatedly, eg., WMD in Iraq. What effect do you suppose that has on credibility in other areas?
Doing a bit of Geneology this evening, one of my ancestors:
Born: 20 December, 1892
Died: 23 April, 1918 (25 years, 4 months, 4 days)
Death was due to measles and pneumonia.
Why people want to go back to burying their children is a mystery to me.
An enthusiastic thank you from a (fairly) knowledgeable subscriber. I like to keep up with many aspects of biology (my major at UC Davis); your postings help me do so.
If you want to get Republicans to get the vaccine for Covid, then remind them that Trump’s “Warp Speed” initiative sped up the development and deployment of the vaccines.
This is not done by the media, I presume, because it might promote Trump. But public health - and the truth, so often sacrificed to politics by bot Parties in the US in this pandemic, are more important.