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Has Anyone Noticed Children

KarenQVC — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:50:04 GMT

around you getting covid? On MSNBC today Dr. Vin Gupta said now that school has opened in some high risk states that per capita more children are being hospitalized than adults. Sad.

I guess we knew very little about effects of the virus on children until we had them go back to school. Most other countries had the virus under control before they sent children out to school.

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BeeChee — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:57:32 GMT

Yes, I live in NC, and at the end of last week they released figures:

As July winds to a close, 13,084 kids under the age of 17 have tested positive for COVID-19 in North Carolina. That’s 11% of the overall cases in North Carolina, which is almost double the 6% of overall cases that were children back in late May.

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KarenQVC — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:09:30 GMT

@BeeChee I guess I am behind the times on this. It is the hospitalizations that worry me. What are we doing to the children?

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Dusty1 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:20:11 GMT

No. None of the children that I know that have gone back to school have gotten Covid.

None of the people that I know that are still working have gotten Covid.

The only person that I know that got Covid was my kids former pediatrician & he has recovered.

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PA Mom-mom — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:21:37 GMT

I live in SE PA and to date I do not know anyone who has contracted the virus.

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Lucky Charm — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:29:32 GMT

My 3 Nassau County, Long Island, NY grandchildren return to school tomorrow morning. I'm very scared for them.

My DDIL, who is a NYC school teacher was supposed to return, but it got pushed back.

Both are hot spots.

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qvcaddition — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:31:54 GMT

I see children in my neighborhood playing together outside everyday and not from the same family. They are playing basketball, riding skateboards, bikes, no mask, so I'm confused why they cannot go to school with safety precaustions.

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PreKteacher — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:44:37 GMT

No. I do know two children who had it in the spring and recovered, but I have not heard of any other children getting it. I am very suspicious of this report. There have been hundreds of thousands of childcare centers that have been open throughout this pandemic without incident. Yes, you can find stories of exceptions here and there, but the vast majority of children are benefitting from interaction with their peers and the risks are extremely low.

I am back in my classroom and loving it.

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red&curly — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:51:32 GMT

Hey @BeeCee I'm from NC also.Bout hr. from beach! HEY

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Oznell — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:53:44 GMT

As in some of the hard-hit areas in Europe and around the world, that have mostly resumed school, schools in our area have been watching the data, and trying to learn from the experiences of others in their re-opening plans.

There's no "one-size-fits-all", but a range of different options and contingency plans for different areas. We were badly affected at the beginning of the virus, with Covid patients being routed right into nursing homes, causing the deaths of many frail older patients. But since that fiasco, over time, the instances of new cases and the hospitalizations have been steadily declining.

I agree with the other parents who approve a thoughtful re-opening of schools, again with the ability to respond to conditions as they exist at any given time.

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willdob3 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:58:03 GMT

@KarenQVC

We actually knew enough to know better than to open schools up but, hey, you know how that goes.

Didn’t Dr G also say deaths of children are increasing?

It is just going to continue to get worse until we change what we are/aren’t doing.

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MarieIG — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 02:26:11 GMT

I know of, from their parents. In each of those cases, the entire family got it. The children are fine. One of my former co-workers I was particularly worried about because she has severe lupus. She was sick for about a week and then recovered. Her children had mild cases.

I know of a number of adults who did not recover. None of them however, were under fifty.

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Marp — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 02:32:18 GMT

@qvcaddition wrote:
I see children in my neighborhood playing together outside everyday and not from the same family. They are playing basketball, riding skateboards, bikes, no mask, so I'm confused why they cannot go to school with safety precaustions.

Many children in close proximity for extended periods of time in a closed environment to start.

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CrazyDaisy — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 02:52:50 GMT

While the number of new cases has shown a slight increase here the number of hospitalizations have dropped dramatically. The average age of new cases is now under 30. So not to concerned....

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HB glamma — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 02:58:36 GMT

I live in CA, don’t know anyone who had Covid
No one I know does either.

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kitcat51 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 03:06:31 GMT

no.

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KarenQVC — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 03:10:33 GMT

@willdob3 Did you hear the report with Dr. Gupta, too? I just remember the hospitalizations of children, not deaths. He may have said that.

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sunshine45 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 03:53:18 GMT

i dont know any children who have had the virus.

i know two older people that had the virus and recovered (a husband and wife.)

i know one older person who tested positive, but had no symptoms.

my daughter works in a longterm heathcare facility for the elderly and they have had zero cases since testing began months ago.

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skatting44 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:23:18 GMT

@BeeChee wrote:
Yes, I live in NC, and at the end of last week they released figures:
As July winds to a close, 13,084 kids under the age of 17 have tested positive for COVID-19 in North Carolina. That’s 11% of the overall cases in North Carolina, which is almost double the 6% of overall cases that were children back in late May.

Oaky , we all know that as more and more people - men , women and children are exposed to this virus more are goiung to test positive . That being said, and if the test methods have been reliable , than actually how many of those people including child actually have been ill enough to require medical treatment and/or hospitalization. Those are the numbers and facts that are not be reported to the American public consistently. Also, as we have learned there have been some labs cited as having problems with their testing methods and have reported False positive results ( ie news report recently abt atletes had tested positive and retested by another lab that showed their tests as negative).

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tobes — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 11:06:22 GMT

@KarenQVC Actually no one I know, child or adult, has or has died from COVID. The largest percentage of COVID in my state (Connecticut) occurred in nursing homes.)