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-Short Attention Span Theater-
A Third of COVID Cases in Dallas County Are Children
2022-09-09
A followup to yesterday's article - Only 2% of Dallas Kids Have Taken the Jab
[Dallas Morning News] More than 3,465, or 33%, of the county’s 10,538 cases are in children ages 0 to 17. Cases in school age groups have rapidly increased in the last two weeks, jumping 75% for adolescents ages 14 to 17 from the week ending Aug. 26 to the week ending Sept. 1 and 61% for children ages 5 to 13 in that same time period.
Back to school, spreading infection.
While pediatric COVID-19 cases are climbing, other age groups have been trending downward for the last month following an early summer surge in cases led by the highly-contagious omicron subvariants.
Total US seven-day average cases are half what they were a month ago.
It’s too soon to tell whether North Texas will see another winter spike in COVID-19 cases like the area did last year with the emergence of the omicron variant, Chang said, but it seems likely that the flu will be stronger this year compared to the last two years of the pandemic as public health measures like masking ease.
But we can plant the seed of fear today.
Flu shots are available, and it is safe to get a flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine together.
Influenza deaths were hundreds per week before COVID and have been tens per week ever since May 2020 - even as masking restrictions were relaxed.
Posted by:Bobby

#5  total new cases reported are down from a month ago

but that may be because a lot of new cases aren't being reported - in fact, if a 15 year old has the sniffles and tests positive, the only thing that happens when you report is you get lots of texts, emails and phone calls from health dept telling you stuff you already know
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-09-09 17:55  

#4  Been the question since week 0 of 2 weeks to flatten the curve.

Very tempting to fall into a game of Red Car.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-09 11:32  

#3  This is either an unprecedented tragedy or no big deal, depending on what the meaning of "cases" is. Does "cases" mean admissions to the ICU or does it mean showed a positive test result without actually being sick?
Posted by: SteveS   2022-09-09 11:23  

#2  But not for children 0-5.

But not for children 0-5, right?

I scanned the source article in a fruitless search for any mention of recent deaths (at any age) due to Covid-19.

I understand the guidelines are that it is a Covid death if the patient drops dead due to heart failure. Otherwise, it is with a covid, because the vaxx reduces symptoms and has electrolytes.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-09 10:44  

#1  I scanned the source article in a fruitless search for any mention of recent deaths (at any age) due to Covid-19. Deaths were not mentioned at all! Summit County in NE OH has several weeks in the last few months with no deaths, news the local media either doesn't mention, or lists at the very end of a long article. One might think the absence of deaths more newsworthy, but one would be wrong.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342   2022-09-09 10:34  

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