Depressing: Nearly one-third of children tested for COVID in Florida are positive.

[kpete]

Nearly one-in-three children tested for the new coronavirus in Florida has been positive, and a South Florida health official is concerned the disease could cause lifelong damage even for children with mild illness.

Dr. Alina Alonso, Palm Beach County’s health department director, warned county commissioners Tuesday that much is unknown about the long-term health consequences for children who catch COVID-19

X-rays have revealed the virus can cause lung damage even in people without severe symptoms, she said.

“They are seeing there is damage to the lungs in these asymptomatic children. ... We don’t know how that is going to manifest a year from now or two years from now,” Alonso said. “Is that child going to have chronic pulmonary problems or not?”

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-pbc-health-director-covid-children-20200714-xcdall2tsrd4riim2nwokvmsxm-story.html

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Horrible.

[Totally Tunsie]

2. Wow.

But sun and heat are going to chase this virus away - right?

[Initech]

3. Yeah let's reopen schools, what could go wrong?

[Nevilledog]

5. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion, isn't it?

[Initech]

11. That's what this entire year has been like.

[tanyev]

12. I saw an earlier thread here comparing it to being an adult tied up in a chair,

watching a three year old play with a loaded handgun.

[Nevilledog]

13. Ha! Perfect.

[Blue_true]

20. Too late. We are already in the train wreck. Now we are looking at another train barreling toward

us, as we sit trapped and helpless.

[Nevilledog]

22. And it's full of children.

[Blue_true]

25. Unfortunately so. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. It could go as badly wrong as when Israel opened the schools. . . . nt

[abqtommy]

4. I wish I could go back to living in virus ignorance when we were told that there were no

fatalities among children. Reality surely does bite... Now let's work together to beat this virus and
the low life politicians that support it...

[RockRaven]

6. Didn't all these Repukes/RWNJs insist that kids don't catch/spread it?

It's almost like the Cons and Trumpists are full of shit!

[Yavin4]

8. DeSantis

[cry baby]

9. Depressing indeed.

The grief is very heavy on my heart. The outlook for our near future is bleak.

These kids may have issues from covid19 for years to come.

[still_one]

10. Perhaps the voters of Florida should consider a recall of the governor

[rzemanfl]

14. I believe there is no recall here. n/t

[still_one]

15. Too bad

[rzemanfl]

16. Indeed. n/t

[Blue_true]

21. We don't have that law.

My fear is that Biden will have things rolling by 2022 when DeSantis runs for re-election and he will claim credit for things being better. And many here will buy that claim.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. But, but the GOP said that children weren't susceptible to this virus.

[MerryBlooms]

18. What I've noticed in the Oregon guidelines, is a muddled mess.

The districts need to make the guidelines a clean 1 -2 - 3. Trying to figure out the crap they're putting online is brain drain. I have been doing searches for an hour, and if I were debating to send my kid to school, fuck that, no way. Hopefully parents are getting emails that are clear and concise, because the trash online is useless.

[GulfCoast66]

19. Context is important. They are not randomly testing kids.

Only people concerned generally about having it are being tested.

And if mom or dad has it chances are their 2 kids do as well.

It’s a self selecting group.

[greenjar_01]

23. 33% positivity is pretty high regardless of the self-selection

[GulfCoast66]

24. Oh, I agree. But we are high as a state overall.