Shock Number: 61,000+ U.S. Kids Caught COVID-19 Last Week

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/61000-us-kids-caught-coronavirus-last-week?ref=home

Shock Number: 61,000+ U.S. Kids Caught COVID-19 Last Week
‘HORRIBLE TO EVEN WORSE’
Jamie Ross, Reporter
Updated Nov. 03, 2020 7:01AM ET /
Published Nov. 03, 2020 6:47AM ET
Reuters/Mike Blake

Remember in August when President Donald Trump claimed that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19? It wasn’t true then, and each week new figures are making the claim even more ridiculous. For example, last week, more than 61,000 children in the U.S. were diagnosed with COVID-19. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, that’s the highest weekly figure so far during the coronavirus pandemic. In total, at least 853,635 children have been diagnosed with the highly contagious virus in America this year and, as of late last week, 121 had died. “It just keeps going from from horrible to even worse,” said pediatric infectious-disease specialist Greg Demuri.

[SheltieLover]

1. What did they expect with schools opening?

Every year, we see the petri dish effect with the flu.

[gab13by13]

2. Kids are going back to school in person.

My grandson is going 4 days a week starting this week, outside Pittsburgh.

[Luciferous]

3. I work at a school and our numbers are going up a lot.

[2naSalit]

4. Seems to be a...

Trickle-down pathogen. Hits the elderly first and works its way through the population down to children eventually. Nobody is immune, really.

[keithbvadu2]

5. "Almost Nothing" acc to the Trumps. No big deal to them.

[malaise]

6. But but but

Killa Con said this would not happen

[Klaralven]

7. The grandkids are in hybrid programs - so far so good at their schools

2-3 days per week in class, online other days

Only one minor shutdown of a sports program.

I don't think that schools are the problem. They are fairly disciplined regarding policies and procedures.

Religious organizations, social gatherings, bars, etc. are the problem.

Where schools have shut down, it seems to be because kids and staff have brought in community-acquired Covid.