Children now account for 36% of Tennessee's virus cases

[Jilly_in_VA]

Children now make up 36% of Tennessee’s reported COVID-19 cases, marking yet another sobering milestone in the state’s battle against the highly contagious delta variant, Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said Wednesday.

“We had 14,000 pediatric cases in the last seven days, which is a 57% increase over the week prior,” Piercey told reporters. “Right now, 36% of all of our cases in the state are among children when it’s historically been in the 10 to 15% range.”

According to researchers from Johns Hopkins, Tennessee ranks sixth in the country for new cases per capita. The rolling average number of daily new cases has increased by about 2,200, an increase of 75%, over the past two weeks.

Piercey said the biggest increase has been among school-age children just as many are kicking off the new school year.

This spike has raised calls from some health officials for the state to take more forceful protective measures to prevent the spread the virus among young children, teachers and other staffers.

https://www.wate.com/news/children-now-account-for-36-of-tennessees-virus-cases/
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Nice job, Billy Bob!

[spanone]

1. our governor and senators really don't care.

[BeckyDem]

2. How many will live with long covoid too.

Yea, don't wear a mask. omg.

[lagomorph777]

3. Marching children off to the death camps. In some states, they are banned from any protections.

[PA Democrat]

4. And what does Governor Bill Lee do? He signs an executive order allowing

parents to opt out of mask mandates!

Personally, I feel any parent who sends their child to school without a mask is criminally negligent. Tennessee law requires children to be properly restrained in a car with fines of $50,000 for parents/ guardians who fail to comply with the law.

Protecting your children and other members of the community from the spread of Covid-19 is apparently not as big of a priority with this idiot of a governor.

[Irish_Dem]

6. I agree, it is criminally negligent.

Deliberately sending children into harm's way.

[Irish_Dem]

5. What kind of society refuses to protect their children from harm?

A society with no moral compass and a death wish.

[Texaswitchy]

7. It is insane.

Little children being marched. to possible illness and death.

[70sEraVet]

8. Our children are being sacrificed so that our governor

will be seen as 'adequately Trumpian'!

[RockRaven]

9. First it was sacrifice your grandparents to save the economy, now it's kill your kids to

own the libs. And they're doing it.