Nearly One-Third Of Florida Children Tested For COVID-19 Test Positive

[bluewater]

Source: The Huffington Post

Nearly one-third of children who have been tested for the coronavirus in Florida have tested positive, according to data from the state’s Department of Health that comes amid ongoing debate and uncertainty over whether schools will reopen this fall.

Of the 54,022 people under the age of 18 who have been tested for COVID-19 in Florida, 16,797 of them, or roughly 31%, have tested positive, data released Friday shows. In comparison, roughly 11% of everyone in the state who has been tested for the virus — roughly 2.8 million people — has tested positive.

Nearly half of the state’s positive cases among children were in the counties of Broward, Dade, Hillsborough and Palm Beach.

Cases throughout the Sunshine State have risen at alarming rates in recent weeks. On Thursday the state set a new one-day coronavirus death record while also reporting nearly 14,000 new cases of COVID-19 ― the second-highest daily total that the state has seen. Its highest total reported last weekend set a national record.

Amid this growth, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has continued to push for schools to reopen this fall, with him on Tuesday telling mayors in south Florida — the state’s hardest-hit area for cases — that doing so is low-risk.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-children-test-positive-coronavirus_n_5f105ac8c5b6d14c3363e65f

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The data rolls in that children can get Covid-19 at a high rate.

Does anyone rationally think those children would not also spread it as well?

Pushing to open the schools in Florida is insanity.

[George II]

1. Don't tell trump, he'll reply "in that case stop testing them."

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Dead children in Florida will surely CLOSE schools.

This will be on DeSantis' watch. Dead children......

[bluewater]

3. Infected Children, sick Parents, dead Grandparents and Teachers.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Like Trump, DeSantis is incapable of empathy....

Motherfucking Trumpsucker.

[BamaRefugee]

4. School is gonna be SO MUCH FUN! and all *science* classes are canceled!

[NoRWNJ]

9. Is science even taught in Florida's Republican schools?

[wnylib]

17. Probably the "science" of creationism.

[lark]

6. OMFG!

There was a report in today's rag that some of the labs used by the state (state labs? - not sure of that) were not reporting the negative tests and so were greatly skewing the numbers. At the same time they announced they were terminating services with 3 of the 6 labs to speed up processing. Bet these are connected but they aren't being reported as such as of early today. I have to admit, the numbers seemed unreal and double what was being reported last week so I have seriously wondered WTF. Still feel like WTF just with the # of cases and increasing deaths and death trop planned for Aug. 54% infection rate just can't be right or we are in such peril. It has to be wrong, doesn't it?

[central scrutinizer]

7. Children are vectors

They touch everything, put everything in their mouths, then jump on your lap and give you a big slobbery kiss and hug.

[wnylib]

18. And they drink out of each other's glasses.

[Igel]

8. We don't know what the infection rate for children is.

The article doesn't give that information.

The rate they give is for the sample of the population tested. Constraints on who's tested are different for kids and growns.

It might just be that parents have kids tested when they have clear symptoms above and beyond sniffles or allergies and which are obvious to parents or caregivers--while adults get tested more often because if you're sniffling and at work that might mean automatic quarantine, or just because one's own symptoms in fearful times are always scarier. Then there are the mandatory tests at some workplaces and in some fields.

The data are ambiguous. Might be, might not be.

[Chemisse]

10. But just three days ago we were assured that children rarely get it!

How can this have happened!?!

Why if F's name does the Trump administration continually push out BS that is so easily and ridiculously shown to be completely wrong - and so fast that even idiots can put the two together and start scratching their heads.

And when it comes to children, everybody is paying attention. Not even Dear Leader is more loved than the children in our lives.

Aim for the foot and shoot! And again!

[Shermann]

11. If they are testing positive they are shedding the virus nt

[BigmanPigman]

12. As soon as schools open, they will be closed again...that costs $$$

I know that these red states don't care if people get sick and die but only care about the economy. Don't they see that this will cost them even more $$$, opening and closing schools to quarantine right and left?

[CRK7376]

13. And I'm not supposed to worry

our young people are vectors spreading Coronavirus everywhere they go in my high school???

[OneCrazyDiamond]

14. Fl will be first to herd immunity in the world.

Seniors will be gone, and a hell of a lot of heart, lung, and kidney damage is the price.

[LisaL]

20. They are not even sure herd immunity is actually possible with covid.

For herd immunity, virus actually has to result in long lasting immunity. Covid might not be resulting in long lasting immunity.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

22. Then it keeps coming back forever. N/T

[warmfeet]

15. We are watching the destruction of the United States of America.

Passively watching.

WTF?

[not fooled]

16. this is how red don and deVos plan to destroy public schools

turn them into death traps that no one wants to attend, thus clearing the way to convert public education into privatized online charter schools. Heard the head of the national teachers' union state this earlier today on Thom Hartmann's show. Would explain a lot. I guess kids in poor school districts without good online access would just go into the labor pool--the return of child labor.

[hydrolastic]

25. THIS!!

Its like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Agreed and the move will be made before the election.

[LisaL]

19. Lets send them all back to school.

Then every child will become positive.

[onetexan]

21. Floridians need to throw out their crooked governor. Their children are dying. Horrendous!!

[MarcA]

23. Found the following interesting Johns Hopkins site.

coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states

[Calista241]

24. I don't see how those numbers are possible.

That’s such a high rate that almost no amount of quarantine would work.

[Javaman]

26. out of all the states, I believe that floridians will eventually storm their govs mansion

and remove deSatan out bodily.

and I say that as someone who lives in Texas. asshole abbott would shit a brick.