Rising number of children have long-haul COVID especially in Black & Latino communities- PBS NewHour
Since the pandemic began, children have largely been spared from severe illness and hospitalization. But nearly a year and a half later, the number of adolescent COVID cases is rising. While rare, for many it includes debilitating symptoms that can drag on for months. Black and Latino children have been especially impacted. Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports. Aired on 07/23/2021.
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"It's really vexing because even those of us who are vaccinated, I'm learning about more and more people having fairly mild breakthrough cases and that is because of the unvaccinated mingling among us. It's very frustrating to see." 
Per Dr. Ding. 
Why is that so hard to understand?? 
But with the viral load of delta and resultant shedding both being 1,000 times higher with delta & the fact that even asymptomatic & mild cases in fully vaxed people still can transmit, it is really scary!
Poor kids need to live in bubbles to be safe.
And, of course, they are going to be crammed back into schools in a couple of weeks. 
And between virtual and in-person learning, "social distancing" and health checks, the procedure was mind boggling. And I'm sure that they had to make changes as they went along. And here locally there were shut downs when there were breakout cases at several schools. And I know that masks were mandated, saw the kids getting off of the buses - but will masks still be mandated in the fall? In New York, starting this month, masks are no longer required to enter any store/business for those who are vaccinated - like the "honor system" works! 
And I know that some states - including warmer ones - start school during what we consider mid-summer. Do they have air conditioning? I would think they'd need even more time to make plans than usual, same as last year. *sigh* Schools start here at the beginning of September, and I imagine they're already scrambling to figure out how to handle the pandemic - yet again. 
Has taken great precautions once again! This is, I've read, the largest district in the state.
Their firm decision to make ALL k-12 virtual only last year likely saved many lives!
This year, they announted they spent $25 mil in covid $ to install amazing air filtration in every school!
Schools here all have air conditioning, but busses do not.
Durham Bus Co. Is a lowlife outfit. All busses are bought at auction & if they have anything good like air conditioning, they strip it from the bus & sell it.
Most busses do not have heat either because they are too cheap to make repairs.
Dr. Joris Ray is a real champion for all the district's students!
Last summer from whenever the District decided to go all virtual to the time school opened, every single K-12 kid had a laptop, internet at home &, where needed, electric bills paid to ensure continuity of learning.
I'd love to see him involved in the US Dept of Education! He is an earth angel.
All that said, the more affluent suburbs are, of course, quite red. Refusing mask mandates for students...
Not smart, but who ever accused the oppositionally defiant kids referred to qpukes "leaders" of being smart & making rational decisions? 
Did you see this tweet from Dr. Ding:
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Warning sign10x hospitalization Upwards arrow jump—many hospitals in Florida have more #COVID19 patients than ever before—all time pandemic record. At 2 UF hospitals in Jacksonville, the number of patients has risen to over 140, up from just 14 last month. Please #vaccinate
If this starts happening with rich people's kids in burbs, people are not going to be happy!
Army Corps of Engineers built out an overflow hospital last spring. Said the plan was for it to remain open for either 2 or 4 years which seemed a long time.
It was recently closed very quietly! 😳🤯 Not sure who was responsible. Likely qpuke legislators.
Here' the thing, though: Memphis us blue. Surrounding areas are rural & red as can be.
All of those areas send people to Memphis for hospitals, as does much of MS!
I'd love to know how the decision was made to close the overflow hospital ward. It was specifically designed as sort of a step down unit for ICU patients who weren't ready for regular rooms due to breathing problems from what I read. Just over 400 beds.
Maybe they aren't expecting that many serious cases to survive or to need those services. Not sure, but scary they clised it!
The schools around here are all pretty new, the district keeps expanding and they keep building moe schools. When I was in high school there, there was only one other for the lower grades, but they were building a brand new elementary school at the time and have since built a second one. And they have expanded the high school twice, the last time only a couple of years ago while school was in session! I did know one kid who was a senior that year and I felt bad for him - he said that the room where they'd had a class the day before might be gone by the next day - I can't imagine how they coped, especially the teachers!
As far as I know, they continued having classes at all schools all last year - though I was aware of several breakouts. I often got stuck behind buses - which now stop at every single house! - and, like I said, even the littlest kids wore masks.
But I was aware of several schools in the area that had to shut down for a period due to breakouts, including another fairly close high school that abruptly eliminated sports and after school activities just this Spring. And it doesn't appear that things have improved - despite the fact that those 12-and-up can now receive the Pfizer. My mainly rural county currently has had the most positive tests in the state (among those who can't or won't receive the vaccine according to yesterday's paper) - and they're currently monitoring 36 active cases. This does not bode well for the fall. School generally opens halfway through the first week in September. Looking at the calendar, I'd bet it's September 8th this year
And your schools sound like they did everything right when it comes to virtual learning, very impressive! And they're prepared for either virtual or in-school learning! Around here, they dealt with issues when they came up - hopefully they're better prepared this year, but this is the worst possible time to be a school administrator - or a teacher.
Here, the suburban schools that were in person or hybrid last year either never closed for outbreaks or closed only for 1-2 weeks.
This current situation sure doedsn't bode well for the fall semester.
Poor kid in that school you described.
The Pfizer is available to those 12-and-up - which would be junior high and high school. But will they get it? And will all teachers? My friend who teaches drove to the completely other side of the state to get the vaccine before it was available here. But then she's "one of us" (registered Democrat). I'd be very afraid to be a teacher now, let alone a student, unless they can mandate vaccinations - but good luck with that!
