Child deaths in Brazil due to virus shocking
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Last year, a study found that children and young people were far less likely than adults to get severe cases of COVID-19 infection, and death from the pandemic disease among children was exceptionally rare.
A study of COVID-19 patients admitted to 138 hospitals in Britain found that less than 1% were children, and of those fewer than 1% – or six in total – died, all of whom were already suffering serious illness or underlying health disorders.
However, Brazil has turned out to prove quite the contrary. As some countries seek to stem the virus pandemic, Brazil is facing an ever-worsening crisis, with overwhelmed health systems and a soaring death toll leading to a significant number of babies dying from COVID-19.
The South American country’s seven-day rolling average for deaths reached more than 3,000 this month, as the medical NGO Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned that a “humanitarian catastrophe” was unfolding due to government mismanagement of the pandemic. Earlier this week, Dr Fatima Marinho, a senior adviser to the health NGO Vital Strategies, told the BBC that there had been an alarmingly high number of children and babies affected by the virus in Brazil.
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if we'll ever stop this pandemic. Even in our own country I doubt we'll reach herd immunity, because of the republican morons who not only won't get vaccinated, they won't even wear a mask. This virus is mutating so quickly I'm not sure we can pull even with it, let alone get in front of it. Will we need two booster shots a year soon, and how long before people tire of that, and just decide to take their chances?
Then there are the poor and/or dangerously mismanaged countries, who can't afford the vaccine, and have no infrastructure in place to distribute it , even if it was given to them. How do we stop the spread there?
I'm generally not a pessimistic person, but I am a realist. Human beings, being as selfish and self-centered as they are, just won't look out for themselves, let alone their neighbors. And those living in what DJT called the "shit hole" countries? Well....it's America first baby! 
Hooray for me and to hell with you. 
What the hell is wrong with people, and I'm not speaking only of Americans? Is this the way the world ends? Is this the way that the world ends? Not with a bang, but with a totally selfish whimper? 
