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August 8, 2020

Nearly 100,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July

Nearly 100,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July, a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics finds. Just over 97,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus from July 16 to July 30, according to the association.

Out of almost 5 million reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S., CBS News' Michael George reports that the group found that more than 338,000 were children.

Vanderbilt University's Dr. Tina Hartert hopes increased testing of children will help determine what role they play in transmission, as school districts around the country return to some form of school. She is leading a government-funded study that saw DIY testing kits sent to some 2,000 families.

"The kits are shipped to the families, they are taught how to collect these samples, and then the samples are sent back by the families to a central repository," she said.


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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-kids-schools-in-person-instruction/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=96496311

August 8, 2020

MSNBC: Corpus Christie Tx has had 187 infants diagnosed with COVID one of whom has died.

MSNBC just reported that Corpus Christie Tx has had 187 infants diagnosed with COVID one of whom has died.

This report given with the backdrop of people crowded together on the beaches which public health officers say has contributed to the spread there.

187 infants.

https://twitter.com/digby56/status/1292148720717271041?s=20

August 8, 2020

"Meanwhile"

Biden has selected a running mate
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1292134017807126528?s=20

August 7, 2020

Back To School

August 7, 2020

Newsweek: Over 100 people have died in U.S. while taking hydoxychloroquine for COVID-19

Over 100 people in the U.S. died in the first half of 2020 after taking the anti-malarial medicine hydroxychloroquine or related drugs while sick with COVID-19, according to a report.

Analysis of new data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) adverse events reporting system by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed the deaths of 293 people in the first half of this year involved hydroxychloroquine, its brand name Plaquenil, or its sister medicine chloroquine. That was up from 75 in the first half of 2019. Of those, COVID-19 was stated as the reason for the patient using the medication in "more than half" of cases, according to the newspaper.

Hydroxychloroquine has long been prescribed to prevent or treat malaria, as well as for auto-immune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, but has more recently been falsely promoted as a treatment for COVID-19.


https://www.newsweek.com/over-100-people-have-died-us-while-taking-hydoxychloroquine-covid-19-report-1523635?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1596818127

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