Why are COVID-19 cases in kids rising? It's mostly the adults around them....

PopsnTuff

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The beginning of the school year is coinciding with new data showing a startling surge in children and teenagers diagnosed with COVID-19, as a new report finds that nearly half of all pediatric cases of the disease were diagnosed in a single month.

The spike does not indicate any sinister changes in the virus that would make children more susceptible. And there's no evidence that children are doing anything unusual that would account for such an increase.

Instead, the source appears to be rooted in the communities those children are living in.

Those states include Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Tennessee. Each of those seven states has tallied more than 15,000 COVID-19 cases among young people since the beginning of the pandemic.

Louisiana, Virginia and the Carolinas all reported at least 10,000 pediatric cases. The numbers may be slightly skewed, because states differ in how they define "child" in their COVID-19 reporting. Alabama's pediatric count, for example, includes anyone under age 25....read on....

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/why-are-covid-19-cases-kids-rising-it-s-mostly-n1236496
 

Just because some politicians repeatedly speculate/insist that children can't/won't get infected doesn't make it so. Obviously.

Prepubescents may be less likely to experience serious complications during initial infections, but nobody knows what the long-term effects of this virus might be on a growing body.
 
PopsnTuff said:
The beginning of the school year is coinciding with new data showing a startling surge in children and teenagers diagnosed with COVID-19, as a new report finds that nearly half of all pediatric cases of the disease were diagnosed in a single month.

The spike does not indicate any sinister changes in the virus that would make children more susceptible. And there's no evidence that children are doing anything unusual that would account for such an increase.

Instead, the source appears to be rooted in the communities those children are living in.

Those states include Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Tennessee. Each of those seven states has tallied more than 15,000 COVID-19 cases among young people since the beginning of the pandemic.

Louisiana, Virginia and the Carolinas all reported at least 10,000 pediatric cases. The numbers may be slightly skewed, because states differ in how they define "child" in their COVID-19 reporting. Alabama's pediatric count, for example, includes anyone under age 25....read on....

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/why-are-covid-19-cases-kids-rising-it-s-mostly-n1236496
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I think that at least a strong contributing reason is that most children have been remaining at home with parents and thus aren't exposed as much as they would be attending school. Now that some schools are opening, they are being exposed and are being tested.
 

Testing is the strangest thing of all for me, because there are too many different types of tests out there ... a person can get tested every other day and be positive, then negative, then positive again. What's the point unless you are really sick?

Does anyone besides me, have a hard time understanding what is going on anymore. Not much is making sense to me at this point.
Those conflicting ever-changing statistics keep us on a roller coaster everywhere.
 
Bonnie said:
Testing is the strangest thing of all for me, because there are too many different types of tests out there ... a person can get tested every other day and be positive, then negative, then positive again. What's the point unless you are really sick?

Does anyone besides me, have a hard time understanding what is going on anymore. Not much is making sense to me at this point.
Those conflicting ever-changing statistics keep us on a roller coaster everywhere.
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It hasn't been making sense for several months. We're being lied to.
A friend is in the hospital after a fall & his other health issues. No Covid; just ongoing problems. They won't let his wife or anyone else visit him. I asked her, "Even if both wear masks & gowns?" She said, "No. No visitors allowed."
Well, that's funny. When doctors do surgery, they wear masks & gowns. Why wouldn't a mask protect a husband & wife who have been living together for 45 years & neither of them have Covid?
 
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