PJYoung said:cone said:
I know some people that got Moderna boosters last week fwiw
Yeah my 81 year old father got his Friday.
Younger healthy people will probably have to wait I think.
10-4 Cheers buddy. All makes logical sense.Infection_Ag11 said:TheMasterplan said:If this is case, and of course its hindsight, would it have been more beneficial to expose the young to coronavirus in the earlier stages of the virus?Infection_Ag11 said:
The spike in younger patients in the hospital is just basic statistics. The delta variant is disproportionately causing symptomatic disease in the unvaccinated and those without prior infection, and that population HEAVILY skews towards younger demographics. If you have a lot more young people sick, you will have more young people in the hospital even if the percentages with severe disease haven't changed much (or even if they have decreased).
I'm seeing the same thing but I've seen nothing to suggest delta is more dangerous for the young on a case by case basis.
No, given they just have gotten sick earlier. Again this is a matter of percentages in a population level but it has little to do with the severity of disease in any individual. If any one person gets seriously ill with delta, they likely would have gotten seriously ill regardless of when they contracted the virus.
The only way to prevent this would have been for more young people to be vaccinated earlier in the year.
Infection_Ag11 said:PJYoung said:cone said:
I know some people that got Moderna boosters last week fwiw
Yeah my 81 year old father got his Friday.
Younger healthy people will probably have to wait I think.
You can walk into CVS or Walgreens and get a third dose any time you want just FYI.
cone said:
yeah if you haven't gotten sick you might want to get on that
blacksox said:
This thing now has at least 1/3 of my kid's home room class out, including the teacher.
mernaggie12 said:
46 Admissions with COVID (Average Age: 10.1 years, Median Age: 12.5 years, Range Age: 10 days to 17 years)
17 PICU Admission with COVID
1 NICU Admission with COVID
7 Intubated Patients with COVID (Average Age: 14.1 years, Range Age: 9 days to 17 years) - If you exclude the infant with COVID, Average Age is 16.5 years. Patients have been intubated for 3 to 25 days.
The 18 ICU level admissions are considered to have respiratory failure but are being managed with high flow nasal cannula.
wessimo said:mernaggie12 said:
46 Admissions with COVID (Average Age: 10.1 years, Median Age: 12.5 years, Range Age: 10 days to 17 years)
17 PICU Admission with COVID
1 NICU Admission with COVID
7 Intubated Patients with COVID (Average Age: 14.1 years, Range Age: 9 days to 17 years) - If you exclude the infant with COVID, Average Age is 16.5 years. Patients have been intubated for 3 to 25 days.
The 18 ICU level admissions are considered to have respiratory failure but are being managed with high flow nasal cannula.
Should an elderly person go ahead and get a third shot? Should it be the same vaccine as before (get a third Pfizer?)Infection_Ag11 said:PJYoung said:cone said:
I know some people that got Moderna boosters last week fwiw
Yeah my 81 year old father got his Friday.
Younger healthy people will probably have to wait I think.
You can walk into CVS or Walgreens and get a third dose any time you want just FYI.
Salute The Marines said:wessimo said:mernaggie12 said:
46 Admissions with COVID (Average Age: 10.1 years, Median Age: 12.5 years, Range Age: 10 days to 17 years)
17 PICU Admission with COVID
1 NICU Admission with COVID
7 Intubated Patients with COVID (Average Age: 14.1 years, Range Age: 9 days to 17 years) - If you exclude the infant with COVID, Average Age is 16.5 years. Patients have been intubated for 3 to 25 days.
The 18 ICU level admissions are considered to have respiratory failure but are being managed with high flow nasal cannula.
While that looks awful, and it is, one good thing to keep in mind is that only 385 kids ages 0 - 17 have died from Covid between January of 2020 and August 21, 2021. That's only 0.06% of all 623k covid deaths. We are still very fortunate this thing doesn't affect children.
That's 1/3 with positive tests.Salute The Marines said:blacksox said:
This thing now has at least 1/3 of my kid's home room class out, including the teacher.
Our school is only keeping kids home if they are symptomatic or positive. They are not recommending testing unless symptomatic.
It's working and no classes have been canceled. We need to use common sense here.
blacksox said:That's 1/3 with positive tests.Salute The Marines said:blacksox said:
This thing now has at least 1/3 of my kid's home room class out, including the teacher.
Our school is only keeping kids home if they are symptomatic or positive. They are not recommending testing unless symptomatic.
It's working and no classes have been canceled. We need to use common sense here.
