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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Fri Aug 20, 2021, 12:35 PM Aug 2021

The Callousness of the Anti-Vaxxers: Children in the hospital with COVID

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-covid-19-hospitalizations-new-high-august-2021-n1277119

Around the country, child hospitalizations for Covid-19 have increased to levels not seen since January, when U.S. cases and deaths were at their highest levels, according to the latest government data. Doctors in the hospitals hardest hit by the recent surge say the situation is worse than it was in January.

It happened fast: As of Wednesday, U.S. hospitals were tending to an average of more than 1,200 children a day, twice the number from the end of July and four times from the start of July, according to an NBC News analysis of data released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services.

The data show the U.S. facing another peak in child hospitalizations as the delta variant of the coronavirus hits communities hesitant to get vaccinated. And while unvaccinated adults are filling ICUs in parts of the South, minors in those areas are filling up the pediatric wings at an alarming pace.


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The Callousness of the Anti-Vaxxers: Children in the hospital with COVID (Original Post) steve2470 Aug 2021 OP
Killing their own children cbabe Aug 2021 #1

cbabe

(3,548 posts)
1. Killing their own children
Fri Aug 20, 2021, 12:53 PM
Aug 2021

Last edited Fri Aug 20, 2021, 01:32 PM - Edit history (1)

seems to be the American way.

Lynchings, for example. Fathers killing their sons.

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