CMS (NC) elementary student dies of COVID-19, district rep says

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https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/elementary-aged-child-dies-covid-19-mecklenburg-county-health-officials-say/FKHGFA2AIBFR3PWGSGM75TKLSY/

Mecklenburg County Public Health said the death was reported to the department last week.

A CMS rep confirmed to Channel 9′s education reporter Elsa Gillis that the child attended Stoney Creek Elementary School.

According to data released by the health department last week, people under the age of 20 made up 1.5% of the 66 COVID-19 deaths in the county from Sept. 9 to Sept. 22.

More at link.

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1. 66 COVID deaths in one county in 13 days.

That sounds like a lot. Makes you wonder how many hospital patients have COVID.

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2. CO School COVID outbreaks are 9 times what they were last year

DJ Summers
Posted: Sep 30, 2021 / 02:42 PM MDT / Updated: Sep 30, 2021 / 02:42 PM MDT

... In the 2020 school year, many Colorado school districts had remote and hybrid learning options. As case rates rose in the fall, more and more schools moved away from in-person learning. All in-person classroom settings were highly controlled with mask mandates, social distancing protocols and other COVID control measures.

In the 2021-22 school year, remote options are allowed but most districts have reentered the classroom. They vary in their COVID control measures from district to district ...

The number of school outbreaks the state has seen during August and September is nine times the number from those months last year ...

https://kdvr.com/news/data/school-covid-outbreaks/

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3. Another child dies of COVID in Virginia

By NBC12 Newsroom
Published: Sep. 30, 2021 at 4:51 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WWBT) - Another child under the age of 10 died of COVID-19 in Virginia, NBC affiliate WAVY reports.

The child who died was in the Eastern health region, VDH told WAVY. Additional details were not released to protect the privacy of the child and family.

This comes the day after WAVY reported the death of 10-year-old Teresa Sperry, whose family said she died of COVID ...

https://www.nbc12.com/2021/09/30/another-child-dies-covid-virginia/

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4. Suffolk VA 5th grader who died escorted sick children to the school nurse

by: Regina Mobley
Posted: Sep 30, 2021 / 04:04 PM EDT / Updated: Sep 30, 2021 / 07:30 PM EDT

... Suffolk Public Schools (SPS) is responding to reports from the Sperrys that their daughter was assigned to escort sick children to the nurse’s office. Teresa’s father shared an account with Andy Fox, saying Teresa was proud of her role working as a so-called “nurse.”

“She was in the car and was telling me her job was to take care of the sick kids and take them to the nurse,” said Jeff Sperry.

That account has the superintendent of schools in the difficult position of contradicting the grieving parents ...

https://www.wavy.com/news/health/coronavirus/parents-of-suffolk-5th-grader-who-died-from-covid-19-say-their-daughter-escorted-sick-children-to-the-school-nurse/

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5. At least 2 Sacramento children have died of COVID

BY MICHAEL MCGOUGH
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 1:58 PM

Between two and four Sacramento County children have died of coronavirus during the pandemic, data in a recent report from the local health office to county leaders showed, compared to nearly 2,200 COVID-19 deaths among adults.

One of the child deaths happened in February 2021, according to a presentation by the county health officer during Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.

Local health officials have not publicly disclosed juvenile COVID-19 deaths, citing privacy protocols. The 0-to-17 death toll was redacted in the health officer’s presentation but could be determined indirectly from other data that was displayed ...

https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article254650302.html