– Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a televised roundtable on August 10
The Republican governor said that young people without any underlying physical disorder would gain advantages from face-to-face learning and the stimulation and camaraderie of being among other young people, and also indicated that he believes that those advantages outweigh what he sees as minimal risks..
“The fact is that in terms of school-age children, this is a decrease than seasonal influenza,” DeSantis said at a televised roundtable on education on August 10.
DeSantis’ statement made us question, so we asked the governor’s workplace what evidence he had for that claim.
Look at the numbers
A spokesperson responded with knowledge from the Florida Department of Health and said the state’s COVID-19 mortality rate is 0.02% for others age 24 and younger, the same as the influenza mortality rate for this age group.
But for young people aged 14 and under, the spokesman said, the COVID-19 mortality rate in Florida is 0.009%, well below 0.01% for influenza in this age group.
And the death threat is the only fear of young people if they are inflamed by the COVID-19 virus, they can enlarge headaches that require hospitalization.
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“The threat of headaches to healthy youth is greater for influenza than for COVID-19,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “However, infants and youth with underlying medical conditions are at increased threat from influenza and COVID-19.”
The CDC estimates that there were 480 deaths among young Americans from influenza during the 2018-19 season, adding 136 cases in which the virus was shown through laboratory testing.
In mid-August, 90 young people died of COVID-19 in the United States, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
More than 46,000 young people were hospitalized for influenza during the period 2018-2019 according to the year.The hospitalization rate for five- to 17-year-olds was 39.2 young people, equivalent to 100,000 young people.
The COVID-19 hospitalization rate is six, consistent with 100,000 young people between the ages of five and 17, according to the CDC.
The number and rate of COVID cases among young people in the United States was higher from March to July.”The true occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in young people is unknown due to a lack of widespread testing and prioritization of tests for adults and others with serious illnesses,” the CDC recently wrote.
While young people have lower fan use rates than adults, 1 in 3 young people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the US have a lower rate of fan use.But it’s not the first time He joined the intensive care unit, the same rate as for adults, the CDC said.
Dr. Chad Vercio, president of pediatrics at Riverside University in California, said DeSantis is partly true, with many reservations.The threat of COVID-19 to young people “depends entirely on the scope of COVID in any area.”he said.
Knowledge a snapshot over time
Hospitalization rates in the United States for young people with COVID are lower than those of children with influenza, Vercio said, but this may be because parents keep children at home and schools have been closed since March, he added.”It is not known whether those COVID hospitalization rates would increase when we open schools,” he said.
About two-thirds of Florida’s school districts have opened in the past two weeks, and the rest plans to resume until August 31.Most districts will offer in-person categories while give parents the opportunity to stay academics at home for virtual learning.In South Florida, where the pandemic has hit harder, districts plan, at least initially, to offer virtual education.
Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, had planned to reopen the classrooms, but it was reversed after doctors warned that school closures were most likely to occur.The county revised its plan to restrict categories to online-only education, but the state’s education commissioner rejected the approach.saying he denied parents the opportunity to send their children back to school.Fearing the loss of millions of dollars in public funds, the District now plans to begin virtual learning for all students on August 24 and, on August 31, begin providing students with the opportunity to return to classes.
“The direct effect of COVID-19 on young people is lately small compared to other hazards and …”The main explanation for why we stay young at home is to protect adults,” concluded a report published in the British Medical Journal.However, the fitness government says parents deserve to make sure children practice smart hygiene and restrict playing time with other children.
Based on knowledge from February to mid-May, the report revealed 44 COVID-19 deaths in others age 19 and younger in France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, England and the United States.one month, there would be 308 deaths from decreased respiratory tract infections, adding influenza, in those countries.
Email interview with Frederick Piccolo Jr., communications director of Governor Ron DeSantis, August 14, 2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Similarities and Differences Between Influenza and COVID-19, “August 2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Influenza Disease Estimates, Medical Visits, Hospitalizations and Deaths in the United States – Influenza Season 2018-2019, 2020
American Academy of Pediatrics, Children and COVID-19 (Table 2c), August 6, 2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-NET, COVID-19 Confirmed Hospitalizations, August 8, 2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Information for Pediatric Health Care Providers, August 17, 2020
American Academy of Pediatrics, Study: 33% of young people hospitalized with COVID-19 admitted to intensive care »August 7, 2020
Telephone interview with Dr. Chad Vercio, president of pediatrics at Riverside University Health System in California, August 13, 2020
The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, COVID-19 in children and adolescents in Europe, 25 June 2020
The Lancet, COVID-19 in 7780 paediatric patients: a systematic review, 1 July 2020
British Medical Journal, Risks for Children in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Essential Epidemiology, 10 June 2020
Email interview with Sunil Bhopal, professor of clinic at the University of Newcastle, England, 14 August 2020
Telephone interview with Dr. Sean O’Leary, professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz medical campus, August 11, 2020
Telephone interview with Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, Infectious Diseases Specialist at Tufts Medical Center, August 12, 2020
Telephone interview with Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, August 13, 2020
Telephone interview with Dr. Vidya Mony, an infectious disease at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, August 14, 2020
Florida Department of Health, Florida COVID-19 Control and Surveillance Panel, August 18, 2020
“At this level of the pandemic, COVID appears to be less harmful to young people than influenza,” said Sunil Bhopal, co-author of the report and professor of university clinic at the University of Newcastle in England.
“We don’t have to wait a full season because, even at its peak in peak countries, COVID has killed fewer young people than the average flu deaths for a year,” Bhopal said.
“Although influenza has caused more deaths than COVID, this can replace the pandemic as the pandemic progresses and much caution is needed to make sure this doesn’t replace,” said Bhopal, honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Sean O’Leary, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, said the emerging number of deaths in the United States may be just an explanation of why to think about COVID-19 and children.
“We know for sure that schoolchildren are the main drivers of influenza epidemics on the network, and this is not so much the case with COVID, it doesn’t mean they can’t spread it,” he said.
DeSantis also argued that young people are less likely to spread COVID-19 than the flu virus; however, experts warned that young people’s ability to transmit the virus to others they interact with (parents, grandparents, and even teachers) remains unknown.The perceived threat to teachers, for example, led to a lawsuit between the state’s largest teachers’ union and The DeSantis administration.The Florida Education Association needs Leon County to issue a ruling to avoid the state ordinance that requires school districts to open study rooms for face-to-face learning until the end of August.
Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, an infectious disease specialist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, said young people are more likely to have mild or no symptoms of COVID-19 in adults.
“Ultimately, young people can become inflamed and have a tendency to have a less serious illness,” he says.But reopening the school means that young people can simply pass on the disease to others, adding adults who are more likely to expand complications.
“Because schools are connected to the network, they’re not in a bubble, and if the network extension isn’t controlled on the network, the school will most likely reflect that,” he said.finding out if the disease is uncontrollable is whether the positivity rates for others examined by COVID are above 5%.Many Florida counties have been well above that mark since June, rates have fallen this month.
The dangers of returning to school will be hampered by the school’s ability to take physical estating measures and the use of face masks, said Dr. Andrew Pavia, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at utah Health University and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital.
“This fall, we’ll probably see a lot of young people swell as schools reopen, and this is possibly just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.”Even though most young people have mild or asymptomatic cases, what worries me is the length of the tip of the iceberg,” Pavia said.
He also noted that there is a flu vaccine, which gets between 50% and 70% of children.”The vaccine is not the best, but it reduces the effect of the disease, and with COVID, everyone is at risk and vulnerable.”Pavia said.
Dr. Vidya Mony, an infectious disease specialist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, said knowledge recommends that COVID-19 is not as bad for young people as influenza and that young people are not the main driving force of the pandemic.But, he said, there is still not enough knowledge to say that the threat of COVID-19 is less.”We are informed of anything every day with this.”
Our decision
DeSantis stated that COVID-19 is a decrease for schoolchildren than seasonal influenza.
Studies show that the number of COVID-like deaths and hospitalizations in young people is lower than average influenza rates; however, it is doubtful that these rates of decline among young people are partly due to the closure of schools since March and whether those rates will increase as the study rooms reopen this fall.It is also unclear whether the opening of schools, i.e. in communities with large numbers of people who tested positive, will lead to a greater spread of the disease.
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The Republican governor said that young people without any underlying physical disorder would gain advantages from face-to-face learning and the stimulation and camaraderie of being among other young people, and also indicated that he believes that those advantages outweigh what he sees as minimal risks..
“The fact is that in terms of school-age children, this is a decrease than seasonal influenza,” DeSantis said at a televised roundtable on education on August 10.
DeSantis’ statement made us question, so we asked the governor’s workplace what evidence he had for that claim.
Looking at the numbers
A spokesperson responded with knowledge from the Florida Department of Health and apparently the COVID-19 mortality rate in the state is 0.02% for others 24 years of age or younger, the same as the influenza mortality rate for this age group.
But for young people aged 14 and under, the spokesman said, the COVID-19 mortality rate in Florida is 0.009%, well below 0.01% for influenza in this age group.
And the death threat is the only fear of young people if they are inflamed by the COVID-19 virus, they can enlarge headaches that require hospitalization.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the threat of headaches for young people in good shape is greater for influenza than for COVID-19.However, infants and young people with underlying fitness disorders are at increased threat of influenza and COVID-19.”
The CDC estimates that there were 480 deaths among young Americans from influenza in the 2018-19 season, adding 136 cases in which the virus was shown through laboratory testing.
In mid-August, 90 young people died of COVID-19 in the United States, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
More than 46,000 young people were hospitalized for influenza during the period 2018-2019 according to the year.The hospitalization rate for five- to 17-year-olds was 39.2 young people, equivalent to 100,000 young people.
The COVID-19 hospitalization rate is six, consistent with 100,000 young people between the ages of five and 17, according to the CDC.
The number and rate of COVID cases among young people in the United States was higher from March to July.”The true occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in young people is unknown due to a lack of widespread testing and prioritization of tests for adults and critically ill people,” the CDC recently wrote.
While young people have lower fan use rates than adults, 1 in 3 young people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the US have a lower rate of fan use.But it’s not the first time He joined the intensive care unit, the same rate as for adults, the CDC said.
Dr. Chad Vercio, president of pediatrics at Riverside University in California, said DeSantis is partly true, with many reservations.The threat of COVID-19 to young people “depends entirely on the scope of COVID in any area.”he said.
Knowledge a snapshot over time
Hospitalization rates in the United States for young people with COVID are lower than those of children with influenza, Vercio said, but this may be because parents keep children at home and schools have been closed since March, he added.”It is not known whether those COVID hospitalization rates would increase when we open schools,” he said.
About two-thirds of Florida’s school districts have opened in the past two weeks, and the rest plans to resume on August 31.Most districts will offer in-person categories while give parents the opportunity to stay academics at home for virtual learning.In South Florida, where the pandemic has hit harder, districts plan, at least initially, to offer virtual education.
Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, had planned to reopen classrooms, but it was reversed after doctors warned that school closures would likely occur.The county revised its plan to restrict categories to online-only education, but the state’s education commissioner rejected the approach.saying he denied parents the opportunity to send their children back to school.Fearing the loss of millions of dollars in public funds, the District now plans to begin virtual learning for all students on August 24 and, on August 31, begin providing students with the opportunity to return to classes.
“The direct effect of COVID-19 on young people is lately small compared to other hazards and …”The main explanation for why we stay young at home is to protect adults,” concluded a report published in the British Medical Journal.However, the fitness government says parents deserve to make sure children practice smart hygiene and restrict playing time with other children.
According to knowledge from February to mid-May, the report revealed 44 COVID-19 deaths in others 19 years of age or younger in France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, England and the United States.one month, there would be 308 deaths from decreased respiratory tract infections, adding influenza, in those countries.
“At this level of the pandemic, COVID appears to be less harmful to young people than influenza,” said Sunil Bhopal, co-author of the report and university clinical professor at the University of Newcastle in England.
“We don’t have to wait a full season because, even at its peak in peak countries, COVID has killed fewer young people than the average flu deaths for a year,” Bhopal said.
“Although influenza has caused more deaths than COVID, this can replace the pandemic as the pandemic progresses and much caution is needed to make sure this doesn’t replace,” said Bhopal, honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Sean O’Leary, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, said the emerging number of deaths in the United States may be just an explanation of why to think about COVID-19 and children.
“We know for sure that schoolchildren are the main drivers of influenza epidemics on the network, and this is not so much the case with COVID, it doesn’t mean they can’t spread it,” he said.
DeSantis also argued that young people are less likely to transmit COVID-19 than the flu virus.However, experts have warned that young people’s ability to transmit the virus to others they interact with (parents, grandparents, and even teachers) is still unknown.The perceived threat to teachers, for example, has led to a lawsuit between the state’s largest teachers’ union and DeSantis administration.The Florida Education Association needs a Leon County ruling to prevent the state order from requiring school districts to open in-person learning rooms through the end of August.
Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, an infectious disease specialist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, said young people are more likely to have mild or no symptoms of COVID-19 in adults.
“Ultimately, young people can become inflamed and have a tendency to have a less serious illness,” he says.But reopening the school means that young people can simply pass on the disease to others, adding adults who are more likely to expand complications.
“Because schools are connected to the network, they’re not in a bubble, and if the network extension isn’t controlled on the network, the school will most likely reflect that,” he said.finding out if the disease is uncontrollable is whether the positivity rates for others examined by COVID are above 5%.Many Florida counties have been well above that mark since June, rates have fallen this month.
The dangers of going back to school will be hampered depending on the school’s ability to take physical distancing measures and require the use of face masks, said Dr. Andrew Pavia, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah Health and the Intermountain Primary. Children’s Hospital..
“This fall, we’ll probably see a lot of young people swell as schools reopen, and this is possibly just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.”Even though most young people have mild or asymptomatic cases, what worries me is the length of the tip of the iceberg,” Pavia said.
He also noted that there is a flu vaccine, which gets about 50% to 70% of children.”The vaccine is not the best, but it reduces the effect of the disease, and with COVID, everyone is at risk and vulnerable.”Pavia said.
Dr. Vidya Mony, an infectious disease specialist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, said knowledge recommends that COVID-19 is not as bad for young people as influenza and that young people are not the main driving force of the pandemic.But, he said, there is still not enough knowledge to say that the threat of COVID-19 is less.”We are informed of anything every day with this.”
Our decision
DeSantis stated that COVID-19 is a decrease for schoolchildren than seasonal influenza.
Studies show that the number of COVID-like deaths and hospitalizations in young people is lower than average influenza rates; however, it is doubtful that these rates of decline among young people are partly due to the closure of schools since March and whether those rates will increase as the study rooms reopen this fall.It is also unclear whether the opening of schools, i.e. in communities with large numbers of people who tested positive, will lead to a greater spread of the disease.
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The Republican governor said that young people without any underlying physical disorder would gain advantages from face-to-face learning and the stimulation and camaraderie of being among other young people, and indicated that he believes those advantages outweigh what he sees as minimal risks..
“The fact is that in terms of school-age children, this is a decrease than seasonal influenza,” DeSantis said at a televised roundtable on education on August 10.
DeSantis’ statement made us question, so we asked the governor’s workplace what evidence he had for that claim.
Look at the numbers
A spokesperson responded with knowledge from the Florida Department of Health and said the state’s COVID-19 mortality rate is 0.02% for others age 24 and younger, the same as the influenza mortality rate for this age group.
But for young people aged 14 and under, the spokesman said, the COVID-19 mortality rate in Florida is 0.009%, well below 0.01% for influenza in this age group.
And the death threat is the only fear of young people inflamed by COVID-19, who can enlarge headaches that require hospitalization.
The Republican governor said that young people without any underlying physical disorder would gain advantages from face-to-face learning and the stimulation and camaraderie of being among other young people, and also indicated that he believes that those advantages outweigh what he sees as minimal risks..
“The fact is that in terms of school-age children, this is a decrease than seasonal influenza,” DeSantis said at a televised roundtable on education on August 10.
DeSantis’ statement made us question, so we asked the governor’s workplace what evidence he had for that claim.
Look at the numbers
A spokesperson responded with knowledge from the Florida Department of Health and said the state’s COVID-19 mortality rate is 0.02% for others age 24 and younger, the same as the influenza mortality rate for this age group.
But for young people aged 14 and under, the spokesman said, the COVID-19 mortality rate in Florida is 0.009%, well below 0.01% for influenza in this age group.
And the death threat is the only fear of young people inflamed by COVID-19, who can enlarge headaches that require hospitalization.
“The threat of headaches for healthy young people is greater for influenza than for COVID-19,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”However, babies and young people with underlying medical situations have a greater threat of influenza and COVID-19.”
The CDC estimates that there were 480 deaths among young Americans from influenza during the 2018-19 season, adding 136 cases in which the virus was shown through laboratory testing.
In mid-August, 90 young people died of COVID-19 in the United States, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
More than 46,000 young people were hospitalized for influenza in 2018-2019 according to the year.The hospitalization rate for five- to 17-year-olds was 39.2 young people, equivalent to 100,000 young people.
The COVID-19 hospitalization rate is six, consistent with 100,000 young people between the ages of five and 17, according to the CDC.
The number and rate of COVID cases among young people in the United States was higher from March to July.”The true occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in young people is unknown due to a lack of widespread testing and prioritization of tests for adults and critically ill people,” the CDC recently wrote.
While young people have lower fan use rates than adults, 1 in 3 young people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the US have a lower rate of fan use.But it’s not the first time He joined the intensive care unit, the same rate as for adults, the CDC said.
Dr. Chad Vercio, president of pediatrics at Riverside University in California, said DeSantis is partly true, with many reservations.The threat of COVID-19 to young people “depends entirely on the scope of COVID in any area.”he said.
Knowledge a snapshot over time
Hospitalization rates in the United States for young people with COVID are lower than those of children with influenza, Vercio said, but this may be because parents keep children at home and schools have been closed since March, he added.”It is not known whether those COVID hospitalization rates would increase when we open schools,” he said.
Approximately two-thirds of Florida’s school districts have opened in the past two weeks, and the rest have plans to resume until August 31.Most districts will offer in-person categories while give parents the opportunity to stay as students at home for virtual learning.In South Florida, where the pandemic has hit harder, districts plan, at least initially, to offer virtual education.
Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, had planned to reopen the classrooms, but it was reversed after doctors warned that school closures were most likely to occur.The county revised its plan to restrict categories to online-only education, but the state’s education commissioner rejected the approach.saying he denied parents the opportunity to send their children back to school.Fearing the loss of millions of dollars in public funds, the District now plans to begin virtual learning for all students on August 24 and, on August 31, begin providing students with the opportunity to return to classes.
“The direct effect of COVID-19 on young people is lately small compared to other hazards and …”The main explanation for why we stay young at home is to protect adults,” concluded a report published in the British Medical Journal.However, the fitness government says parents deserve to make sure children practice smart hygiene and restrict playing time with other children.
According to knowledge from February to mid-May, the report revealed 44 COVID-19 deaths in others 19 years of age or younger in France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, England and the United States.one month, there would be 308 deaths from decreased respiratory tract infections, adding influenza, in those countries.
“At this level of the pandemic, COVID appears to be less harmful to young people than influenza,” said Sunil Bhopal, a co-author of the report and a clinical university professor at the University of Newcastle in England.
“We don’t have to wait a full season because, even at its peak in peak countries, COVID has killed fewer young people than the average flu deaths for a year,” Bhopal said.
“Although influenza has caused more deaths than COVID, this can replace the pandemic as the pandemic progresses and much caution is needed to make sure this doesn’t replace,” said Bhopal, honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Sean O’Leary, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, said the emerging number of deaths in the United States may be just an explanation of why to think about COVID-19 and children.
“We know for sure that schoolchildren are the main drivers of influenza epidemics on the network, and this is not so much the case with COVID, it doesn’t mean they can’t spread it,” he said.
DeSantis also argued that young people are less likely to spread COVID-19 than the flu virus; however, experts warned that the ability of young people to transmit the virus to the other people with whom they interact (parents, grandparents and even teachers) remains unknown. The perceived threat to teachers, for example, led to a lawsuit between the state’s largest teachers union and the DeSantis administration. The Florida Education Association needs Leon County to pass judgment to avoid the state ordinance that requires school districts to open study rooms for face-to-face learning until the end of August.
Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, an infectious disease specialist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, said young people are more likely to have mild or no symptoms of COVID-19 in adults.
“Ultimately, young people can become inflamed and have a tendency to have a less serious illness,” he says.But reopening the school means that young people can simply pass on the disease to others, adding adults who are more likely to expand complications.
“Because schools are connected to the network, they’re not in a bubble, and if network broadcasting isn’t controlled on the network, the school will most likely reflect that,” he says.finding out if the disease is uncontrollable is whether the positivity rates for other people who have been tested for COVID are above 5%.Many Florida counties have been well above that mark since June, rates have fallen this month.
The dangers of returning to school will be hampered depending on the school’s ability to take physical estating measures and require the use of face masks, said Dr. Andrew Pavia, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary.Children’s Hospital..
“This fall, we’ll probably see a lot of young people swell up when schools reopen, and this is possibly just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.”Even though most young people have mild or asymptomatic cases, what worries me is the length of the tip of the iceberg,” Pavia said.
He also noted that there is a flu vaccine, which gets about 50% to 70% of children.”The vaccine is not the best, but it reduces the effect of the disease, and with COVID, everyone is at risk and vulnerable.”Pavia said.
Dr. Vidya Mony, an infectious disease specialist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, said knowledge recommends that COVID-19 is not as bad for young people as influenza and that young people are not the main driving force of the pandemic.But, he said, there is still not enough knowledge to say that the threat of COVID-19 is less.”We are informed of anything every day with this.”
Our decision
DeSantis stated that COVID-19 is a decrease for schoolchildren than seasonal influenza.
Studies show that the number of COVID-like deaths and hospitalizations in young people is lower than average influenza rates; however, it is doubtful that these rates of decline among young people are partly due to the closure of schools since March and whether those rates will increase as the study rooms reopen this fall.It is also unclear whether the opening of schools, i.e. in communities with large numbers of other people who tested positive, will lead to a greater spread of the disease.
We consider the claim to be almost true.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the threat of headaches for young people in good shape is greater for influenza than for COVID-19.However, infants and young people with underlying fitness disorders are at increased threat of influenza and COVID-19.”
The CDC estimates that there were 480 deaths among young Americans from influenza during the 2018-19 season, adding 136 cases in which the virus was shown through laboratory testing.
In mid-August, 90 young people died of COVID-19 in the United States, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
More than 46,000 young people were hospitalized for influenza in 2018-2019 according to the year.The hospitalization rate for five- to 17-year-olds was 39.2 young people, equivalent to 100,000 young people.
The COVID-19 hospitalization rate is six, consistent with 100,000 young people between the ages of five and 17, according to the CDC.
The number and rate of COVID cases among young people in the United States was higher from March to July.”The true occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in young people is unknown due to a lack of widespread testing and prioritization of tests for adults and others with serious illnesses,” the CDC recently wrote.
While young people have lower fan use rates than adults, 1 in 3 young people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the US have a lower rate of fan use.But it’s not the first time He joined the extensive care unit, the same rate as for adults, the CDC said.
Dr. Chad Vercio, president of pediatrics at Riverside University in California, said DeSantis’ is partly true, with many reservations.The threat of COVID-19 to young people “depends entirely on the scope of COVID in any area.”he said.
Knowledge a snapshot over time
Hospitalization rates in the United States for young people with COVID are lower than those of children with influenza, Vercio said, but this may be because parents keep children at home and schools have been closed since March, he added.”It is not known whether those COVID hospitalization rates would increase when we open schools,” he said.
About two-thirds of Florida’s school districts have opened in the past two weeks, and the rest plans to resume until August 31.Most districts will offer in-person categories while give parents the opportunity to stay academics at home for virtual learning.In South Florida, where the pandemic has hit harder, districts plan, at least initially, to offer virtual education.
Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, had planned to reopen the classrooms, but it was reversed after doctors warned that school closures were most likely to occur.The county revised its plan to restrict categories to online-only education, but the state’s education commissioner rejected the approach.saying he denied parents the opportunity to send their children back to school.Fearing the loss of millions of dollars in public funds, the District now plans to begin virtual learning for all students on August 24 and, on August 31, begin providing students with the opportunity to return to classes.
“The direct effect of COVID-19 on young people is lately small compared to other hazards and …”The main explanation for why we stay young at home is to protect adults,” concluded a report published in the British Medical Journal.However, the fitness government says parents deserve to make sure children practice smart hygiene and restrict playing time with other children.
Based on knowledge from February to mid-May, the report revealed 44 COVID-19 deaths in others age 19 and younger in France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, England and the United States.one-month period, it is believed that 308 deaths are due to decreased respiratory tract infections, adding influenza, in those countries.
The Republican governor said that youth without any underlying physical disorder would gain benefits from face-to-face learning and the stimulation and camaraderie of being with other youth, and also indicated that he believes those benefits outweigh what he sees as minimal risks. .
“The fact is, in terms of school-age children, this is a decrease than the seasonal flu,” DeSantis said at a televised roundtable on education on Aug. 10.
DeSantis’ statement made us question, so we asked the governor’s workplace what evidence he had for that claim.
Looking at the numbers
A spokesperson responded with knowledge from the Florida Department of Health and apparently the COVID-19 mortality rate in the state is 0.02% for others 24 years of age or younger, the same as the influenza mortality rate for this age group.
But for young people aged 14 and under, the spokesman said, the COVID-19 mortality rate in Florida is 0.009%, well below 0.01% for influenza in this age group.
And the death threat is the only fear of young people inflamed by the COVID-19 virus.They can expand headaches that require hospitalization.
“The threat of headaches for healthy young people is greater for influenza than for COVID-19,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”However, babies and young people with underlying medical situations have a greater threat of influenza and COVID-19.”
The CDC estimates that there were 480 deaths among young Americans from influenza during the 2018-19 season, adding 136 cases in which the virus was shown through laboratory testing.
In mid-August, 90 young people died of COVID-19 in the United States, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
More than 46,000 young people were hospitalized for influenza in 2018-2019 according to the year.The hospitalization rate for five- to 17-year-olds was 39.2 young people, equivalent to 100,000 young people.
The COVID-19 hospitalization rate is six, consistent with 100,000 young people between the ages of five and 17, according to the CDC.
The number and rate of COVID cases among young people in the United States was higher from March to July.”The true occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in young people is unknown due to a lack of widespread testing and prioritization of tests for adults and others with serious illnesses,” the CDC recently wrote.
While young people have lower fan usage rates than adults, 1 in 3 young people hospitalized by COVID-19 in the United States have been admitted to the extensive care unit, the same rate as adults, the CDC said.
Dr. Chad Vercio, president of pediatrics at Riverside University in California, said DeSantis is partly true, with many reservations.The threat of COVID-19 to young people “depends entirely on the scope of COVID in any area.”he said.
Knowledge a snapshot over time
Hospitalization rates in the United States for young people with COVID are lower than those of children with influenza, Vercio said, but this may be because parents keep children at home and schools have been closed since March, he added.”It is not known whether those COVID hospitalization rates would increase when we open schools,” he said.
About two-thirds of Florida’s school districts have opened in the past two weeks, and the rest plans to resume until August 31.Most districts will offer in-person categories while give parents the opportunity to stay academics at home for virtual learning.In South Florida, where the pandemic has hit harder, districts plan, at least initially, to offer virtual education.
Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, had planned to reopen the classrooms, but it was reversed after doctors warned that school closures were most likely to occur.The county revised its plan to restrict categories to online-only education, but the state’s education commissioner rejected the approach.saying he denied parents the opportunity to send their children back to school.Fearing the loss of millions of dollars in public funds, the District now plans to begin virtual learning for all students on August 24 and, on August 31, begin providing students with the opportunity to return to classes.
“The direct effect of COVID-19 on young people is lately small compared to other hazards and …”The main explanation we stay young at home is to protect adults,” concluded a report published in the British Medical Journal.However, the fitness government says parents deserve to make sure children practice smart hygiene and restrict playing time with other children.
According to knowledge from February to mid-May, the report revealed 44 COVID-19 deaths in others 19 years of age or younger in France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, England and the United States.one-month period, it is believed that 308 deaths are due to decreased respiratory tract infections, adding influenza, in those countries.
“At this point in the pandemic, COVID appears to be less harmful to young people than the flu,” said Sunil Bhopal, co-author of the report and educational clinical lecturer at the University of Newcastle in England.
“We don’t have to wait a full season because, even at its peak in peak countries, COVID has killed fewer young people than the average flu deaths for a year,” Bhopal said.
“Although influenza has caused more deaths than COVID, this can replace the pandemic as the pandemic progresses and much caution is needed to make sure this doesn’t replace,” said Bhopal, honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Sean O’Leary, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, said the emerging number of deaths in the United States may be just an explanation of why to think about COVID-19 and children.
“We know for sure that school-age youth are the main drivers of influenza epidemics on the network, and while this is not the case with COVID, that doesn’t mean they’re spreading it,” he said.-declares.
DeSantis also argued that young people are less likely to spread COVID-19 than the flu virus; however, experts warned that young people’s ability to transmit the virus to others they interact with (parents, grandparents, and even teachers) remains unknown.The perceived threat to teachers, for example, led to a lawsuit between the state’s largest teachers’ union and The DeSantis administration.The Florida Education Association needs Leon County to pass a trial to avoid the state ordinance that requires school districts to open in-person learning study rooms until the end of August.
Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, an infectious disease specialist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, said young people are more likely to have mild or no symptoms of COVID-19 in adults.
“Ultimately, young people can become inflamed and have a tendency to have a less serious illness,” he says.But reopening the school means that young people can simply pass on the disease to others, adding adults who are more likely to expand complications.
“Because schools are connected to the network, they’re not in a bubble, and if the network extension isn’t controlled on the network, the school will most likely reflect that,” he said.finding out if the disease is uncontrollable is whether the positivity rates for others examined by COVID are above 5%.Many Florida counties have been well above that mark since June, rates have fallen this month.
The dangers of returning to school will be hampered depending on the school’s ability to take physical estating measures and require the use of face masks, said Dr. Andrew Pavia, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary.Children’s Hospital..
“This fall, we’ll probably see a lot of young people swell as schools reopen, and this is possibly just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.”Even though most young people have mild or asymptomatic cases, what worries me is the length of the tip of the iceberg,” Pavia said.
He also noted that there is a flu vaccine, which gets between 50% and 70% of children.”The vaccine is not the best, but it reduces the effect of the disease, and with COVID, everyone is at risk and vulnerable.”Pavia said.
Dr. Vidya Mony, an infectious disease specialist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, said knowledge recommends that COVID-19 is not as bad for young people as influenza and that young people are not the main driving force of the pandemic.But, he said, there is still not enough knowledge to say that the threat of COVID-19 is less.”We are informed of anything every day with this.”
Our decision
DeSantis stated that COVID-19 is a decrease for schoolchildren than seasonal influenza.
Studies show that the number of COVID-like deaths and hospitalizations in young people is lower than average influenza rates; however, it is doubtful that these rates of decline among young people are partly due to the closure of schools since March and whether those rates will increase as the study rooms reopen this fall.It is also unclear whether the opening of schools, i.e. in communities with large numbers of other people who tested positive, will lead to a greater spread of the disease.
We consider the claim to be almost true.
“At this level of the pandemic, COVID appears to be less harmful to young people than influenza,” said Sunil Bhopal, co-author of the report and university clinical professor at the University of Newcastle in England.
“We don’t have to wait a full season because, even at its peak in peak countries, COVID has killed fewer young people than the average flu deaths for a year,” Bhopal said.
“Although influenza has caused more deaths than COVID, this can replace the pandemic as the pandemic progresses and much caution is needed to make sure this doesn’t replace,” said Bhopal, honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Sean O’Leary, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, said the growing number of deaths in the United States may be just an explanation of why to think about COVID-19 and children.
“We know for sure that schoolchildren are the main drivers of influenza epidemics on the network, and this is not so much the case with COVID, it doesn’t mean they can’t spread it,” he said.
DeSantis also argued that young people are less likely to transmit COVID-19 than the flu virus.However, experts warned that young people’s ability to transmit the virus to others they interact with (parents, grandparents, and even teachers) is still unknown.The perceived threat to teachers, for example, has led to a lawsuit between the state’s largest teachers’ union and the DeSantis administration.The Florida Education Association needs a Leon County ruling to prevent the state order from requiring school districts to open in-person learning rooms through the end of August.
Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, an infectious disease specialist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, said young people are more likely to have mild or no symptoms of COVID-19 in adults.
“Ultimately, young people can become inflamed and have a tendency to have a less serious illness,” he says.But reopening the school means that young people can simply pass on the disease to others, adding adults who are more likely to expand complications.
“Because schools are connected to the network, they’re not in a bubble, and if the network extension isn’t controlled on the network, the school will most likely reflect that,” he said.finding out if the disease is uncontrollable is whether the positivity rates for other people who have been tested for COVID are above 5%.Many Florida counties have been well above that mark since June, rates have fallen this month.
The dangers of returning to school will be hampered depending on the school’s ability to take physical estating measures and require the use of face masks, said Dr. Andrew Pavia, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary.Children’s Hospital..
“This fall, we’ll probably see a lot of young people swell up when schools reopen, and this is possibly just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.”Even though most young people have mild or asymptomatic cases, what worries me is the length of the tip of the iceberg,” Pavia said.
He also noted that there is a flu vaccine, which gets about 50% to 70% of children.”The vaccine is not the best, but it reduces the effect of the disease, and with COVID, everyone is at risk and vulnerable.”Pavia said.
Dr. Vidya Mony, an infectious disease specialist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, said knowledge recommends that COVID-19 is not as bad for young people as influenza and that young people are not the main driving force of the pandemic.But, he said, there is still not enough knowledge to say that the threat of COVID-19 is less.”We are informed of anything every day with this.”
Our decision
DeSantis stated that COVID-19 is a decrease for schoolchildren than seasonal influenza.
Studies show that the number of COVID-related deaths and hospitalizations in young people is lower than average influenza rates.Still, it is doubtful that these rates of decline among young people are due to school closures since March, and whether rates will rise as the study rooms reopen this fall.It is also unclear whether the opening of schools, especially in communities with large numbers of positive people, will lead to an additional spread of the disease.
We consider the claim to be almost true.
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