Coronavirus May Pose a New Risk to Younger Patients: Strokes https://t.co/xVsnyAHcmd— Zolan Kanno-Youngs (@KannoYoungs) May 15, 2020
I will note that this ain't exactly news. Neither is the inflammatory syndrome that is sending 70% of the children suffering from it to ICU. But this is the President's advice on re-opening schools:
“I think that lots of things should happen,” Trump said. “I don’t think that you should have 70-year-old teachers back yet, they should wait until everything is gone … but we want to see our schools back, we want to see our country start to work again.”And here I was quite sure it was school that contributed to massive depression, drugs, and suicide. You know at the end there he's just listing off bad things, trying to make the cure sound worse than the disease.
“Our country has to get back,” he said, adding that the lockdowns “causes death also.”
“It causes massive depression, it causes drugs, it causes suicide,” Trump said.
70 year old teachers? Believe me, they've all retired. A classroom is no place for a septuagenarian. And being 70 doesn't make you any more at risk than adolescents or children. There's a reason many colleges won't reopen their classrooms this fall.
I also don't know of any parents who want their schools back if it puts their children at risk. Parents are funny that way. Trump, apparently, wouldn't know. Besides, this is what he said at the same press conference:
Trump pauses his remarks on vaccine development to note that the loud honking in the background is from truckers who are protesting in favor of him, calling it a “sign of love.”— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) May 15, 2020
The truckers are protesting low shipping rates during the pandemic and are seeking gov’t support.
The man pretty much lives in his own reality. We should not rush to join him.
My son got home Wednesday and we had the follow up appointment (by video call) with our pediatrician today. The official diagnosis from the hospital is the inflammatory syndrome. He never tested positive for coronavirus, but a third of the young people with it don't either. We were very lucky, we brought him in before it was severe (although a fever of 104 and other serious symptoms) and they aggressively treated him. Because my family is still in NY, they were very aware of what was happening downstate and working with the state health department. Fingers crossed his blood work will continue to improve. What parent would want to expose their loved ones to this? As the pediatrician told my wife, with the inflammatory syndrome, treating children just got a lot harder. They get fevers all the time and standard practice is mostly to let them run their course. How do you now distinguish those common causes of fever from this much more serious syndrome at the earlier stages? We are going to risk this so people can crowd into bars, get tattoos and sing at church?
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