Will You Get a Booster Shot?

[rosarugosa]

If they keep offering them fattening foods it will. I have gained a lot of weight at my current job because of this.

Not necessarily. I never "caught" obesity from co-workers, family members or friends.

[happystuff]

Not necessarily. I never "caught" obesity from co-workers, family members or friends.

Too bad it doesn't work, rosa, as I would LOVE to "catch" skinny from my thin co-workers, family members or friends!!!!

[Yppej]

Things like gun violence are described as an epidemic and social diseases like this are often described surprisingly well using an epidemiological framework.

I wonder if anyone ever tries to describe gun violence as genetic rather than viral.

[jp1]

A study came out of South Africa today that found that the J&J shot works just as well against delta as it did in the original trials. I still may decide to get a supplemental of one of the mRNAs but will hold off for now. If I were at higher risk from the various known comorbidities I’d probably reach a different decision.

[Simone]

Can someone link to a Covid data set where there is a discrete category for ages 0-12?
I would like to see the national figures for cases, hospitalizations, and death among children for whom there is no vaccine currently. International figures would be helpful, too.
I think young children should be among those we consider when we're deciding whether or not to wear masks as it seems we can transmit the Delta variant whether or not we are vaccinated.
Thanks.

[Yppej]

Simone here is a link:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...vid-by-age-us/

Of over 600,000 deaths 337 are among children under 18 years old.

[Simone]

Simone here is a link:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...vid-by-age-us/

Of over 600,000 deaths 337 are among children under 18 years old.

Thanks, Jeppy, but what I'm trying to do is focus in specifically on ages 0-12. Those are the kids for whom there is no vaccine.
Trying to figure out what extra steps to take, if any, to try to protect them.

[bae]

Thanks, Jeppy, but what I'm trying to do is focus in specifically on ages 0-12. Those are the kids for whom there is no vaccine.
Trying to figure out what extra steps to take, if any, to try to protect them.

Well, they better figure it out soon:

In Florida, which has the second-highest rate of new cases per capita after Louisiana, children's hospitals and staff are "overwhelmed," said Dr. Aileen Marty, an infectious disease expert at Florida International University.

"The numbers of cases in our hospitals in children and our children's hospitals are completely overwhelmed," Marty told CNN's Jim Sciutto on Friday evening.

"Our pediatricians, the nursing, the staff are exhausted, and the children are suffering. And it is absolutely devastating. ... Our children are very much affected. We've never seen numbers like this before," she said.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/healt...day/index.html

[iris lilies]

Well, they better figure it out soon:



https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/healt...day/index.html

They may have to pivot opposite of how St. Louis did last year by setting up the Children’s hospitals to accept adult non-critical care patients.

In Florida more space may need to be devoted to nom critical under 18 patients.

Don’t accuse me of saying this all is easy because of course it is not.

[Simone]

Maybe the data are becoming more available.
I found this in an Orlando Sentinel article:
COVID-19 positive cases in Florida’s children are at an all-time high. During the week of July 23 to 29, Florida reported 10,785 new cases in children under 12, with an 18.2% positivity rate. People 12 to 19-year-olds had 11,048 new cases, with a 22.2% positivity rate statewide — the second-highest positivity rate of any age group.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coro...twe-story.html

Unhappily, must again consider what risk we vaccinated parents/grandparents/family pose to young children. So many questions arise about safety from pregnancy onward.