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Will you accept the science that contradicts you?
Posted on: July 24, 2020 at 12:04:29 CT
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Children and young adults between the ages of 10 and 19 can transmit the coronavirus in a household just as much as older people, according to new research in South Korea.
Researchers from the South Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who studied reports of 59,073 contacts of 5,706 COVID-19 patients also found that kids 9 and younger transmitted the virus in their households at rates that were much lower.
The study found that the highest COVID-19 rate at 18.6 percent for household contacts of school-age children and the lowest rates at 5.3 percent for kids younger than 9 was the middle of school closures.
“Rates were higher for contacts of children than adults,” they wrote. “These risks largely reflected transmission in the middle of mitigations and therefore might characterize transmission dynamics during school closure.”
Overall, the researchers detected the illness in 11.8 percent of 10,592 household contacts.
And there is this:
A doctor at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, has highlighted a story that many young people could learn from. A granddaughter contracted coronavirus at a party, then killed her grandfather by giving him the disease.
Chief medical officer Dr. Joseph Chang treated 170 patients with COVID-19 on Tuesday. He said one of them had gone to a party with friends and contracted COVID-19.
"Before she was symptomatic, she visited her 80-year-old grandparents and they got sick," Chang told local news outlet WFAA.
When the granddaughter got sick she was treated in the hospital's intensive care unit, where she was put into a medically induced coma and was given a ventilator to help her breathe.
Ten days later the young patient was conscious again, only to find out that her grandfather had also been put into intensive care and died the previous day.
When patients are placed on a ventilator they are at a crisis point in their illness. Experts predict that around 40% and 50% of patients die after going on ventilation, regardless of how healthy they may be before they contracted the virus. Chang estimates that around 1 percent of COVID-19 patients die at Parkland Hospital.
"It's far lower than nationally reported rates," said Chang of his hospital. "But who's the 1 percent? Do you want to be the 1 percent? I don't know who the 1 percent is going to be. You know, no one really does."
Researchers from the South Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who studied reports of 59,073 contacts of 5,706 COVID-19 patients also found that kids 9 and younger transmitted the virus in their households at rates that were much lower.
The study found that the highest COVID-19 rate at 18.6 percent for household contacts of school-age children and the lowest rates at 5.3 percent for kids younger than 9 was the middle of school closures.
“Rates were higher for contacts of children than adults,” they wrote. “These risks largely reflected transmission in the middle of mitigations and therefore might characterize transmission dynamics during school closure.”
Overall, the researchers detected the illness in 11.8 percent of 10,592 household contacts.
And there is this:
A doctor at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, has highlighted a story that many young people could learn from. A granddaughter contracted coronavirus at a party, then killed her grandfather by giving him the disease.
Chief medical officer Dr. Joseph Chang treated 170 patients with COVID-19 on Tuesday. He said one of them had gone to a party with friends and contracted COVID-19.
"Before she was symptomatic, she visited her 80-year-old grandparents and they got sick," Chang told local news outlet WFAA.
When the granddaughter got sick she was treated in the hospital's intensive care unit, where she was put into a medically induced coma and was given a ventilator to help her breathe.
Ten days later the young patient was conscious again, only to find out that her grandfather had also been put into intensive care and died the previous day.
When patients are placed on a ventilator they are at a crisis point in their illness. Experts predict that around 40% and 50% of patients die after going on ventilation, regardless of how healthy they may be before they contracted the virus. Chang estimates that around 1 percent of COVID-19 patients die at Parkland Hospital.
"It's far lower than nationally reported rates," said Chang of his hospital. "But who's the 1 percent? Do you want to be the 1 percent? I don't know who the 1 percent is going to be. You know, no one really does."
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