The people in Florida just never got it; it was the same story in 2020 during their first massive outbreak. All the dead people aren't coming back and the current toll is absurd given that vaccines exist that make serous cases from the disease fairly rare. It's amazing really that 325 dead a day doesn't phase them. I do think the kids in hospital or dying ( even in small numbers ) has to at least make some somewhat uncomfortable even if they won't admit it.
The Deniers can no longer go to one of their main excuses last year that it was people going to die soon that died. That was never true; US life expectancies dropped in 2020. Now it's even less true now as a significant portion of those dying are ages 30-60. Data and logic however doesn't phase many of the idiots they just scour the internet looking for anything they think excuses their behavior.
My focus is on Covid Delta Variant is now targeting younger adults and
children...as in increasing Hospitalizations and ICU admissions to overload Pediatric Hospitals. The latter I'm the most concerned about.
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Delta Is Bad News for Kids
More children are falling ill because more are being infected.
...But within a week, six of the eight kids on the trip—all of them too young to be eligible for vaccines—had newly diagnosed coronavirus infections as well.
The infected group included two of the cardiologist’s three sons. Both boys, ages 5 and 11, had just a smattering of cold-like symptoms, the cardiologist said. Even so, the entire ordeal has been rough on their household, which is now split—quite literally—into isolation zones. “My middle son is negative,” she said. “So we have to keep our children on separate floors of our house.” The 7-year-old is missing the first few days of second grade to quarantine. The eldest son, an ardent soccer player about to start sixth grade, had a spate of chest pain and now needs cardiac clearance before he’s able to take the field again...
“It’s been surreal this past month,” Evelyn Obregon, a pediatric resident at the University of Florida Shands Children’s Hospital, told me. “I’ve never seen this many COVID-positive cases.” Her state is
consistently reporting among the highest numbers of pediatric coronavirus cases in the country. Obregon has grown accustomed to treating about five kids with COVID-19 a night; last year, a more usual number was one. In mid-July, she treated a 2-year-old gripped with fever and dehydration.
“I was shocked,” she told me. “I had never seen a toddler getting infected like this before.” Her patients are only getting younger, sometimes just weeks old. Most of her patients, she said, are from
unvaccinated families...
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