Mississippi eighth grader dies a day after positive coronavirus test
A school official in Mississippi confirmed that a teenager passed away over the weekend, only one day after testing positive for COVID.
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Mississippi eighth grader dies a day after positive coronavirus test
- Thread starter fluffydelusions
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Those parents failed her. They had plenty of opportunity to get her vaccinated and decided instead to unnecessarily risk their child's life.
Mississippi always pissed me off because it's our most populated black state with almost 40% African American but the political fuckery is so off the scale that they were able to have a fucking Confederate flag as their state flag until this year. It should be blue, but it's red as fuck and shit like this shouldn't happen.
Sandy Hook was 27 victims on one day. Much how people talk about us having a 9/11 every day with how many people die from covid, I'm afraid we may start talking about a "sandy hook every day" if we have double digits under 18 students dying from covid daily :(
Unlike the original COVID, has there been research to suggest that the delta variant doesn't discriminate between age groups to the extent that the original did?
Seems like children are being thrown into the fire under the assumption that, since COVID had "minimal effect" on kids, that the variant will likewise do the same.
I can only speak from my experiences growing up in the rural south, but the black population was never a monolith. Black families who were not farmers by trade were vastly different than the ones who had been farming for decades. From what I've experienced, a swath of black farmers are not very different from their white counterparts. Very conservative-minded.
Seems like children are being thrown into the fire under the assumption that, since COVID had "minimal effect" on kids, that the variant will likewise do the same.
I can only speak from my experiences growing up in the rural south, but the black population was never a monolith. Black families who were not farmers by trade were vastly different than the ones who had been farming for decades. From what I've experienced, a swath of black farmers are not very different from their white counterparts. Very conservative-minded.
Hate to break it to you...but we wouldn't be here if they cared and clearly they do not
The parents will be carrying that burden til the day they die. And the folks in public leadership who led them to this path won't ever feel a thing.
I say this knowing that you can't just "hurry up" clinical trials and research, that isn't how it works, but that still being said they NEED TO HURRY UP and get some vaccine approved for every age.
This shit freaks me out since I still can't vaccinate my 10 year old.
Right there with ya. School started today and I'm going to be nervous as hell until he can finally get the shot.
Obviously we don't know the child's vaccination status but I guess given the state this happened in we are assuming this child was not vaccinated?
13… and probably not vaccinated.
Her parents failed her, the government failed her, and her school district too. I really believe the vaccine should be mandated for every kid that is of age to be able to attend school, just like all the other vaccines kids have to get.
*sigh* the news and headlines are probably going to really upset me these next few weeks and months.
The vaccine for kids under age 12 can't come soon enough.
Her parents failed her, the government failed her, and her school district too. I really believe the vaccine should be mandated for every kid that is of age to be able to attend school, just like all the other vaccines kids have to get.
*sigh* the news and headlines are probably going to really upset me these next few weeks and months.
The vaccine for kids under age 12 can't come soon enough.
So sad. Not sure of the status of the child, but she was failed by her parents, and the government.
i thought i read somewhere that Delta spreads almost as easily as chickenpox. But that delta isn't any more inherently deadly than the original strain. It may be that kids are getting a higher viral load that makes them sicker. But i am certainly no doctor or epidemiologist.
I remember hearing about infection rates being more significant with the variant but I haven't heard much about any difference in rate of symptoms
If you click on that article, at the bottom there's just people arguing about what she died from.
It's the same arguments I heard a year ago when this all started. "Yeah so-and-so had Covid and died, but what they don't tell you is they had a heart condition! That was the real cause of death!". Its all just so tiring.
It's the same arguments I heard a year ago when this all started. "Yeah so-and-so had Covid and died, but what they don't tell you is they had a heart condition! That was the real cause of death!". Its all just so tiring.
It's actually more transmissible than chickenpox and less transmissible than measles. It's about 6-9x more transmissible than the original strain. Hospitalization rate among kids is obviously much better than adults, but it's not good given how quickly it spreads. It's genuinely terrifying sending kids back to school this fall, with deltas increased transmissibility, it's spreading among a vaccinated population faster than it did without on the original strain. Not to mention the demographic that are likely to be parents fall in among the least vaccinated population (25-40).
Schools could be a powderkeg this fall.
It's bullshit on so many levels. People with comorbidities are still people. They were alive before they caught COVID. We shouldn't be breathing a sigh of relief that "it's mostly old people" or "it's mostly people with underlying conditions." These are still people.
If you'd like to learn more about how bad Mississippi is read this:
Ole Miss riot of 1962 - Wikipedia
We had to deploy 30,000 troops to Mississippi to get the white supremacists to stand down.
My guess is these parents are the religious types that would say "this is all part of gods plan.
This.
If I could get my 3-year-old vaccinated today, I sure as hell would. I know that the chances of this happening in Westchester County, NY are significantly lower than in the "hot zone" states, but the threat is real, and it scares the crap out of me.
I really hope the parents did everything they could to prevent this. If they didn't may god have mercy on their souls. If they did then my heart breaks for them.
I'm very curious where these numbers are from, because that's far higher than the CDC information.
One thing to keep in mind is that once the vaccine has full FDA approval (probably just a few weeks away), doctors could make the decision to prescribe it on a case-by-case basis to those under 12. Talk to your GP or pediatrician.
I have my own 13 year old daughter, can't imagine how crushed I would be if I lost her. No matter what this child's vaccination status was my heart goes out to her parents. No one should have to bury their child.
The decision to keep daughter on edge online classes for another year makes more and more sense as the days tic on. Fuck.
How exactly?
Even the graphic provided in that document 1.2-1.5 people infected per infection (transmissibility) at the lower end with the original strain and 9.5 at the higher end for Delta. It's why I put a range of 6-9x, the data is obviously still evolving on it but falls pretty closely within the range of the CDC in this instance which would be around 4.5-8x based on that report.
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We started school two weeks ago and I worry about my 8 year old every day. He randomly tells me yesterday, "oh, my friend's first day was today because he was out for covid" like it wasn't even notable anymore.
The chart was borrowed from the New York times.How exactly?
Even the graphic provided in that document 1.2 people infected per infection (transmissibility) at the lower end with the original strain and 9.5 at the higher end for Delta.
They underestimated chicken pox, which actually has an R0 of around 10.
The CDC data shows Delta having an R0 of somewhere between 5 and ~9. Which is quite a range, and it's misleading to simply take the higher value.
The Delta Variant Isn't As Contagious As Chickenpox. But It's Still Highly Contagious
A leaked CDC document compared it to the highly contagious children's disease. Data does not support this claim. Nonetheless, the variant is one of the world's most contagious respiratory diseases.
www.npr.org
And we're supposed to hope these ppl will come to their senses, can be reasoned with.....
let's not completely absolve individual responsibility for their choices. The parents are legal adults who have the responsibility of making the right choices for their kids. If they graduated high school, then that degree signifies that they have proven competence to some degree of literacy and critical thinking. Other adults who also graduated high school made the choice to vaccinate their kids when presented with the same information and misinformation as this parent was. Yes, high school quality of education greatly varies in an intersectional socioeconomic manner in a racist education system, I'm not ignoring that. But I am saying that nonetheless, these parents are responsible for using their evolved Homo sapiens brain to protect their children. These parents failed their kid. We don't have direct control over other people's actions, including Fox News pundits; we only have control over our own actions and responses, and these parents chose the wrong information despite unprecedented vaccination availability and information being at your fingertips with Google. And it led to a dead kid. Yes, systemically, the media and government are at fault for this, but on an individual level, these parents could have protected themselves and their child easily, and they didn't. This is their consequence unfortunately. I hope the guilt drives them to be better critical thinkers about the information they choose in the future.
I was repeating what I read elsewhere, your original post doesn't discredit that. The transmissibility I stated falls within an accurate range and it may or may not be more transmissible than chickenpox according to the CDC.The chart was borrowed from the New York times.
They underestimated chicken pox, which actually has an R0 of around 10.
The CDC data shows Delta having an R0 of somewhere between 5 and ~9. Which is quite a range, and it's misleading to simply take the higher value.
The Delta Variant Isn't As Contagious As Chickenpox. But It's Still Highly Contagious
A leaked CDC document compared it to the highly contagious children's disease. Data does not support this claim. Nonetheless, the variant is one of the world's most contagious respiratory diseases.
I'm also not American, so I apologize for not referring to a foreign health authority to support my arguments.
Same. I go back to teaching next week, and my kid goes back the following week. Everyone will be masked, and my college students should all be vaccinated, but my kid is only 6, and he can't get vaxxed yet. I hate it.