Minimizers love to claim without evidence that children do not get infected with COVID-19. In New South Whales more than 20,000 children caught COVID in the first 2 weeks of school. In a recent study published in JAMA Network found 24% of parents were found to be hiding their child’s COVID infections. 21% allowed their children to break quarantine or isolation rules. The bottom line is that parents want those germ factories out of the house, to hell with others.
The vast majority of children have had COVID and passed it on to parents and grand parents. Children are the primary driving force for the spread of the COVID virus. Pfizer’s vaccine for 5- to 11-year-old was 68% effective in December. But just more than a month later, the effectiveness dropped to 12%. Clearly vaccines are not preventing infection. They do offer protection against infections that are severe enough to cause hospitalizations.
“About 20-30% of children who get COVID-19 will have long COVID,” warned UC Davis Health, a major academic hospital system in California, on its website. Roughly 16 million children in the U.S. alone may have suffered from long COVID. That’s a whole lot of long tern sick children. That is our new normal, of disability and shorter life spans for the next generation.