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A Third of COVID Cases in Dallas County Are Children
A followup to yesterday's article - Only 2% of Dallas Kids Have Taken the Jab [Dallas Morning News] More than 3,465, or 33%, of the county’s 10,538 cases are in children ages 0 to 17. Cases in school age groups have rapidly increased in the last two weeks, jumping 75% for adolescents ages 14 to 17 from the week ending Aug. 26 to the week ending Sept. 1 and 61% for children ages 5 to 13 in that same time period.Back to school, spreading infection. While pediatric COVID-19 cases are climbing, other age groups have been trending downward for the last month following an early summer surge in cases led by the highly-contagious omicron subvariants. Total US seven-day average cases are half what they were a month ago. It’s too soon to tell whether North Texas will see another winter spike in COVID-19 cases like the area did last year with the emergence of the omicron variant, Chang said, but it seems likely that the flu will be stronger this year compared to the last two years of the pandemic as public health measures like masking ease. But we can plant the seed of fear today. Flu shots are available, and it is safe to get a flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine together. Influenza deaths were hundreds per week before COVID and have been tens per week ever since May 2020 - even as masking restrictions were relaxed. Posted by: Bobby 2022-09-09 |
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