⚠️Totally “mild”—US pediatric #COVID19 hospitalizations nearly 2x last year’s all-time high. Kids shouldn’t be hospitalized—kids shouldn’t be getting #LongCovid. Kids have their whole lives ahead of them. Let’s protect the kids. 🙏
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2) What a sad way for kids to spend Xmas vacation—moreover these infected kids will go back to school next week and infect more kids - tragic. ➡️ The worst pediatric COVID hospitalization state isn’t Florida — #1 is Texas.
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3) Florida is just behind Texas in pediatric COVID hospitalizations— Florida may soon overtake its summer #DeltaVariant peak at this rate.
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4) Can pediatric COVID hospitalizations get worse than 2x? Yes— in France 🇫🇷, pediatric hospitalizations in kids 0-9 are already 2.3x. twitter.com/VIRAL_FR/statu
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5) Theres also little to no evidence that #Omicron is milder for #LongCovid… thus, take it seriously, please! 👇
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NOT MILDER FOR LONG COVID: “#LongCovid can happen no matter what virus variant. There's no evidence that there's any difference between delta or beta or now omicron” ~Fauci.
“10-30+ % of people will go on to have persistence of symptoms”—of billions 
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6) Reminder that #Omicron is not really intrinsically milder much at all… a major 🇬🇧 study says it’s not really milder once you adjust for vaccines & past infections. Omicron causes more reinfections & breakthroughs—which at first glance makes % hospitalized look👀 much milder👇
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ADJUSTED SEVERITY of Omicron vs Delta—Need to discuss *intrinsic severity* versus *observed severity* of #Omicron, which reinfects & evasive against 2-vaccine shots. New 
study found that after adjusting for factors, Omicron is only slightly intrinsically milder—2%-12% (red)
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7) Schools are reopening soon. Don’t let #Omicron be the deceptive Trojan Horse 🐎 of the pandemic and be lulled into complacency. Hospitalization numbers soaring doesn’t lie.
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“Mild” but hospitals overloaded.
“Mild” but healthcare workers burnt out.
“Mild” but thousands of flights cancelled.
“Mild” but no booster shots for kids in under-ventilated schools.
“Mild” brain damage.
“Mild” collapse of society.
…“Mild” my ass.
#COVID19 #Omicron #LongCovid
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8) Make sure to swab your kid’s throat (or at least the mouth) on COVID tests when trying to find #Omicron — Omicron is positive more on throat swabs than nasal recently according to many experts… see thread 🧵 below 👇
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Why you should #SwabYourThroat…. Negative via nose… Positive via the throat. #Omicron is very different from all other variants. We need to adapt to changing testing strategies.
P.s. This story made my day! twitter.com/tweetmommybop/…
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9) there is no universe where you can argue that a huge 50% SPIKE in #COVID19 hospitalization nationwide in just 5 days in a country of 330 million people (🇺🇸) can be ignored. And with holiday reporting delays, it will only get worse. Brace yourselves. Protect your families. 🙏
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In the next 1-2 mos. the US will see the worst surge of COVID hospitalizations since the beginning of the pandemic
It's driven mostly by the unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated
Hospitalizations are up +50% in 5 days—despite a delay in data reporting due to holidays
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I have a 4 y/o. Cannot be vaccinated because of the Pfizer failed trial. What do you suggest we do? Pull her out of school? How do we protect our unvaccinated kids?
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Moderna trial for kids 2-4 finishing in a few months. Pfizer is also fully approved. Ask your doctor.
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