Arkansas Children's hospitals report record high number of children hospitalized with Covid-19

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Source: CNN

CNN)Arkansas Children's hospitals report a record number of children are hospitalized with Covid-19 as the illness continues to prey upon the state's unvaccinated population.

The hospitals, located in Little Rock and Springdale, said 24 pediatric patients were hospitalized with Covid-19 on Wednesday, a 50% increase over any previous peak during the pandemic. Of the 24 children, seven are in intensive care and two are on ventilators, the hospital said. More than half of them could have been vaccinated -- anyone 12 and over is eligible for a free shot -- but none of those hospitalized had done so.

"We're seeing a real surge with the Delta variant that we did not see previously," Dr. Rick Barr, chief clinical officer at Arkansas Children's Hospital, told CNN. "This is the worst that we've seen it for kids, absolutely."

In general, children have less severe illness from Covid-19, but they are not immune to the virus and can occasionally have serious issues. Barr said child hospitalizations have become more common recently -- and parents are taken aback when they see the level of care their children need.

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[SheltieLover]

1. 1 in 12 of all infected kids suffers with long haul

Per Dr. Ding.

[mpcamb]

9. Idiot anti-vaxers caused this virus to morph into successively worse versions.

This could have been stemmed long ago.

[Botany]

2. Arkansas Governor Hutchinson declares public health emergency, says masks will ....

... not be required and "we're going to be wide open"

Link to tweet

I have come to the conclusion that the GOP/Fox and so on wanted the virus to have a comeback.

[mucifer]

3. So embrace the emergency and blame President Biden

[Botany]

6. "They" know that masks*, social distancing, and the vaccines works but "they" sabotaged, ....

... stopped, or talked down those programs through their hate talk TV, radio, internet, and right wing
networks of Christian Evangelical pastors and or churches. But why? My only answer is they are so
craven they have made the political calculus that having the virus and the disease keep going is good
for their side. This is a Mitch McConnell on steroids have people hurt and the economy falling so "the
people" will blame Biden and company. BTW I might be wrong on all that but I don't think so.

* Vietnam a country of 90 million + people had something like a total of 35 people die from C-19
and they used masks.

[Initech]

8. Get ready for the Arkansas variant!

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4. Heartbreaking stuff about to unfold across the unvaxxed states

Terrible. I'm not going to judge these people who will be burying their children in droves, though judgment is probably needed.

[inthewind21]

5. I WIll

I'll judge them. They are unfit parents and should have their kids taken away. If their kids have attended public school, they HAVE BEEN VACCINATED. For polio, and measles and small pox and and and. This is nothing more than a political choice, and they are using their kids as the props.

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7. It's not that simple sometimes it's the history of racist doctors experimenting on POC that

causes people to not vaccinate.

[C Moon]

13. Also, sadly, there is no vaccine for children under 12.

[Initech]

11. I will absolutely judge.

These fucking assholes who wouldn't get their kids vaccinated because some assholes on Facebook equated vaccines with autism (which isn't true) told them so are beyond selfish. Hell they probably don't realize that vaccines are the reason why they are alive.

[roamer65]

10. The parents of the children who could have been vaxed need to be criminally charged.

[Jon King]

12. All these kids also had known risk factors....

Doctors say pretty much every Covid serious reaction among kids are with children with obesity, diabetes, asthma or chronic lung disease, sickle cell disease, or immunosuppression.

So these parents have kids with these conditions and refuse to get them vaccinated....thats criminal level negligent parenting.