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Delta and children
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- Dr. John Campbell
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- Sep 22, 2026
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- 1264
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Summary
US, 20% of cases in under 18s Cases https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases Hospitalizations https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions Florida, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi Vaccinations https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends In children 7.1 million fully vaccinated, 12 to 17s representing 39 % of 16- to 17-year-olds and 27 % of 12 to 15s Pentagon Mandatory vaccination for 2 million Texas Hospitals at capacity Florida Cases + 22,903 (a pandemic high) 179 pediatric patients K – 12 opens today Governor, no mandates in the state of Florida (Arizona, Texas) CDC, 27th July, everyone should wear masks in schools Any school superintendent that mandates masks risks losing their salary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CACRb3sTa6k Paediatricians disagree Dr Aileen Marty, Florida International University our children's hospitals are completely overwhelmed Our pediatricians, the nursing staff, are exhausted, and the children are suffering It is absolutely devastating Our children are very much affected We've never seen numbers like this before https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/08/10/hundreds-us-children-hospital-covid-should-uk-worried/ Pfizer and Moderna, vaccines for 5 – 11 years olds by end on the year US Children in hospital, 1,450 400 child deaths from covid so far, (34 to 200 die from seasonal flu each year) Last 7 days, 94,000 child cases last week Dr Mark Kline, Children's Hospital New Orleans I've never seen anything like it We are seeing children fall ill that we just simply didn't see in the first year of the pandemic, before the delta variant came along Child admissions, zero to 20 in two weeks Illness duration in children of at least 28 days https://www.the…