CDC Warns Parents To Be On Lookout For Acute Flaccid Myelitis In Children

(CNN) — Parents and pediatricians need to be on the lookout in the coming months for a rare, paralyzing condition that affects young children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

The polio-like condition, called acute flaccid myelitis or AFM, tends to peak every other year, and the last surge of cases was in 2018, when 238 cases were diagnosed across the US, the CDC said.

This year is likely to see another upsurge but things will be complicated by the coronavirus pandemic.

“AFM is a priority for CDC as we prepare for a possible outbreak this year,” Dr. Thomas Clark, deputy director of CDC’s Division of Viral Diseases, told reporters.

“We are concerned that, in the midst of a Covid pandemic, that cases might not be recognized as AFM, or we are concerned that parents might be worried about taking their child to the doctor if they develop something as serious as limb weakness,” Clark added.

The CDC released results of a study done after the last outbreak in 2018. It put almost all the affected children into the hospital. Patients were 5 years old on average.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/08/05/acute-flaccid-myelitis-afm-symptoms-cdc-cnn/

Scaring the people with a new disease that targets children. Attempt to target POTUS back to school narrative. These people are sick. We are the cure!

Work on hydroxychloroquine delayed promising studies of convalescent plasma

Robust scientific studies on convalescent plasma, a potentially promising COVID-19 treatment, have gotten off to a slow start in the U.S., in part because some researchers were more focused on enrolling their sickest patients in other trials, including some for hydroxychloroquine.

"You always have that hindsight and say, oh man, we should have put our efforts into something else," said Dr. Todd Rice, an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Early on in the pandemic, Vanderbilt was involved in multiple clinical trials, including those on remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine. Even though the hospital system had also developed a randomized, placebo-controlled trial for convalescent plasma, Rice said, the other trials took priority.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/work-hydroxychloroquine-delayed-promising-studies-convalescent-plasma-n1235867

Now they want to blame HCQ. Do the lies ever end? This is not going to end well for them…the people are going to be cranky when they wake up.