If the hospitals were really overwhelmed, they wouldn't be terminating employees that don't get vaccinated.
bombSHELL
>electric coffee pot
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/kids-covid-risk-1.6191067
Kids were at low risk of severe COVID early in pandemic before delta variant, study suggests
Findings shouldn't be a reason to skip vaccinations for youth, researchers say
Severe cases of COVID-19 were very rare among Canadian children during the first waves of the pandemic, according to a new study by researchers who warn the findings should not be taken as a reason not to vaccinate youth.
The study was published Monday by the Canadian Medical Association Journal and looked at 264 reported cases of children hospitalized in Canada between March 25 and Dec. 31, 2020, before the more infectious delta variant emerged.
Of those cases, 43 per cent had been hospitalized for another reason, such as a fracture, and it was only after they were admitted that the positive test came to light.
Nearly 34,000 Canadians of all ages were hospitalized during the same time frame.
"If you look at the numbers in total, that's only 150 children hospitalized with COVID during the first two waves here in Canada," said study co-lead author Dr. Fatima Kakkar of Montreal's Ste-Justine Hospital.
"These are very small numbers, when you compare with what has happened in adults."
The study was conducted before the emergence of the more infectious delta variant, which now accounts for most COVID-19 infections in Canada.
The research also took place before COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for youth aged 12 and older. Of the cases studied, 77 involved kids aged 13 to 17.
Pfizer has said it intends to seek authorization soon for a vaccine intended for kids aged five to 11.
Fever, cough common symptoms among hospitalized kids
Researchers originally believed that children may be at higher risk for severe disease, since this is typically seen with respiratory infection in the pediatric population.
Among the 150 children admitted directly because of the coronavirus, the most common symptoms were fever (70 per cent) and cough (34 per cent).
Half had a severe form of the disease, with 21 per cent admitted to intensive care and 13 per cent needing respiratory or cardiac support.
Researchers said that more than three per cent of Canadian children — a high among all age groups in the country — have recently been shown to carry antibodies to COVID-19, indicating that they have been exposed to the virus.
But the relatively small number of pediatric admissions shows that children had less severe infections than adults, even though they were potentially infected more often, Kakkar said.
Overall, 39 per cent of children and youth hospitalized for COVID-19 had at least one co-morbidity, according to the study, and those with severe disease were more likely to have an underlying health condition including obesity, neurological or respiratory issues.
"We often talk about children who have comorbidities and who are sicker … but 60 per cent had no comorbidity," she said.
"They were healthy children who were hospitalized for the disease. On the other hand, when we look at the severity, the most severe cases were in children who had comorbidities, such as obesity, major neurodevelopmental disorders."
Study shouldn't discourage vaccination, author warns
Deaths of children infected with COVID-19 were also very rare, confirming the findings of other studies.
But even with the encouraging conclusions, Kakkar said parents should not take from the study a sense of false security that would discourage them from vaccinating their children, given that the study showed kids who were in good health also ended up in hospital.
We really have to look at the total well-being of the child: what will allow them to have a normal life, to do activities, to play sports, to see friends? It's vaccination. - Dr. Fatima Kakkar
"We do not know, among these children who are in good health, which will be the sickest, and we know that when we have a severe disease, we have consequences," Kakkar said.
"A child intubated in intensive care needs months of rehabilitation, and unfortunately we cannot predict which child will fall into this category."
Unvaccinated children will also be more likely to continue the spread of the virus within their own family and friends.
She also noted the delta variant is much more transmissible and currently wreaking havoc among unvaccinated adults.
"I do not want to discourage parents at all from having their child vaccinated," Kakkar said.
"We really have to look at the total well-being of the child: what will allow them to have a normal life, to do activities, to play sports, to see friends? It's vaccination."
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An inside scoop on how COVID vaccines are being tested on kids
Kids showed almost twice the immune response to Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine compared to adults, says researcher
"12 to 15 year olds had almost twice as good of an immune response as the next age group, 16 to 25, and even a much higher antibody response than adults 18 to 50 or over 65," Dr. Talaat told Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald. "Kids five to 11 had the same immune response as the adolescents, so you expect it to be incredibly effective in that population."
Dr. Talaat is an infectious-disease physician and vaccine scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She said that even though kids tend not to get sick from COVID as frequently or seriously compared to adults, getting this age group vaccinated is crucial in slowing down the pandemic's spread.
"There is absolutely a benefit to protecting the kids. There's also a benefit to society as a whole, because the more people you vaccinate, the less susceptible people the virus will find to replicate in and transmit to other people, and the better control you can get over the pandemic."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pfizer-biontech-covid19-us-vaccine-childen-1.6182150
Pfizer-BioNTech say COVID-19 vaccine safe, protective in kids aged 5-11
CEO of Pfizer says company plans to submit results to regulators 'with urgency'
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech said on Monday their COVID-19 vaccine induced a robust immune response in five- to 11-year-olds, and they plan to ask for authorization to use the vaccine in children in that age range in Canada, the United States, Europe and elsewhere as soon as possible.
The companies said the vaccine generated an immune response in the five- to 11-year-olds in their Phase II/III clinical trial that matched what they had previously observed in 16- to 25-year-olds. The safety profile was also generally comparable to the older age group, they said.
"Since July, pediatric cases of COVID-19 have risen by about 240 per cent in the U.S. — underscoring the public health need for vaccination," Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla said in a news release.
"These trial results provide a strong foundation for seeking authorization of our vaccine for children five to 11 years old, and we plan to submit them to the FDA and other regulators with urgency."
Pfizer Canada spokesperson Christina Antoniou said in an email to CBC News that the company plans to file the data to Health Canada but couldn't provide specific timelines at this time.
"To date, we have been working closely with Health Canada and submitting to them new data regarding this vaccine when it becomes available," she said. "We share the urgency to provide the data that could help support the decision by regulatory authorities to make the vaccine available to school-aged children as early as possible."
Health Canada has already approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people as young as 12 years old.
In a statement to CBC News, Health Canada said that all manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccines authorized in Canada are conducting or planning studies in adolescents and younger children, including children from 6 months to 11 years of age.
It said it anticipates vaccine manufacturers will provide data regarding children in the coming months, but has so far not received any submission for the approval of any COVID-19 vaccine in children under 12 years of age.
Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been linked by regulators to rare cases of heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults, particularly young men. Pfizer said it did not see any instances of heart inflammation in the trial participants.
The information from Pfizer on Monday was reported in a media release, not a scientific publication.
A second U.S. vaccine maker, Moderna, also is studying its shots in elementary school-aged children.
City of Hamilton spokesperson Ava van Heerden said bylaw officers are aware of online groups and websites that oppose the vaccine passport.
"Staff are starting with a progressive enforcement approach to the new regulations through providing education to achieve compliance," she wrote in an email on Friday.
"Bylaw has attended approximately 50 businesses on Wednesday and Thursday. It is important to note that education will take longer at each location as bylaw officers will need to speak to employees, businesses, and patrons."
She added that the bylaw office had received 11 complaints as of early Friday afternoon regarding businesses not enforcing vaccine passports, and the city is investigating all of them. She didn't say which businesses are under investigation.
London Olympics
>Yup just a bit of a learning curve
If you can do real digs on 8kun, then you can figure out linux no problem.
>total well-being of the child: what will allow them to have a normal life? It's vaccination.
>I still think it's a bit too much for 'em.
I almost think that's a good thing. It's like a skill testing question to claim your prize.
You want this machine gun? Prove that you can handle it.
>Answer that then ask yourself, "what do I do?"
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Swedish police investigate Gothenburg blast after four seriously hurt
Four people were seriously hurt in an explosion and fire on Tuesday in the Swedish city of Gothenburg and police are investigating whether an explosive device was placed at the scene.
At least 16 people were taken to hospital after the early morning blast set ablaze an apartment bloc in a central residential area. Fire fighters pulled people from the building as grey smoke billowed out of stairwells and windows.
Three women and one man were treated for serious injuries, a Sahlgrenska University Hospital spokesperson said. Swedish public services radio SR reported that about 25 people had been taken to hospitals around Sweden's second largest city.
Police said they had opened an investigation.
"We believe something has exploded that is not of natural causes," Police spokesperson Thomas Fuxborg told a news conference, adding that something had "probably" been placed at the site of the explosion.
He said the fire was still not under control but that tenants had been evacuated.
Emergency services said they were working to put out fires in the apartment building. They ruled out a gas leak but refrained from speculating on the cause of the explosion.
Anja Almen, who lives in the building, said she heard a commotion from the street just after 5:00 a.m. – around 15 minutes after the explosion.
"I went out on the balcony and I was shocked. There was smoke everywhere, from every stairwell," she said by phone from a nearby church to which she and other tenants were evacuated. "Fire trucks with ladders were pulling people from apartments."
The Nordic country has contended with surging gang crime in recent years, with rival groups employing explosives and fire arms to settle scores.
A report this year showed that Sweden in the last two decades has gone from having one of the lowest rates of gun violence in Europe to having one of the highest.
>feel
>"the best is yet to come"
get vaccinated
or else