Pediatric Icus News Today

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What were seeing is much more serious infections. so it certainly is worrisome. many pediatric icus in the country are full at the present time. >> and a quick reminder for those who are not familiar with rsv, what is that? >> a virus thats spread predominantly through touch that is significant in kids. they get much more symptomatic. its an upper respiratory infection not spread through droplets, predominantly through touching. >> when you look at covid -- i want to look at information that cam...

The things with dough care about. household and protection against long covid. those are all good facts of things that should make every american say well i should go out and get a booster. but as you point out, its not happening. so that coinciding with what were watching in the southern hemisphere which is pretty rocky flu season if it we have very few people kind of protected against another wave of whatever variant, the newer variants that comes after ba 5 or 4.6 or some other version. we do...

Lets peel back the layers and questions over whether tests can detect omicron. here is what we know now. hospitals are at maximum capacity again and that includes pediatric icus. so headlines that are opposed to twitter diagnosis that omicron is mild is clearly wrong. question. how can something be mild if it can damage your organs for life? its a lot of changing information coming at us at once and a lot of heated debate over what it means. after two years people are sick and tired of feeling s...

Vaccinated? the parents should get to choose, so we wont go to the classroom? where does it end? does it ever end? >> the pediatric icus are full with kids of covid. i have three kids who. pete: many of which have other. >> did you invite me on here to yell at me. pete: no, i expected -- i mean, this is an interesting debate. because you are arguing for some level of online education that the unions really arent part of the problem here and that kids need to get vaccinated to solve but there is ...

In terms of pediatric icu admissions. anecdotally, it is looking pretty dire. all the pediatric icus are filling up with kids. this is even before school starts. so the big unknown is what happens when schools begin? unfortunately, the timing is terrible in many louisiana parishes. schools are going to open next week. here in houston, for instance, august 23rd, we tend to do this earlier in the south than in the north. will this be an accelerant? the bottom line, i think the most important point...

Concerned, and i understand your concern. im a mom. i double and triple checked before i had my kids vaccinated, kids are not immune from this. we are seeing pediatric icus full. colleagues of mine are seeing kids with long covid. this is very, very real. a lot of kids just have sniffles, but a lot dont and i want to urge all parents out there to strongly reconsider their position. >> that said, we are now what, 48 hours away from thanksgiving dinner for a lot of people and if you are having din...

Long covid, which means your symptoms dont really get better in a couple of weeks and this is a pretty serious thing. those kids are fatigued, they have the brain fog that makes it hard for them to function effectively in class then theres this other conditions called misc. multisystem inflammatory syndrome of children, which is very serious and is putting a lot of kids in pediatric icus. its treatable, not generally fatal, but its a very serious threat to the health of that child. so you put th...