09-12-2021, 04:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2021, 06:21 PM by danbrotherston.)
Hey tomh009, thanks again for the great coverage.
Given that there are now some concerning misconceptions being posted here, do you want to break out the age groups of the people hospitalized with COVID.
For example, in Alberta, there are over 2,500 children under 9 IN HOSPITAL with COVID.***
It's very frustrating to continually hear the misconception that COVID doesn't affect you people and children continue to be spread. It affects them less, but infecting our entire child population with COVID is a bad policy.
***Edit: This is actually a statistic from the spring wave, when there were ~20,000 people in hospital in Alberta. It still remains the case that children ARE impacted by the disease, sometimes very severely. Worse, this wave is likely to impact children more severely given that they are the largest unvaccinated group, AND ALSO indications that Delta may affect children more severely than previous variants.
***Edit 2: Apparently I misread it, that's the total number of cases, not hospitalized cases, which I cannot find anywhere.
Given that there are now some concerning misconceptions being posted here, do you want to break out the age groups of the people hospitalized with COVID.
For example, in Alberta, there are over 2,500 children under 9 IN HOSPITAL with COVID.***
It's very frustrating to continually hear the misconception that COVID doesn't affect you people and children continue to be spread. It affects them less, but infecting our entire child population with COVID is a bad policy.
***Edit: This is actually a statistic from the spring wave, when there were ~20,000 people in hospital in Alberta. It still remains the case that children ARE impacted by the disease, sometimes very severely. Worse, this wave is likely to impact children more severely given that they are the largest unvaccinated group, AND ALSO indications that Delta may affect children more severely than previous variants.
***Edit 2: Apparently I misread it, that's the total number of cases, not hospitalized cases, which I cannot find anywhere.