political allegiance. as eddie points out, you know, there s a reason why 600,000 americans lost their lives, or 614,000 americans have lost their lives. it is partly due to the sars-2 coronavirus, but in equal measure it was in defiance to all of those things, and it is self-defeating and so heartbreaking. it is not over. we will be looking at delta sweep through the schools, and even though the deaths may not be as high because a lot of older americans are vaccinated, we don t know the full consequences of long covid in children and adolescents. we have seen some of the mris in the adults who have brain degeneration and clinical pictures that resemble the cognitive decline with aging. this is not what we want to subject our young people to, but that s what i m worried about. so we could be looking at long-term neurologic consequences for many years because of this.
children hold enough to get the vaccine, roughly a third of them have gotten the shot and here we are, five, six weeks away from schools reopening and what are the risks for children in fiermts where there are low vaccination rates? well the risks are, unless you have all of the adults and adolescence vaccinated, it is twice as contagious. so we can expect a lot of them to get covid. now what the conservative lobby says is the death rates among young people is quite low. what they omit telling you is that long hauf covid is quite common. they will have gray matter brain degeneration leading to cognitive declines, memory loss, and these are young people that
get long haul covid. a new paper has come out, and what they ve shown is that a significant percentage will actually develop brain matter brain degeneration as a consequence of long haul covid with an uncertain recovery time. and that s important for memory, for cognitive performance. so what you re doing is you re condemning a whole generation of adolescents to neurological injury unnecessarily. i just heard antic dotally from a couple of people who got vaccinated but have tested positive for the delta variant. does that mean that even if their cases are mild, they have a very strong possibility of getting the long haul covid, of having long haul symptoms? you know, that s a great question. i m asked that quite a bit now. and the answer is i don t think we really understand whether break through covid in a vaccinated individual is the same in someone who s not been
a new paper s just come out from the group at oxford university. the neuroscience center there. and what they ve shown is that a high a significant percentage will actually develop gray matter, brain degeneration as a consequence of long haul covid with an uncertain recovery time. and that s important for memory, for cognitive performance. and so what you re doing is you re condemning a whole generation of adolescents to neurologic injury totally unnecessarily. let me ask you, i just anecdotally heard of a couple of people who i know who have tested who got vaccinated but have tested positive with the delta variant. does that mean that even if their cases are mild, they have a very strong possibility of getting the long haul covid, of having long haul symptoms? you know, that s a great question. i m asked that quite a bit now. and the answer is i don t think we really understand whether breakthrough covid in a vaccinated individual is the same in someone who s not been
have problems like brain degeneration. i think it s a good movie and depicts how the problem transpired and hopefully makes this a solution. merrill, you are retired from the nfl after a traumatic concussion. tell us what happened. what happened to me is i was improperly cared after a concussion on a monday night game. i resumed play without being evaluated. i was cleared over the phone to get back on the field. that is the biggest problem in 1994 when my career ended is that we weren t caring for the injury. we weren t addressing the injury. in 1994 the only team with cognitive testing was the pittsburgh steelers. what this movie is going to give us an opportunity to do is empower parents and empower people with the correct information and eliminate the hearsay and tactics that are going around.