KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 Children under the age of 18 who are infected with Covid-19 can suffer from multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a critical condition that can occur when there is inflammation of internal organs, especially the heart, lungs and brain. Health.
what s the best strategy to get it one bill through the senate and the other through the house. i rely on our congressmen and senators to do that negotiation. we re prepared to support sort of a wide swath of strategy. at the end of the day, we need both of the bills to pass if we re going to deal with the issues in front of us. i want you to listen to the new york city mayor. you mentioned the fema folks there. they get people the emergency federal aid, cut them a check on the spot if they can. listen to the mayor s view of what has to be done in the city. this disaster, declaration is exactly what we need, but now comes the part of getting everyone the money they deserve. the city is going to send teams out to all affected areas. door to door. to make sure people sign up to cut through the red tape. people need money and they need it quick. same approach in the suburbs? go door to door? do you set up community centers and is there a covid complication that you don t want peop
they re just beginning to share and there are other countries also reviewing those data. so planning ahead to have those booster shots in place makes some sense. i want to ask you about this concerning rise in covid cases among kids, doctor. 121,000 new pediatric cases were reported just last week. in the last few days we ve heard of a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old dying from covid complication. this is not the same covid we encountered back in 2020. you know, someone who is following the pediatric issues very closely, i think we have to be careful not to overstate as well what we re watching here. certainly kids are being represented more among those who are being infected. large numbers of unvaccinated children mixing in casual gatherings with unvaccinated and vaccinated adults, in areas with low vaccination rates, we re seeing a lot more kids getting infected. but when you actually look at the hospitalizations, they ve been very concentrated in the
but, you know, i think the controversy is really whether people suspect we re seeing more severe disease among those who has been vaccinated and thus far there hasn t been pervasive evidence that there s been breakthrough infections of a magnitude that we should be concerned. that said, the cdc has data they re just beginning to share and there are other countries also reviewing those data. so planning ahead to have those booster shots in place makes some sense. i want to ask you about this concerning rise in covid cases among kids, doctor. 121,000 new pediatric cases were reported just last week. in the last few days we ve heard of a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old dying from covid complication. this is not the same covid we encountered back in 2020. you know, someone who is following the pediatric issues very closely, i think we have to be careful not to overstate as well what we re watching here. certainly kids are being represented more among those who are being infected. large n
Covid-19s second wave in Maharashtra appears to be more brutal to the young, affecting more people below 30 years of age than the first wave did in 2020.