It made my heart broke : Marshall first-graders, parents grieve loss of classmate to COVID-19
Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota who leads the university’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said that severe cases of COVID-19 in children are still rare. According to state Health Department data, kids younger than 15 make up about 9% of all of Minnesota’s COVID-19 cases.
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Jase Nelson, 6, sits on his mom s lap and looks at a picture of his kindergarten class taken last year at Park Side Elementary School in Marshall, Minn. Michelle Nelson, 33, encouraged her son to share memories of one of his classmates, a 6-year-old girl who died over the weekend from complications of COVID-19. (Courtesy of Michelle Nelson)
She was the third Minnesota child to die of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota who leads the university’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said that severe cases of COVID-19 in children are still rare. According to state Health Department data, kids younger than 15 make up about 9% of all of Minnesota’s COVID-19 cases.
“I don’t want to diminish the fact that we are not seeing widespread serious illness in young kids,” Osterholm said. “We surely have a number of them that are seriously ill. But they probably typify the very worst in this pandemic in that regard.”
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