Kids make up solely 22% of the U.S. inhabitants, however account for 27% of coronavirus instances nationwide, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported Monday.
The group stated the variety of youngsters receiving their first COVID-19 vaccine this week was the bottom recorded quantity since vaccines turned accessible, and has been trending downwards for nearly two months.
Youngsters make up lower than one % of COVID-19 deaths, the Academy stated, however there isn’t a lot knowledge in regards to the long-term results of the coronavirus on youngsters. 5.9 million youngsters have examined optimistic for COVID-19 because the starting of the pandemic, and fewer than half of eligible youngsters have been absolutely inoculated.
Kids ages 5 to 11 — making up 14.5% of the U.S. inhabitants — will not be but authorized to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine, however current motion by the Meals and Drug Administration suggests which will change quickly. The FDA scheduled a gathering of the unbiased committee, which advises the administration on vaccine and drug approvals, for the top of October.
Pfizer-BioNTech says knowledge exhibits their vaccine is secure and efficient in youngsters ages 5 to 11, and beneficial one-third the dose used for these aged 12 and over. The corporate submitted medical trial knowledge to the FDA final Wednesday.
If each the FDA and a second federal advisory committee authorize vaccines for younger youngsters, inoculations may start earlier than Halloween.
Additionally within the information:
►The CDC says unvaccinated Americans should delay planned trips throughout the nation till they’ve had their COVID-19 photographs.
►Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the Nationwide Institutes of Well being for 12 years, stated Tuesday he’s stepping down, capping a profession by which he directed essential analysis into the human genome and the combat in opposition to critical illnesses like most cancers, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and COVID-19.
►Customs and Border Safety officers discovered 41 counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards Monday at a Chicago mail facility. The playing cards had been present in shipments from China that had been heading to cities in Texas.
►New York Metropolis’s vaccination mandate for college employees survived a courtroom problem Tuesday whereas hospitals throughout the state reported few disruptions to their providers due to the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for well being care employees.
📈Right now’s numbers: The U.S. has recorded greater than 43 million confirmed COVID-19 instances and greater than 705,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. World totals: Greater than 235 million instances and 4.8 million deaths. Greater than 215 million Individuals — 65% of the inhabitants — are absolutely vaccinated, according to the CDC.
📘What we’re studying: For over a yr, the pandemic has compelled mother and father to do full-time childcare and home chores alongside their common jobs. Whereas most of this additional workload has fallen on ladies, an unprecedented variety of males are spending extra time at residence than ever earlier than, typically taking over full-time childcare as a result of they misplaced their jobs or earned lower than their companions. Read more here.
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Arizona program to discourage COVID mandates violates guidelines, feds say
Gov. Doug Ducey’s packages that reward college districts for not imposing COVID-19 associated mandates violate federal rules, and U.S. Treasury officers warned Tuesday that they might claw again federal stimulus {dollars} until the state makes modifications.
Earlier than Arizona acquired an preliminary $2 billion fee from the American Rescue Plan, the state agreed to comply with spending phrases that included combatting “fiscal results stemming from the COVID-19 public well being emergency, together with by supporting efforts to cease the unfold of the virus,” the Treasury Division’s second-in-command wrote in a letter to Ducey on Tuesday.
However two packages introduced by Ducey in August “undermine evidence-based efforts” to cease the coronavirus and are “not a permissible use” of the cash, the letter reads. Not less than $173 million was put aside for these packages.
Federal Treasury officers gave Ducey 30 days to “remediate the problems” with these packages. The penalty for not doing so may embrace Arizona having to repay federal {dollars} it acquired, in response to the Treasury letter signed by Deputy Secretary Adewale “Wally” O. Adeyemo.
– Stacey Barchenger, Arizona Republic
NBA star says he was ‘compelled’ to vaccinate or not play
Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins, who had develop into a face of vaccine resistance within the sports activities world, defined why he acquired the COVID-19 vaccine, saying he felt “compelled” to obtain the shot.
Wiggins had been hesitant to take the shot, and risked forfeiture of half his $31.5 million wage for the 2021-22 season if he did not.
Town of San Francisco, the place the Warriors play their residence video games, mandates that anybody over 12 years previous have to be vaccinated to attend indoor occasions. On the Chase Middle, Golden State gamers will want proof of vaccination to enter the constructing.
“The one choices had been to get vaccinated or not play within the NBA,” Wiggins stated Monday. “It was a troublesome resolution. Hopefully, it really works out in the long term and in 10 years I am nonetheless wholesome.”
Wiggins stated he acquired the Johnson & Johnson shot and added he is the one one in his household who’s vaccinated.
– Scooby Axson
New Jersey’s largest well being system says 99% a minimum of partially vaccinated
New Jersey’s largest well being care system, Hackensack Meridian Well being, stated Tuesday that greater than 99% of its 36,000 staff now both are absolutely vaccinated or have acquired their first of two photographs for COVID-19.
In the most important instance to this point of the effectiveness of employer vaccine necessities in New Jersey, that represents a 28% improve because the system knowledgeable staff of the requirement in July. An extra 10,080 individuals have develop into a minimum of partially vaccinated.
Hackensack Meridian gives care at 17 hospitals, 12 nursing houses, three assisted dwelling amenities and a whole lot of different websites from Bergen to Atlantic counties. Everybody from janitors to coronary heart surgeons, per diem staff to full-time employees, was required to adjust to the vaccine requirement.
One shot was required by Oct.1, and Nov. 15 is the deadline for full vaccination.
— Lindy Washburn, The Bergen Report
