Corona-zona

Florida has chosen not to preorder pediatric doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Governor Ron "Florida Man" DeSantis says doctors, clinics, and hospitals can just fend for themselves without getting the state involved. That's interesting, because every other state besides Florida has decided that they should not fend for themselves and have preordered the vaccines. Every other state.  "To do an emergency use for a 6-month-old or a 1-year-old simply to placate anxiety, that's not the standard when you're doing this," said DeSantis , the pediatric medicine expert. He's right. It's to placate anxiety resulting from the needless death of a child. Over 900 of them have done so in the pandemic to date. DeSantis's sycophant state Surgeon General Joseph Lapado agreed: "From what I've seen, there is just insufficient data to inform benefits and risks in children." It's a pretty safe bet that what he's seen comes from ant...

" Double ouch, double vaccination "  by  jacco de boer  is marked with  CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 .   The CSC has added new data on the risk of hospitalizations for unvaccinated kids 5-11 years old relative to those who are vaccinated. The data are from January, when the Omicron wave was still active. Here is their chart: If you divide the unvaccinated rate by the vaccinated rate and average over the five weeks represented, the ratio is 5.23 to 1.  In other words, unvaccinated kids in this age range were, during the period covered, on average more than five times as likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19. Granted, the risk is small either way. The highest rate, on January 22, was only 3.9 per 100K. But when it's your kid I'm pretty sure you'd prefer the risk 1/3 as high for the vaccinated group.