How To Protect Children Under 12 From COVID-19, According To Fauci

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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN

(CNN) — Dr. Anthony Fauci says there’s an important measurement adults tin instrumentality to support children who are excessively young to beryllium vaccinated against Covid-19.

“The mode you support children who, due to the fact that of their age, cannot get vaccinated yet is to situation the children — beryllium it friends, family, schoolhouse teachers, unit successful the schoolhouse — situation the children with vaccinated people,” the manager of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases told CNN connected Sunday.

More children person needed exigency country visits and hospitalizations successful states with little vaccination rates, according to a caller survey from the CDC.

In the two-week play successful mid-to-late August, ER visits for kids up to property 17 were 3.4 times higher successful the states with the lowest vaccination rates and hospitalizations were 3.7 times higher than successful states with the highest vaccination rates.

Some states are moving to get up of the latest surge by getting arsenic galore eligible radical vaccinated arsenic possible.

The authorities of Washington, which has an October vaccine mandate for teachers and unit going into effect, is seeing “great news” regarding younker vaccination efforts, according to authorities wellness caput Umair Shah connected Thursday.

At slightest 41% of children betwixt 12- and 15-years-old are vaccinated and conscionable nether fractional of the state’s 16- to 17-year-olds are afloat vaccinated arsenic well.

“Washington schools person the structure, protocol and radical to person palmy in-person education,” Shah said.

If the US wants to support children successful the schoolroom this schoolhouse year, radical person to deterioration masks, Fauci said. But portion immoderate areas person adopted disguise and vaccine mandates, others person curbed specified measures.

In Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said he’s constricted connected what helium tin bash due to the fact that the authorities officials opposed his effort astatine a schoolhouse disguise mandate.

“If I had the quality to bash it close now, we would person a masking bid erstwhile you are successful nationalist and indoors. We cognize that’s a proven mode to dilatory the dispersed of the virus, and yet assistance our healthcare capacity,” Beshear told NBC Sunday.

Tough choices loom astir who gets an ICU bed, Fauci warns

Some hospitals successful the United States are adjacent to afloat capableness arsenic Covid-19 continues to spread, and soon officials could beryllium making choices astir who gets an intensive attraction portion bed, Fauci said.

“We are perilously close,” helium said. “You’re going to beryllium successful a concern wherever you’re going to person to marque immoderate precise pugnacious choices.”

Fauci told CNN’s Jim Acosta the champion mode to forestall wellness attraction workers from having to marque those pugnacious choices is to “pull retired each the stops connected everything we tin bash to forestall caller infections.”

Masking is important, Fauci noted, but “vaccination is the fig one” method of lowering hospitalizations.

Across the US, 79.83% of ICU beds are successful usage — astir a 3rd of which are occupied by Covid-19 patients, according to information from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Eight states had much than 90% of their big ICU beds occupied Sunday: Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada and Kentucky.

A national aesculapian squad arrived successful Kentucky this play to assistance summation aesculapian assistance and the quality to unfastened much infirmary beds successful airy of record-breaking coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, according to a connection from Gov. Beshear’s office.

“Our concern is dire,” Beshear told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. “We are deed very, precise hard, but we are going to proceed to fight. When you’re astatine war, you don’t get to outcry astir what you tin oregon can’t do. You’ve got to bash your precise champion each time due to the fact that this is simply a conflict of beingness versus death.”

Beshear said helium sent the National Guard to the hardest deed hospitals successful the authorities to enactment connected logistics and escaped up clinicians to be to patients.

In Albany, Georgia, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Director of Emergency Services Dr. James Black told CNN’s Amara Walker connected Saturday that his infirmary astir doubled its ICU capableness yet is inactive faced with an overflow of patients.

“The exigency section is afloat and the infirmary is full,” Black said. “Anytime a diligent is discharged, we person patients waiting connected those beds.”

Moderna whitethorn lag down Pfizer successful booster rollout

With the dispersed of the highly transmissible Delta variant disrupting beingness crossed the US, officials and wellness experts are moving toward administering a booster dose of vaccine to Americans.

President Joe Biden had planned to rotation retired booster doses for Pfizer and Moderna astatine the aforesaid time, but Fauci told CNN Sunday that whitethorn not happen.

Fauci said vaccine shaper Pfizer has gotten its accusation to the US Food and Drug Administration, the accusation has been examined and “things look similar they’re acceptable to go.”

But, helium said Moderna mightiness beryllium a small spot down Pfizer, and if it is, alternatively than seeing a simultaneous rotation retired of some products, it would beryllium a sequential rotation retired by astir a week oregon two.

“I don’t deliberation that is simply a large contented there, but we would person liked to person seen it hap each together, simultaneously. But yet the program volition beryllium implemented, arsenic was enactment forth,” Fauci said.

The program is contingent, first, connected the companies submitting the due information to the FDA, and second, getting an support from the FDA and past a proposal from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers, helium said.

With the imaginable timing discrepancy, researchers are looking into whether antithetic types of Covid-19 vaccines tin beryllium mixed and matched.

“We’re lining up Pfizer against Pfizer, Pfizer for Moderna, and vice vera,” Fauci told Weijia Jiang connected CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “Hopefully wrong a tenable play of time, measured successful a mates weeks, we volition person that data.”

Fauci said hopefully it volition enactment retired that radical who got Pfizer volition boost with Pfizer, and radical who got Moderna volition boost with Moderna.

“But we are doing the studies to find if you tin … power 1 with the other,” helium said.

Number of Covid-19 cases 4 times higher than Labor Day 2020

This Labor Day weekend, the 7-day mean of caller coronavirus cases was much than 4 times higher than it was connected Labor Day 2020, according to information from Johns Hopkins University.

Covid-related deaths person besides increased, according to JHU, and the US Department of Health and Human Services reports that Covid-related hospitalizations person gone up, too.

Here’s however the Covid statistic person changed from Labor Day 2020 to Labor Day 2021, according to information from JHU and the DHHS.

Daily cases (7-day average)

• Labor Day 2020 (September 7): 39,355

• Labor Day 2021 (September 5): 163,728

Daily deaths (7-day average)

• Labor Day 2020 (September 7): 804

• Labor Day 2021 (September 5): 1,561

Hospitalizations (Totals connected these dates)

• Labor Day 2020 (September 8): 40,600

• Labor Day 2021 (September 6): 99,270

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