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Think kids can’t get Covid-19?

Guess Again. Nearly 100,000 kids got Covid in 2 weeks, and school isn’t even open yet.

“Almost 100,000 children in the U.S. were sickened with the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July,” NBC News reports, citing a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association that showed a 40% increase in COVID-19 cases in children between July 16 and July 30. Read story here.

The study was based on a survey of 49 states, New York City, Puerto Rico and Guam. Over 5 million cases have been reported in the U.S., of which nearly 340,000 are children.

Another study conducted in Chicago showed children under 5 carry as much virus in their noses as adults, implying young children spread it as readily as anyone else.

Photo: Jayden Hardowar, 8, of Queens, NY, on a ventilator in May 2020. Read story here. He survived.

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  1. Mark Adams #
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    Of course using math if 100,000 kids came down with this disease there were at least 8 million other cases in July.

  2. Roger Rabbit #
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    How do you figure that?