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appalachiablue

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Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:08 AM Aug 2020

Medical Experts Speak Out As Trump Repeats False Claim That Kids Are 'Virtually Immune' To Covid19

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- 'Medical Experts Speak Out as Trump Doubles Down on False Claim That Children Are 'Virtually Immune' to Covid-19.' "I am a pediatric cardiologist. They can get sick. Some do get sick. Very sick. Some of them end up intubated." By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, Aug. 6, 2020.

Medical professionals were compelled to speak out Wednesday after President Donald Trump defended and doubled down on his claim that children are "virtually immune" to Covid-19, a dangerous falsehood the president has been spreading as part of his effort to pressure schools to reopen in the fall. "I'm talking about from getting very sick," Trump said at a Covid-19 briefing Wednesday when asked to address comments he made about the supposed "immunity" of children during a "Fox & Friends" interview earlier in the day:

~ "If you look at children, I mean they're able to throw it off very easily. And it's an amazing thing... They may get it, but they get it and it doesn't have much of an impact on them." ~



- A kid holds a sign from a protester's car as it drives in the Occupy City Hall Protest and Car Caravan hosted by Chicago Teachers Union in Chicago, Illinois on August 3, 2020. (AFP via Getty Images).


Shortly after Trump's briefing, Twitter and Facebook both removed videos posted by the president's campaign account and personal page claiming that children are "almost immune from this disease." Both platforms said the videos violated their rules against disseminating misinformation about Covid-19. - On Twitter, medical experts condemned Trump's comments as both factually inaccurate and highly irresponsible.
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Tom Folan, MD @tomfolanmd
86 children have died in the US from COVID19 as of 7/30 (since states started reporting)
Over 338,000 children in the US have tested positive.
What will be the chronic sequelae of this infection upon the children who survive?
#COVID19
Aaron Rupar @atrupar Replying to @atrupar
Trump dismisses the reality that children can get seriously sick and die from Covid
(VIDEO)
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I am a pediatric cardiologist," wrote Dr. Keila Lopez, assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. "They can get sick. Some do get sick. Very sick. Some of them end up intubated...Dr. Leana Wen, visiting professor at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, applauded Facebook's decision to remove Trump's post downplaying the threat Covid-19 poses to children. "Children do become infected," tweeted Wen. "Some become very ill. Tragically, some have died. Kids are also vectors for transmission to parents and others around them."

Full Article,
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/06/medical-experts-speak-out-trump-doubles-down-false-claim-children-are-virtually

*'Just In Time For School, 2 New Studies Conclude Small Kids Carry & Transmit COVID-19 Just Fine' 8/1/20
https://democraticunderground.com/1016264477

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Medical Experts Speak Out As Trump Repeats False Claim That Kids Are 'Virtually Immune' To Covid19 (Original Post) appalachiablue Aug 2020 OP
Shows all Americans trump and the GOP are child abusers duforsure Aug 2020 #1
A 7 year old just died of the virus in GA... Sancho Aug 2020 #2
Saw that, thanks for adding it. appalachiablue Aug 2020 #3

duforsure

(11,882 posts)
1. Shows all Americans trump and the GOP are child abusers
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:26 AM
Aug 2020

Trying to force children back to school while a deadly pandemic is ravaging the county. They don't care . Who's going to pay their medical bill when they start tuning up very , very sick. It won't be trump or the GOP.

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