We just finished the first week of December, and we still don’t see any less people getting sick. This year the US was hit hard with common colds, respiratory infections, and the infamous CoronaVirus. But children are the real victims here, as now the sickness rates are higher than before the pandemic.
“We are continuing to see a very high number of sick children with various respiratory problems,” said Dr. Stan Spinner, vice president and chief medical officer of Texas Children’s Pediatrics and Texas Children’s Urgent Care in Houston. “It was already pretty high before school started, but it has clearly gotten worse and faster than it typically takes.”
However, it may not just be a bad season that kids are getting sick, one heavy factor that has influenced the sickness rates is the mask usage. As we rolled into our second year of post-corona schooling, many students arrived at school without a mask. Mandates have gone down for masks in school, but some states in America are starting to change that.
Now, if the viruses are not Covid, what are they? Believe it or not, many hospitals say that most kids come with a runny nose or strep throat! During the winter, children are most likely to get strep, as the temperatures start to drop. Flu and RSV rates have increased by 11% percent since last year, causing hospitals to overflow. The rollercoaster of sickness has gotten to an extreme, and all parents want now is to just have a flu-free holiday.
Hospitals in Kansas and Missouri are now reaching capacity because of the everlasting influenza. New York officials have now urged citizens to wear masks indoors. The USA has succumbed to sickness this year. Doctors have also asked everyone to practice indoor safety precautions in order to prevent many of the colds that are catching people. One more problem repeatedly occurring is when children come to school WITH THE FLU. School nurses encourage everyone to stay home even when they are slightly sick, in order to protect the rest of the students.
“My mom is also here, she just got over the flu. My sister-in-law just got over the flu. My brother has three kids and they had flu, RSV and COVID,” said a local mother. Health officials state that the only way to prevent diseases and the influenza is to go back to covid precautions. And if this means we have to go back to online schooling, we certainly will.
The health of our country is not worth sacrificing millions of lives.
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