Coronavirus in Massachusetts (Boston: percentages, seasons, breakdown)

[jayrandom]

Originally Posted by redplum33

Dude, people are just finding out about it. And who is terrified?

No idea what's going on with you guys...trying to bury this info.

Watch the numbers increase.

Bury the info? How many links have we provided to major new sources and CDC? We are just pointing out that it appears to be *rare* and rash decisions shouldn't be made on the detection of a *rare* syndrome.

Certainly it's important for the people that might be affected by this (which includes me) to be aware of it.

[charolastra00]

The situation with kids is horrible and certainly frightening for parents. It's important to note, however, that there IS treatment for this. Now that more parents are finding out about it, their kids can get appropriate care.

[OutdoorLover]

On this recently identified condition in children that's been linked to Covid-19 and has similarities to Kawasaki Disease - for now, the known prevalence is relatively low. Now of course, cases may multiply, and simply the recognition may increase, now that it's got been called out and some symptoms described and it's being publicized... but from what I've read so far it's a few hundred cases, total have been reported so far. Compare that to this coagulapathy, which has probably caused 10s of thousands of deaths in the US as a complication of Covid-19...

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by redplum33

Dude, people are just finding out about it. And who is terrified?

No idea what's going on with you guys...trying to bury this info.

Watch the numbers increase.

So... what is the typical year over year occurence?

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by jayrandom

Bury the info? How many links have we provided to major new sources and CDC? We are just pointing out that it appears to be *rare* and rash decisions shouldn't be made on the detection of a *rare* syndrome.

Certainly it's important for the people that might be affected by this (which includes me) to be aware of it.

I'm afraid these links have not been opened.

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

So... what is the typical year over year occurence?

Do you not understand that it's from the virus? Nobody could possibly have the info you're asking for.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

I'm afraid these links have not been opened.

Reading primary sources... heck reading, is eschewed by most here. They use television. LOL.

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by redplum33

Do you not understand that it's from the virus? Nobody could possibly have the info you're asking for.

Actually that isnt proven at all. Finding antibodies or even presence of the virus in a child does not mean that subsequent ailments are caused by it.
That's what post hoc means.
As I always say, in absence of meaningful statistics, assume the worst, panic, and spread those meaningless statistics as far as possible.

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

Actually that isnt proven at all. Finding antibodies or even presence of the virus in a child does not mean that subsequent ailments are caused by it.
That's what post hoc means.
As I always say, in absence of meaningful statistics, assume the worst, panic, and spread those meaningless statistics as far as possible.

This isn't Kawasaki. It's something very similar that is from the virus.

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by redplum33

This isn't Kawasaki. It's something very similar that is from the virus.

This means nothing, and furthermore, has absolutely no evidence to support it. The "Kawasaki-like" weaseling is meaningless too. This is how these things are. They don't even know what causes any of this normally in the first place, but somehow you know for a fact it's caused by Covid 19?

https://triblive.com/local/pittsburg...o-coronavirus/

“We have cared for kids with Kawasaki disease, and conditions like Kawasaki disease, for literally decades,” said Dr. Terry Dermody, a virologist and the physician-in-chief and scientific director at UPMC’s Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. “Despite years and years of searching for a cause, we’ve not come up with any certain link to Kawasaki disease, any infectious trigger. We all suspect that there is one, but we haven’t been able to identify it.”

“We’re really still in our infancy of understanding this infection,” said Springer. “And our testing is still unsure, so we don’t have testing capacity that’s really well validated. Are those positives true positives, and are those negatives true negatives? We don’t exactly know the answer yet.”

It’s possible that covid-19 is not a cause for the syndrome, just a “tripwire,” Dermody said. It could easily be caused by any other severe virus the child is exposed to.