Pima County health officials warned this week that COVID cases are rising among children 11 and under—a population that remains ineligible for vaccines.
The increase comes about a month after most schools reopened for the fall semester, leading to an increase in cases by 16.5% over the last week.
Kids between 12 and 19 had COVID case growth of 11.7%, said Pima County Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francisco Garcia. The FDA authorized the Pfizer COVID vaccine to be offered to children 12 and older on May 10, expanding possible vaccination coverage in Pima County.
Garcia reported that 73.1% of vaccine-eligible populations (12 and older) have at least one dose of vaccine.
Garcia said the greatest rise in reported COVID cases came from young and middle aged adults.
“We see the greatest growth in this middle age group 20 to 44, there were 858 additional cases, representing 41% of the total cases from one week to the next,” Garcia said.
Garcia’s assessment was echoed by Banner Health Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Marjorie Bessel, who said that a majority of COVID patients at Banner Health are in the 20 to 65 age group—and 90% are unvaccinated.
Bessel asked the public to consider getting the vaccine even if they had COVID once before.
“Studies have shown that reinfection rates are 2.34 times more likely in those who remain unvaccinated, which is why vaccination is still recommended by the CDC and medical community even if you’ve had COVID,” Bessel said.
Getting the vaccine is especially important as the Delta variant takes America by storm. Bessel reported that the Delta variant accounts for 99.1% of all coronavirus circulating in the United States.
Ahead of Labor Day weekend, Garcia advised the public to wear a mask indoors and while traveling. He also advised that unvaccinated residents should not travel.
“This pandemic has become one of the unvaccinated, and I sincerely hope that Banner and others in the medical community will be able to persuade those who have not yet been vaccinated,” Bessel said.
This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2021.
Seth Rogan beat covid in three days with horse medicine. Could this be all about money and control?
Gee plaguebynight, maybe you should ask members of the anti-vax/mask association, Phil Valentine, Scott Abley, Dick Farrel, Marc Bernier, Caleb Wallace, Stephen Harmon,
Lawrence Barber, Daniel Duke Trujillo. These are leading voices in the fight against the oppression of masks and vaccines and will tell you all you need to know.
Flu By Night. It was Joe Rogan, not Seth Rogan. With a net worth of around $100 million, I’m sure Joe was able to get a doctor’s prescription for the pharmaceutical version of Ivermectin. Nearly 4 billion doses have been taken by humans with little to no side effects over its 40+ year history, and there is strong evidence to support its use as an anti-inflammatory and Cytokine storm blocker.
Of course, it’s about money and control. The patent expired many years ago, so there is no money to be made by Big Pharma. The media make a huge percentage of their profits from pharmaceutical ads, so availability of a safe, effective, and inexpensive treatment threatens their livelihood, hence the recent narrative that people are using a horse dewormer to treat covid.
Cra-cra lady doesn’t mention that Rogan took monoclonal antibodies which has shown to be highly effective in treating Covid if taken during early on-set of the virus (which he did). Russian troll Cra-cra suggests that because Ivermectin has shown to be effective in human treatment of lice and some skin conditions…well golly (spoken like Gomer Pyle) it must be effective against covid too! And this just hastabe a plot by the evil pharma-cos. OK Comrade Cra-cra, time to get back to playing Tetris and sipping your Smirnoff.
Cute, and almost funny, response Wise-Guy!
Sure, Joe Rogan threw everything but the kitchen sink at it as he can afford to do. He was also a very healthy guy to begin with…not that otherwise healthy people haven’t come down with serious covid symptoms…many have.
Riddle me this…why is it that in the African APOC countries (Nigeria, Ethiopia, DRC, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Angola, Mozambique, Ghana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Malawi, Senegal, Chad, and others), with a total population of over 800,000,000, where IVM is routinely used to prevent and treat river blindness, the death rate from covid is only 33 per million of population? Compare that to 1,989 cases per million population in the U.S. with all of our expensive treatments available. It’s unlikely that monoclonal antibodies which cost $1,250 per dose are being used widely to treat Covid in Africa.
These are verifiable facts! I’m sorry if facts scare you.
Red Cross just announced that vaccinated can not donate plasma as the vaccine actually kills the antibodies.
Poor, poor Cra-cra… Self delusion is not attractive.
The CDC states there is no credible evidence that it (Ivermectin) works against viruses, including the coronavirus. Those are the facts. The rest of your post is worthless bilge.
So how many rubles does the Politburo pay you per post?
Dubious V is spouting some swill that has been making the rounds of the sadly misinformed for a number of months now (not just today…try to keep up with us Dubious). And it is, of course, false.
Reuters Fact Check
The American Red Cross is accepting plasma from people vaccinated against COVID-19…contrary to claims on social media…”
The Bullshitviks are out in force today!
Even the dumb guys no longer believe the Russia lies. Give it a rest. The CDC has been caught lying before. Much like our feckless President. Your excuses are pitiful.
But don’t worry we will come back for you.