By Marc Fisher, Ariana Eunjung Cha, Annie Gowen, Arelis R. Hernandez and Lori Rozsa
Lastassija White and Quincy Drone lost their 5-year-old daughter to covid-19 in October. “I could tell she was really scared,” her father said of seeing Tagan in the emergency room after her death, her eyes still wide-open.
Priscilla Morse blames herself. (click here) “I had it last,” she said. “I was Gigi’s primary caregiver.”
Priscilla’s husband, David, blames himself. He brought the virus that causes covid-19 into the house after picking it up at the pool supply shop he manages.
Their 11-year-old son thinks it’s his fault: He’s the one who noticed his 6-year-old sister lying still, eyes open, blank stare. He called 911, but wonders if he couldn’t have noticed earlier....
A large number of children dead from SARS-CoV-2 are minority children. The pressures to return children to school should not be met with the danger of contracting the virus. Parents find school attendance a solace to their lives as they work their jobs, however, exposure to disease is not the solace they are seeking. Children with ANY degree of danger to the virus should not be in classes.
We know for a fact there is a Post-COVID-19 syndrome. It is due to tissue damage mostly of which is not repairable. Many of the stories are the loss of taste and smell have not returned months after fighting off the virus. That is because of the mechanism SARS-CoV-2 renders to body cells. The cells are destroyed as the virus exists and ruptures the cell membrane/wall after replication with the cell's DNA.
The first place the virus enters the body most frequently is through the nose. The first place it finds a home is the cells of the nose. The nose not only carries air to the lungs, it also contains the sensory cells for smell and taste. Those cells are damaged when the sense of taste and smell is gone or diminished. Those cells will not regenerate. There may be a genetic answer in the future, but, right now there is no such medical intervention and those senses are damaged forever.
The article below not only relates to the reality of this syndrome but, also the presence of it's attack on children. Children are growing and their body cells are being damaged as they are growing. Just imagine the lousy virus settling in the growth plates of the bones. There is also the issue that the nervous system tends to be the very favorite cells to this virus including that special nervous system of the heart. Children are being hit hard by this virus and will need support for the rest of their lives. There is something like 3 million children infected with SARS-CoV-2. It would be a hideous reality to have children return to school only to be infected with a virus that very well may disable them for the rest of their lives.
WE ARE LOSING OUR BRAIN TRUST TO SARS-CoV-2.
THIS IS NOT THE FLU!
February 16, 2021
By Pam Belluck
Fifteen-year-old Braden Wilson (click here) was frightened of Covid-19. He was careful to wear masks and only left his house, in Simi Valley, Calif., for things like orthodontist checkups and visits with his grandparents nearby.
But somehow, the virus found Braden. It wreaked ruthless damage in the form of an inflammatory syndrome that, for unknown reasons, strikes some young people, usually several weeks after infection by the coronavirus.
Doctors at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles put the teenager on a ventilator and a heart-lung bypass machine. But they could not stop his major organs from failing. On Jan. 5, “they officially said he was brain dead,” his mother, Amanda Wilson, recounted, sobbing. “My boy was gone.”
Doctors across the country have been seeing a striking increase in the number of young people with the condition Braden had, which is called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children or MIS-C. Even more worrisome, they say, is that more patients are now very sick than during the first wave of cases, which alarmed doctors and parents around the world last spring....
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