Unless you live in Florida, where the governor decided not to place an order for pediatric COVID-19 vaccines, children under age 5 will begin getting vaccinated today. Florida is the only state that hasn’t preordered COVID-19 vaccines for young children in anticipation of their final approval by the federal government.
Ron DeSantis attends a media event, Thursday, June 16, 2022, in Miami. Pediatric vaccines available in 49 states todayįlorida Gov. But research also suggests music could help children rebuild what was lost. In New York City public schools, elementary music instruction, which had been stable for five years, decreased by 11 percent between the 2019-20 school year and 2020-21, according to the New York City Department of Education’s Arts in Schools Report.įor students whose only access to music education comes via their public schools, pandemic school closures were especially disruptive. The pandemic interrupted music instruction for many elementary schoolers at a critical moment - in the years when their brains are just starting to make “ sound to meaning” connections. School bands are still trying to recover from two years of distance learning setbacks. How COVID-19 destroyed school music programs But I think these kind of data helps support that that’s probably not the cause,” explained veteran epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, who was not involved in the CDC work. “It doesn’t mean that Covid still can’t have some collateral role with all of this. With rates unchanged since before the Covid-19 pandemic, a theory espoused by scientists from Israel - that this is some sort of post-Covid condition - becomes harder to argue.
As of June 6, the World Health Organization had been notified of over 800 probable and suspected cases.īut the CDC findings may help to rule some things out. Elsewhere, about three dozen countries have detected cases since the United Kingdom raised the alarm in early April. The CDC findings don’t identify what is causing the cases of pediatric hepatitis of unknown origin, 290 of which are under investigation in this country. Likewise, the rate of detections of infections caused by adenovirus 41 - a stomach bug virus that has been implicated as a potential trigger of these hepatitis cases - has not changed over time, the CDC scientists reported. Nor has there been a rise in the number of pediatric liver transplants, which a portion of these children have needed. Their research suggests there has not been an increase in cases of pediatric hepatitis of unknown origin, at least in the United States. It may have been that there was not enough recordkeeping to know what the normal hepatitis case count was pre-pandemic and what we were thinking was a new outbreak was just a normal case count. Now, it appears, there might not have been an increase at all. There was some speculation that it would lead to a need for increased liver transplants.įor months, nobody could figure out what was behind these seeming outbreaks. Hundreds of cases were under investigation worldwide. In November 2021, doctors in Alabama and Scotland reported seeing more hepatitis cases in a period of weeks than they normally would see in a year. This new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report is a bit of a head-scratcher. New CDC data says maybe there was no increase in pediatric hepatitis cases Industry observers say RVs are still popular despite gasoline prices because the alternatives - including airfare and hotel rooms - are more expensive, too. Thor Industries says it still has a backlog of RV orders worth $13.88 billion. Thor Industries, which owns popular RV brands Airstream and Jayco, said this month that its sales were up 34.6% in the latest three months, compared with the same period last year. RVs are especially popular in the South and West. The association expects 2022 will be its second-best year of production ever. RV production in North America hit an all-time high in 2021, with more than 600,000 vehicles produced, according to RV Industry Association spokeswoman Monika Geraci. Americans continue to turn to RVs even as they’ve grown increasingly comfortable flying and staying in hotels. RV popularity boomed during the pandemic as travelers looked for safe ways to travel while maintaining social distance. But it turns out that the opposite is true, despite the fact that RVs get miserable gas mileage and that gas is selling for around $5 a gallon nationwide. I have been expecting word any day that RV sales were tanking and that a lot of used RVs were being turned in for sale. Sign up here to have it delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Covering COVID-19 is a daily Poynter briefing of story ideas about the coronavirus and other timely topics for journalists, written by senior faculty Al Tompkins.
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