The COVID Digest, 15Oct2021

Pediatric COVID-19 deaths

Readers, as things continue to look better for Georgia (see below), I’m going to mostly take this week off from writing.

The one piece of data I want to point out is that Georgia had two newly reported pediatric deaths this week, in a 13 year old boy from Floyd county and a 17 year old boy from Upson county. If we look at all the pediatric deaths from COVID-19 to date (n = 20), the deaths highlighted in yellow below are ones that were reported during the delta wave (n = 9). That’s a pretty big jump in a relatively short period of time. It’s mind blowing to think that 45% of the pediatric deaths to date for a pandemic that’s been happening for 19 months far happened in the last 3 months alone. Delta was intense.

Have a great week!

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Unless otherwise noted, the source data for all of these graphs is from the Georgia Department of Public Health daily status report and the Georgia Geospatial Information Office COVID-19 Data Hub. Many thanks to the public health data heroes at these organizations for providing these data to the public on a near-daily basis. Not all states offer this level of transparency.

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My Ph.D. is in Medical Microbiology and Immunology and I am Chair of the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Saint Mary. I've worked at places like Creighton University, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and Mercer University School of Medicine. All thoughts are my professional opinion, do not represent the views or opinions of my employer and should not be considered medical advice.