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Omicron is a deadly virus. Former UFC star 41 y.o. Chris "The Crippler" Leben from San Diego CA is recovering from COVID after being on life support. He declined to talk about his vaccination status. This was his second battle with COVID #TheySurvivedCovid 10news.com/news/local-new…
“I was ready to tap out, and the reason I didn’t tap is because of my child … If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have had the fight to get through those days,” said Leben. 
There is a disinformation campaign that young people are not affected by COVID-19 and that #Omicron is mild. These are both incorrect. Vaccination against COVID-19 protects against severe disease.
Brothers 5 y.o. Andrew and 2 y.o. Conner Urey from Townville Pennsylvania were orphaned due to COVID-19. #KidsLivingWithCovid meadvilletribune.com/news/fundraise…
44 y.o. Tom Urey from Townville Pennsylvania died from COVID in December 2021. His wife, Mandy, 32, died 4 weeks later. #SoulsLostToCovid
“There are days I’d like to sit and cry and drown,” said grandma, “but I have two little boys to raise.... People should get vaccinated.... it could prevent you from getting it so bad that you wind up on a ventilator and possibly losing your life.”
7 y.o. Isaiah Celin from South Yarmouth Massachusetts was hospitalized on life support due to multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID. He had to relearn how to walk and eat. Omicron is a severe deadly virus #KidsLivingWithCovid boston25news.com/news/massachus…
Celin says her son was sent home from school on January 11, 2022, with what was believed to be a stomach bug and a fever. After becoming increasingly sicker and his fever worsened Isaiah was rushed to Boston Children’s.
“Out of the blue he started with a little stomach ache and it turned into one of the most traumatic experiences of our lives,” she said.
9 y.o. Maleigha Turner from Lexington North Carolina was severely ill from multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID. “I feel that if she had not been vaccinated, my baby probably would have ended up on that ventilator that she was close to getting on” #KidsLivingWithCovid
“All she could do was scream ‘help me, help me, help me,’ which broke my heart. Your baby going through that, and there’s nothing you can do,” myfox8.com/news/coronavir…
Vaccines are 91% effective against multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID
🧵Omicron is not mild in children. Upper airway viral infection may result in swelling and difficultly breathing. 2 y.o. Bryce "was turning blue around the lips... You can tell he was tired," said mom, an ICU nurse. #KidsLivingWithCovid minnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/01/10/omi…
Children under the age of 5 remain vulnerable to COVID, because vaccines are not available. Croup is an upper airway viral infection in children that obstructs breathing causing stridor and a barking cough as shown here. #KidsLivingWithCovid
Because children have SMALL airways, they are most susceptible to having more symptoms with croup due to COVID. Loud or constant STRIDOR means SEVERE croup. So does STRIDOR AT REST (when not crying or coughing).
6 y.o. Zyaire Bell from Las Vegas #Nevada underwent more than a half-dozen surgeries as doctors worked to save his life from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children due to COVID. The medical bill is ONE MILLION dollars. #KidsLivingWithCovid
Vaccines are 91% effective against MISC
6 year old fights Covid due to MIS-C
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7 y.o. Finn from Jarrell #Texas was rushed to the emergency room severely ill from multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID. "This was my healthy child, and all of a sudden he's crashing and it just was unreal" #KidsLivingWithCovid kvue.com/article/news/h…
Finn was diagnosed with MIS-C at age 7, a month after recovering from COVID-19.
"After your body has completely cleared the virus, your immune system has kind of gone hyper-inflamed and is overworking and now is gone too high and is fighting something that's no longer there in the body," Dr. Keren Hasbani, a pediatric cardiologist at Dell Children's, said.
4 y.o. DJ Brunson developed high fevers, lethargy and became severely ill from multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID. "It was one of the most gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching experiences that I've ever had." said mom #KidsLivingWithCovid abc.net.au/news/2022-01-2…
“You’re talking about a four-year-old kid who wants to run around and play. That’s all he wanted to do, was just get up and get out of bed.”
DJ is fully recovered from his MIS-C and back to the spunky little boy his parents are used to.
🏴 11 y.o. Shenan Gnanaraj from Chesterfield #England struggled to breathe & began hallucinating due to multisystem inflammatory syndrome. He had a 50% chance of living. A heart valve & artery supplying blood to his heart is damaged. #KidsLivingWithCovid derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/people/ch…
Ganga said: “The people at A&E couldn’t understand why he had been sent home twice. They realised he was really poorly, but they thought he had lymphangitis because of the lump on his neck.
"Another paediatrician assessed Shenan and realised that Ganga was right, but by this stage, Shenan’s condition had deteriorated drastically, and doctors were unsure whether he would survive."
Brandon Vaughn from Pine Knot, Kentucky is critically ill from COVID and on ECMO because his lungs are permanently damaged from the virus. Without a double-lung transplant he won't survive. He is 17. #KidsLivingWithCovid
ECMO stands for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The ECMO machine pumps and oxygenates a patient's blood outside the body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest. It's often a bridge to lung transplant.
As patients awaiting lung transplantation become sicker, ECMO enables them to remain active and participating in physical therapy to prepare for the rigors of surgery
16 y.o. Camden Tucker from Springdale Arkansas contracted COVID before vaccines were available in her age group. Her father is a physician. She was given a 1% chance of survival after going into cardiac arrest. #KidsLivingWithCovid thv11.com/article/news/h…
"There was a 99% chance she was not going to survive, which as a parent, that's hard to listen to," he said.
Donald said it all started on Sept. 19 when Camden went into cardiac arrest, quit breathing, and had multiple seizures during a family fishing trip.
Donald said it all started on Sept. 19 when Camden went into cardiac arrest, quit breathing, and had multiple seizures during a family fishing trip.
"We pulled her out of the recliner and onto the floor, started doing CPR on her. I sent my wife, we didn't have any cell service, so I sent my wife to find a landline and call 911,"
This child from Missouri is severely ill from COVID. The red ECMO tubes from his neck allow blood to bypass his heart & damaged lungs. His windpipe was cut to place him on breathing machine longterm. He exercises to gain strength #KidsLivingWithCovid
This is pediatric intensive care. There are 10,000s of children that have survived COVID because of our advancements in medicine and the availability of ECMO, rehab services, etc. Each child hospitalized in a pediatric ICU bed requires intensive care.
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7 week old Ostara Clure from Nampa Idaho is too young to get vaccinated. She's now fighting for her life on ECMO because her lungs are so damaged from the Omicron Variant #KidsLivingWithCovid
"Before I didn't believe in the whole COVID. I didn't do the masks. I didn't do anything & now it's affecting my daughter... my other two kids came up positive. It changed our beliefs about how scary it really is.. while worried about our daughter who is fighting for her life"
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In the last month, 420 children in the United States developed multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID and 4 died. Vaccination is 91% effective in preventing #MISC. #KidsLivingWithCovid
Kids with #MISC are sick and require ICU hospitalization, often with blood pressure support medicine, steroids, blood thinners, and sometimes life support. Vaccines are 91% effective against MISC. #KidsLivingWithCovid
20.1 million children in the U.S. are fully vaccinated
💉6.2 million ages 5-11 (22%)
💉13.9 million ages 12- 17 (55%) aap.org/en/pages/2019-…
💉6.2 million ages 5-11 (22%)
💉13.9 million ages 12- 17 (55%) aap.org/en/pages/2019-…
