More than 430 babies have tested positive for coronavirus in the four largest counties in North Texa

[tblue37]

Link to tweet

[napi21]

1. Anybody know if those babies were born to mothers that had the virus? That's the only way I can

imagine so many could have contracted it.

[tblue37]

2. From the linked article in the tweet:

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Dr. Moemeka says many of the babies were likely tested after an adult in the home tested positive. Several local hospitals in Dallas and Tarrant counties told NBC they are testing newborns if the mother tests positive for COVID.

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[TheBlackAdder]

3. Trump focuses on mortality, when COVID alters the brain and organs of many younger patients.

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The developing brains and organs of children are susceptible to damage, while their death rates are low.

This means that the younger folks face the strong possibility of suffering a lifetime of some impairment, that can also shorten their lifespan. While damage to older people's tissues can occur too, they generally do not require functioning organs for forty or more years, like children and young adults do. Younger developing brains and nervous systems are subject to greater alteration risks.

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[tblue37]

4. This!! nt

[Heartstrings]

5. Pre-existing conditions for entire lifetimes....

Think Thalidomide and Polio....

[BigmanPigman]

6. If you mention this little fact to tRump, he would say again,

"This Covid, it is going away, eventually". Really? Ya think? It reminds me of a scene from Apocalypse Now when the Robert Duvall character says. "Someday, this war is going to end" about the Vietnam War.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. And they want to send millions of children back to school - with no plan in place...

[duforsure]

8. As long as the infection rates are too high , which they are

Sending children , and teachers, and all of their families being possibly infected is another disaster in the making from trump. Just like his reopening states have been , and putting children's lives at at great risk for political reasons for trump. To add to that they refuse to pay for precautions needed. Many lawsuits for doing this will be coming soon for trump and those Governors doing this , hopefully civil lawsuits too. Criminal negligence when children become infected coming?