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COVID-19

A WVU pediatrician says 2-6 WV kids on average per day require hospitalization for COVID. State officials withhold exact numbers.

by Erin Beck, Kids’ Health Correspondent Some West Virginia children, unable to get enough oxygen on their own, have required intensive care and ventilators after contracting COVID-19, according to the state COVID czar and pediatricians. The number of children who’ve fallen severely ill and been admitted to the hospital increased Read more…

By Think Kids, 3 yearsOctober 21, 2021 ago

COVID-19 School Health

I Thank the County for Making Masks Mandatory

Here is a message I’ve received from my principal, twice, in the last two days: “An individual in your child’s classroom has been identified positive for the COVID virus. Following the latest CDC guidelines, you would have been notified if your child needed to quarantine. At this time, your child Read more…

By Think Kids, 3 yearsOctober 14, 2021 ago

COVID-19 School Health

Kids, COVID, and Culture Wars

Do you remember the nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosie?” I do. I sang, spun, and fell down many times with my friends when I was a kid. Years later in college, I read that the song could have originated during the Great Plague of London. Scholars hypothesize that those rings that we’d sing Read more…

By Think Kids, 3 yearsSeptember 26, 2021 ago