Youth ICU Beds Nearly Full as COVID-19 Hospitalizations Drop
What is causing the rise in RSV cases in Maine children?
In the last few weeks hospitalizations have dropped from 234 in mid October and now standing at 126 across the state.
This ME CDC table also tracks all available critical care beds for adults and youth. As of today, 11/18 there are only 3 of 68 Youth Critical Care Beds available in Maine Hospitals.
It’s safe to say that these are not related to COVID-19. Unless the disease has rapidly changed, it is not a significant risk to children.
Bangor Daily News reported that Maine has followed the trends of other states with a significant rise in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases among children. RSV is especially dangerous for young babies, but appears as a common cold for most children, teens and adults. At the time of the article, both ICU beds at Maine Med and Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor were at capacity, and most were RSV.
Dr. Dora Mills states that, “We now have a whole cohort of under-3-year-olds who didn’t get RSV as a regular virus they’d contract in the winter, so suddenly we have a lot more RSV circulating, a lot more kids contracting it at the same time, and more kids having it more severely.”
Why are kids getting sick at such a high rate?
The timing and increase of RSV cases among young children noted by all as abnormal and of great concern. So why is it happening now and at such a high rate?
Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) has noted a rise in RSV cases across the country. They have noted that, “in Pfizer’s pediatric Covid-19 vaccine trial, RSV was listed as one of the serious adverse events among children receiving this vaccine.”
Here’s an excerpt from the FDA’s vaccine committee, VRBPAC, noting the concern for this adverse reaction and the necessity of surveillance once the COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for children as young as 6 months.
So there is a known correlation between COVID-19 Vaccine for children 6 months to 4 years and Maine’s youth ICU beds are nearly full due to RSV. The obvious question is: how many of those children currently hospitalized have been vaccinated for COVID-19?
This should be the question that every reporter is asking Dr. Shah and Dr. Dora Mills.
And yet the great Dr. Shah has been almost entirely silent on the matter. If he’s been asked, he hasn’t stated been quoted - at least not that I can find. However, he has been active on Twitter, pushing COVID-19 vaccine clinics for all ages and attempting to be a comedian.
The answer to that question could be incredibly eye opening and tragic. RSV impacts young children most severely. Of all children in Maine under 4, only 7.45% are considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If there is a high percentage of children among RSV hospitalizations that have received the COVID-19 vaccine, it would most certainly demonstrate evidence for a correlation that would demand immediate investigation.
That all important question and the necessary action would require the ME CDC Director, Hospital officials and our local media to act with a high level of integrity - a character trait that they have each failed to demonstrate over the pandemic.
It’s necessary that we get information like this out there. We don’t have to be experts to hold our leaders accountable and change the conversation.
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