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[APBT]

 

LINK TO STORY:  https://currently.at...-074940234.html

 

Four-year-old girl dies of Covid after anti-vaxxer mom contracts virus

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Mon, September 13, 2021, 12:49 AM·3 min read

 

Kali Cook died last week due to Covid-19 (GoFundMe/Karra Harwood)

A four-year-old girl has become the youngest Covid-19 victim in Texas’s Galveston County since the onset of the pandemic, after several members of her family were infected.

Kali Cook died in her sleep at home on 7 September, within hours of showing symptoms of the coronavirus. She was unvaccinated, with children below the age of 12 not yet eligible for inoculation.

Her mother Karra Harwood, however, was also not jabbed and described herself as against vaccination. “I was one of the people that was anti, I was against it. Now, I wish I never was,” she told The Daily News.

Kali’s death comes amid reports of an increasing number of Delta variant cases being observed in children in the US.

Last month, the Galveston County health district recorded 1,382 cases of the virus in children younger than 12. Texas, till last week, reported at least 24 Covid-19 related deaths in children under the age of 10.

The child lived in Bacliff with her father, mother and four siblings, who were in quarantine after contracting the virus.

“I ended up getting Covid-19 and was diagnosed on Monday,” Ms Harwood said. “I came home and was isolated. I tried to stay away from her and didn’t want her and my other kids to get it.”

According to her mother, Kali's temperature increased at 2am and she was given medicine to try and bring the fever under control.

But by 7am Kali had died in her sleep, according to Ms Harwood. The child had no diagnosed immune disorders or other health conditions, she added.

“I did not murder my daughter. There are people getting vaccinated that are still getting Covid and they can still spread Covid,” the mother told news channel KPRC-TV.

The Galveston county medical examiner’s office confirmed the child's death was due to Covid-19 on 9 September after conducting examinations.

Health officials in a press statement said they didn’t believe the girl was infected at her school where she was studying in pre-kindergarten. Further contact tracing showed no students or adults who were in contact with the child tested positive for the coronavirus.

 

GCHD tweet:  https://twitter.com/...m-b1918895.html

 

Officials on 10 September conducted an autopsy to find out other information, including pre-existing health conditions that might have led to the girl’s death.

Ms Harwood's five-month-old baby has also been infected with the virus, she said. “I’ve taken him to the hospital every night since because I feel like they’re not getting better, and I’m terrified,” she added.

A report from the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that children made up at least 0.27 per cent of all Covid-19 deaths in 43 US states. In August, the city of Houston reported its first paediatric Covid-19 death with no underlying health conditions.

Kali’s family has set up a GoFundMe page to gather expenses for her funeral.

 

 

[zorba990]

And why is the slur "Anti-vaxxer" relevant here?
Are you under the (misguided) impression that 'vaccinated' individuals do not carry or spread Covid-19 or its hundreds of variants?

"According to her mother, Kali's temperature increased at 2am and she was given medicine to try and bring the fever under control."
What medicine was given? What dosage? What was the temp?

Of course anyone with an ounce of compassion and empathy would never want an innocent child to be harmed!
But this is just propaganda at this point.
If the status quo wasn't all over themselves denigrating treatments, people would not be hanging their hopes on the jabs,
and that child would have had help.


From the CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/...r-covid-19.html
"Today, some of those data were published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), demonstrating that Delta infection resulted in similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people. High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus. This finding is concerning and was a pivotal discovery leading to CDC’s updated mask recommendation. The masking recommendation was updated to ensure the vaccinated public would not unknowingly transmit virus to others, including their unvaccinated or immunocompromised loved ones."

[geo12the]

But this is just propaganda at this point.
 

 

And the anti-vax side does not spew out propaganda? Most of it exaggerations and lies?

And why is the slur "Anti-vaxxer" relevant here?
 

 

It's 100% relevant because people must live with the consequences of their actions, that's why. 

[APBT]

And why is the slur "Anti-vaxxer" relevant here?
Are you under the (misguided) impression that 'vaccinated' individuals do not carry or spread Covid-19 or its hundreds of variants?

 

If you are addressing me:

1. "Anti-vaxxer" is in the headline of the article.  I merely posted the article and link without prejudice.

2. I am completely aware that vaccinated or not, anyone can contract the virus and spread it or develop symptoms or die.  No one is 100% safe or protected. 

Edited by APBT, 15 September 2021 - 07:11 PM.

[Daniel Cooper]

And the anti-vax side does not spew out propaganda? Most of it exaggerations and lies?

 
I think both sides have been guilty of spewing out propaganda.
 
With respect this poor little girl, all we can go on are the data and the statistics.  
 
And the data says that four year olds dying from covid is a very rare event.
 
Provisional COVID-19 Deaths: Focus on Ages 0-18 - CDC.gov
 
159 deaths from 1/1/2020 to present in the US.
 
That is of the same order of magnitude as seasonal flu deaths (37 - 199).  
 
Flu & Young Children - CDC.gov

Every death is a tragedy and especially so with young children. But we have to keep these relative risks in perspective. 

 

 

[Gal220]

 I think both sides have been guilty of spewing out propaganda.

 

It has been strange, the hospital my wife works for is getting daily emails from staff trying to guilt trip people into getting it. 

This one doctor who already had covid said he was glad to have the vax so he didnt have to live with spreading it to others...yet his natural immunity gave him a much better chance of not spreading it.

Large outcry on the internet calling the CDC out for not acknowledging it, they do in Europe.

 

This article is behind the times as well, 2 weeks before it was written, there was already a paradigm shift of accepting everyone will get the virus. Dr. John Campbell discusses

https://www.youtube....h?v=JhRb5hnTseU

 

 

Ive long believed I would eventually catch it from my two kids at some point if not already(maybe asymptomatic). 

 

We should be focusing on making sure they keep their D, zinc, selenium levels up(multivitamin) and doing a daily gargle with a mouth wash containing iodine.