Uruguay to close schools as paediatric care nears 'collapse'

Breaking: Uruguay is closing schools and colleges to avoid the possible collapse of paediatric emergency care as authorities say "many children are in ICU" with respiratory illnessess

https://ko-fi.com/Post/Uruguay-to-close-schools-as-paediatric-care-nears-Q5Q0MR31K

 

Some media outlets in Canada are still referring to it as a 'mystery illness'.

 

One of the most monstrous aspects of herd immunity moderated by vaccination is the fact that much of the world never had access to vaccines. It's such a mindlessly egocentric perspective, one that clearly says "I and my family will be fine, and that is all I really care about".

Double monstrosity that it comes from people whose job it is to think about this, from infectious disease doctors and public health officers. And so much of what ID specialists have to think about is exactly that, how poorer countries have to deal with much higher risk factors, a lot of their usual work is about exactly that and concentrated in the tropics, and they just threw it all out the window for plastic smiles and brunches.

And wow will it bite everyone in the ass when what little immunity those vaccines conferred will be gone with the combination of waning efficacy and variants moving too far away from what the vaccines can protect against. It's made so much worse by how it's common knowledge that a vaccine for the flu is so difficult precisely because it has to target the main variant going around at the peak of the season.

We really are a species expert at kicking ourselves in the balls.