- Cases among the 19-and-under age cohort for the first time exceeded cases among the next youngest cohort, 20-39-year-olds.
- And the youngest group accounted for 34.5% of all new cases, a record high for that group.
- There was an awful lot of testing going on over the past week, so perhaps children are being tested at record levels.
- And an increased number of asymptomatic cases are being found among them.
A Halifa Examiner news source by Tim Bousquet says that more children are getting affected by Covid 19. The numbers are increasing steadily.
Older people are getting vaccinated
And older people are getting vaccinated, and that could be reducing (although not eliminating) new cases among them, so younger age cohorts are a greater percentage of the total.
But that all feels like explanatory justification to obfuscate the point: young people are getting COVID at record levels.
They’ve gone from having zero new daily cases three weeks ago to having 50-70/day over the weekend.
What accounts for that increase?
Are children getting a lot of COVID because their parents are bringing it home to them? Could be, but we can’t say, because we’re not given enough information to know that — unlike in some provinces, Nova Scotia doesn’t tell us if new cases that are close contacts are household contacts or cases that were contracted out in the world.
Was COVID spread widely in schools?
The province has stopped providing detailed information about school cases, like, for instance, if there have been multiple cases in individual schools, and if so, how many.
Schools have been closed for two weeks, but maybe school-based cases are heavily represented in the the backlogged positive cases? Who knows? It’s a state secret.
Likewise for cases in day care centres. Parents have told us that day care operators have had a gag order placed on them.
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Source: Halifa Examiner
