Related: Women in the War Zone
It's a matching set and pair, dear readers.
This the Pharma-$hilling Globe's concern here:
"Parents worried about coronavirus are missing vaccination appointments — opening the door to outbreaks of a different kind" by Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff, April 30, 2020
Parents fearful of the coronavirus are shying away from pediatricians’ offices, missing those critical visits when children get immunized and opening the door to outbreaks of illnesses more dangerous to young people than COVID-19, local doctors say.
Doctors say that, while researchers are far from developing a vaccine against the coronavirus, parents should not forgo the arsenal of effective shots already available for other highly infectious diseases such as measles, whooping cough, and mumps.
The use of the word arsenal $pells it all out for you, as UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock says the peak of the pandemic is not expected to hit the world’s poorest countries for three to six months, but he said there is already evidence of incomes plummeting and jobs disappearing, food supplies falling and prices soaring, and children missing vaccinations and meals.
They are $o, $o ¢on¢erned with the goddamn va¢¢ines!
“This is a huge concern for pediatricians across the country and in Massachusetts,” said Dr. Elizabeth Goodman, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. “What we don’t want to see is a rise in vaccine-preventable disease in the midst of trying to deal with coronavirus.”
The pediatric practices are all affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital (blog editor shudders at the thought).
Some of these visits can be safely deferred, and others can be handled by phone or video chat, but many situations require in-person visits, and doctors worry that parents, fearful of the coronavirus, are unwittingly putting their children at greater risk by not seeking care.
They are keeping them safe by not getting the "arsenal" of shots.
Infants and toddlers, in particular, need the doctor’s personal attention: holding and touching to track their growth and assess their health, and, especially, administering the full schedule of vaccinations, and there’s evidence that’s not happening.
Pediatricians are calling and cajoling parents, promising to keep their children safe. Many have taken measures that physically separate the well from the sick — something not always done in the past, but now seen as a necessary accommodation to address COVID-19 fears. Others are trying innovations like drive-through inoculations, or letting parents wait in the car until it’s time to come in.
The minute they talk about separating family members from each other is the minute they lost all the good will and trust. Only monsters do that!
Boston Medical Center’s pediatricians are going a long step farther, traveling to patients’ homes, conducting office visits in the back of an ambulance.
Where is your gun, citizen?
“We figured we have to do something or we’re going to have a whole cohort of children who were unvaccinated,” said Dr. Eileen Costello, the hospital’s chief of ambulatory pediatrics. “The same population of adults who are suffering from COVID — their kids are going to be suffering from vaccine-preventable illnesses.”
Vaccines don't prevent anything (flu vaccines 50% effective at best), and the adjuvants are often more harmful than the disease!
It gets even $icker:
Though in operation for less than three weeks, the program has drawn attention from doctors around the country who want to emulate it, Costello said. Boston Medical Center plans a webinar with the American Academy of Pediatrics, she said.
The program was made possible by a donation: Brewster Ambulance Service provided an ambulance and driver for five days a week. With a nurse and doctor on board, the vehicle has been visiting 10 to 12 families a day since April 13.
When the hospital started calling parents whose children were due for a vaccine, offering to visit, parents were appreciative and surprised — one even thought it was a prank call — said Tami Chase, director of ambulatory nursing.
What is with the brownshirt, fascist?
I'm sure there will be plenty of parents that are not as appreciative -- especially in the African-American community, where they have often been used as test subjects without knowing it.
Tuskegee!
On Wednesday morning, the ambulance pulled into Rebecca Dittami’s driveway in Dorchester. She stepped onto the porch with her three children and happily greeted their pediatrician, Dr. Rachel S. Sagor. The doctor wore a gown, gloves, mask and face shield, but the protective gear couldn’t conceal her delight.
Sagor loves these home visits. “I love being able to see where my patients live and see them active and healthy,” she said.
Now roll your f**king sleeve up for some toxic and poisonous potion!
The back of the ambulance has been converted into a somewhat cramped mobile doctor’s office.....
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I see those poor, precious kids in the photograph and wonder what toxic poisons they are being injected with and it is heartbreaking.
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Soon afterward, children started falling ill with a mysterious inflammatory syndrome thought to be linked to coronavirus:
"New York City is launching a public service campaign to inform parents about a rare syndrome that is thought to be linked to COVID-19 and has been diagnosed in more than 80 children in the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. Digital ads alerting parents to the symptoms of the inflammatory condition in children started start Wednesday, de Blasio said, and ads on radio and TV, on bus shelters, and in community newspapers will follow. The syndrome affects blood vessels and organs and has symptoms including prolonged fever, abdominal pain, and vomiting. Three children diagnosed with the syndrome have died in New York state, including one in New York City. Of the 82 children diagnosed with pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome in the city, 53 tested positive either for COVID-19 or for its antibodies, de Blasio said. Meanwhile, New York City took its first tentative step toward opening schools in September, sending out about 62,000 offers to parents of 4-year-olds for its all-day pre-kindergarten program, Mayor Bill de Blasio said."
My first reaction was a real or stronger bioweapon was released, the planned terror strike and Plannedemic II that the was prophesied by the evil Bill Gates.
"New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that New York is now investigating about 100 cases of an inflammatory syndrome possibly linked to COVID-19. A total of 52 children in New York City alone have been diagnosed and another 10 cases are pending, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. Of those 62 confirmed or possible cases, 25 have tested positive for the coronavirus and another 22 had antibodies for the virus, de Blasio said. One child has died. The syndrome affects blood vessels and organs and has symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease and toxic shock. Three children in the state have died and Cuomo advised all hospitals to prioritize COVID-19 testing for children presenting with symptoms."
It was perplexing as the vape crisis(!?!), readers:
"COVID-19 was thought largely to spare children. Now a rare inflammatory syndrome seen in the young has doctors perplexed" by Deanna Pan Globe Staff, May 13, 2020
A rare and mysterious inflammatory syndrome afflicting as many as 100 children in New York has emerged in Massachusetts, upending prevailing notions about COVID-19′s impact on the young, who were initially thought to be largely spared of serious illness from the coronavirus outbreak.
(Blog editor tosses hands in air as the relentless agenda-pushing never f**king stops. Only one cla$$ is immune!)
Boston Children’s Hospital has treated six patients with what doctors are now calling “pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome," which may be linked to the coronavirus. The new syndrome affects multiple organs, and its symptoms include fever, skin rashes, and eye redness. Two of the children are currently hospitalized at Boston Children’s, though not in the intensive care unit, according to a spokeswoman. MassGeneral Hospital for Children has treated at least four patients with the syndrome, a spokeswoman confirmed. Baystate Children’s Hospital in Springfield also has seen a small but unspecified number of cases of the puzzling new illness, according to Dr. Donna Fisher, the hospital’s chief of infectious diseases.
PFFFFT!
They have also linked excess flatulence to COVID, too.
“Children were thought to be protected from COVID, and there were very few cases of severe complications, and the majority of those cases with severe complications were in children with a lot of underlying conditions that would predispose them to getting sick," said Dr. Adrienne Randolph, a senior critical care physician at Boston Children’s Hospital. “Now we’re seeing this complication in children who are relatively healthy as well.”
You f**kers. First you kill off our elderly and now you are coming for the children.
Don't expect a visit to the pediatrician anytime soon!
This new inflammatory syndrome has mystified physicians since reports of the condition first surfaced in the United Kingdom in April and made headlines in the United States last week. Doctors don’t know why this new syndrome, which resembles a rare childhood inflammatory illness known as Kawasaki disease, has affected some children, including previously healthy ones, or why children are at greater risk of developing this condition than adults.
Well, if it "resembles" it, maybe that IS IT!
What NYC bio-lab let it loose?
“The short answer is that we don’t honestly know,” said Dr. Jane Newburger, a cardiologist and director of Boston Children’s Kawasaki Program, “but we think it could be a direct effect of the virus. It could also be, we think, more likely, the body’s own reaction to the virus or even the antibodies the body is making against the virus that is causing this extreme inflammatory reaction.”
Honestly?
Why the need to emphasize the honest veracity, unless.... NOOOOOOO!
Dozens of cases of the new syndrome have been reported across the United States, including in places hard hit by the pandemic, like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Michigan, Washington, and Louisiana, in addition to several countries in Europe. In New York, where at least three children linked to the dangerous new disease have died, about 100 cases are under investigation.
Little out of proportion given COVID, no?
Randolph of Boston Children’s is leading a nationwide study, called “Overcoming COVID-19,” on the effect of the virus in children and young adults age 25 and younger, with $2.1 million in funding from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. As of Wednesday morning, Randolph said she had collected preliminary reports of suspected cases of pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome from hospitals in 19 states and Washington, D.C.
Oh, so this is a way to GIVE AWAY TAX LOOT to the well-connected agenda-pu$hers, huh?
The state’s Department of Public Health is working with hospitals to gather data on the new syndrome, said department spokeswoman Ann Scales, and hopes to release a “complete statewide count soon."
The symptoms of pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome are similar to Kawasaki disease, a rare and poorly understood condition that causes inflammation in the blood vessels and, in severe cases, aneurysms in the coronary arteries. Like Kawasaki patients, children with this new inflammatory condition are arriving at hospitals with high fevers, rashes, bloodshot eyes, swollen hands and feet, and in some alarming instances, enlarged coronary arteries.
Many of these patients don’t exhibit the tell-tale respiratory symptoms associated with COVID-19. Several have not tested positive for infection, and only through antibody testing is their exposure to the coronavirus later confirmed.
LIARS!
Unlike Kawasaki disease, which primarily afflicts infants and children younger than 5, several cases of this new condition have occurred in older children and teenagers, Newburger said. Children with this syndrome also tend to be sicker than the typical Kawasaki patient, according to Newburger, with more inflammation and gastrointestinal symptoms, like diarrhea and vomiting. Some patients with this COVID-related disease have shown signs of toxic shock, a rare and life-threatening complication among Kawasaki sufferers, characterized by low blood pressure and an insufficient supply of blood to the body’s organs, Newburger said.
Were there any 5G towers nearby?
A small study published on May 7 in The Lancet of eight children with the new syndrome may provide some clues about the condition’s etiology: All except one of the children were “well above the 75th percentile for weight,” according to the paper, and six were of Afro-Caribbean descent. It’s unknown whether those children were disproportionately represented based on socioeconomic or biologic factors, Newburger said. “That’s kind of the million dollar question," she said. “Is this overrepresentation related to the fact that there are social factors that cause them to be more likely exposed, or is it something fundamental?”
Doctors are treating the new disease with therapies that have been effective in Kawasaki patients, including intravenous immunoglobulin, anticoagulation medications, and steroids for curbing inflammation, Newburger said. Some children have needed respiratory support.
Poor kids.
At Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital in Connecticut, three children have been treated for the new syndrome. Dr. Thomas Murray, a pediatrician at Yale New Haven specializing in infectious diseases, said all three required intensive care at some point during their hospitalization and improved with anti-inflammatory treatment.
While the new syndrome is still relatively rare, Murray said, he wouldn’t be surprised if case numbers continue to rise as public awareness of the condition increases. Parents should alert their family’s pediatrician if their children show any signs associated with the new disease — whether or not they’ve had a known exposure to the coronavirus — including persistent fever, skin rashes, eye redness, abdominal pain, and muscle aches.
“Compared to adults, children have been very, very fortunate. ... Even with this rare complication, the adults have still had to deal with a much higher burden of disease than children," Murray said. "Having said that, this has the potential, when it does occur, to be a very serious complication. The good news is we can treat it, but ... it’s definitely something new and different that up until a few weeks ago we certainly weren’t expecting.”
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"Public health officials order Mass. hospitals to report cases of new coronavirus-linked disease in children" by Deanna Pan Globe Staff, May 14, 2020
The state Department of Public Health is ordering health care providers to notify it of cases of a rare and newly identified pediatric inflammatory disorder linked to the novel coronavirus that has hospitalized at least nine children in Massachusetts and afflicted more than 100 others across the country, most of them in New York.
What a Schlapp in the face.
State officials issued a clinical advisory Thursday morning, requiring hospitals to report confirmed and suspected cases of pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or PMIS, to the public health agency. By late afternoon Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had sent out a nationwide health alert on the new syndrome, criteria for its diagnosis, and instructions for health care providers to report cases to their local, state, or territorial health department.
I'm sick of them fudging the numbers on everything!
The new syndrome resembles a rare childhood illness called Kawasaki disease, and its symptoms include fever, skin rashes, eye redness, and gastrointestinal issues. Dozens of cases of the dangerous new condition have cropped up in several European countries and across the United States. In New York, three children who were diagnosed with the syndrome have died.
“We do not know what the prevalence is of the condition in Massachusetts yet, and that’s why the public health order is so important," said Marylou Sudders, the state’s secretary of health and human services, at a press conference Thursday with Governor Charlie Baker. “We want to put out what the conditions are so that we know what the potential prevalence of this is in our state.”
Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders spoke at the state's daily coronavirus press briefing in the Massachusetts State House on May 8. (Chris Van Buskirk/Pool).
Would you trust her with your kids?
Cases of the new disorder reported to the state Department of Public Health must meet the following criteria: The patients must be under the age of 21 and have a persistent fever of higher than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) for 24 hours or longer. They must also have laboratory evidence of inflammation and signs of serious illness, such as single or multi-organ dysfunction.
The order stipulates that there should be “no evidence of alternative plausible diagnoses." Patients must also test positive for COVID-19 or coronavirus antibodies. If their test results are negative for respiratory pathogens, they need to have been exposed to the coronavirus sometime in the past four weeks prior to the onset of symptoms.
(Blog editor agains throws hand up as they tie these cases -- if they even exist -- to COVID)
Only nine suspected cases of the new syndrome have been reported to date in children at Massachusetts hospitals, according to the advisory. It did not list which hospitals have reported cases so far. Boston Children’s Hospital told the Globe this week that doctors have treated six patients with PMIS. According to physicians at MassGeneral Hospital for Children, two cases that met the state’s criteria for the new condition were reported to public health officials, and three additional cases remain under investigation.
They are calling it a PMS disease?
“We have other patients that we’re concerned [about], and we’re doing thorough evaluations and we’re looking for alternative causes for their fevers and high inflammation," said Dr. Ann Murray, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Mass. General. “We’re suspicious.”
SO AM I!
Little is known about the new syndrome or why it has recently appeared in children, who were thought to suffer less severe complications from COVID-19 than adults. In a new study published Wednesday in The Lancet, doctors described an outbreak of a Kawasaki-like disease in the Bergamo province of northern Italy, one of the regions worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic. It’s possible, doctors surmised, “confounding factors” were at play in the negative test results.
I think they just answered their own question!
Kids were unaffected by COVID!
The serology tests used to detect antibodies are not 100 percent accurate and could produce false negatives, and one of the children who tested negative had just received a high dose of immunoglobulins, which could have concealed the presence of antibodies in the child’s bloodstream.
I thought that was important, but it was just an afterthought to the Globe.
According to the study, the 10 cases recorded in Italy over the two-month period represent a 30-fold increase in the monthly incidence of Kawaski-like cases, and compared with children who had been diagnosed with Kawasaki disease prior to the pandemic, these children had much more severe symptoms.
“We believe these findings have important implications for public health,” the doctors concluded. “The association between SARS-CoV-2 and Kawasaki-like disease should be taken into account when it comes to considering social reintegration policies for the [pediatric] population.”
The results are false, doc!
WTF?
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Also see: Kawasaki Disease and Covid-19
Beyond that post is this absolute powerhouse regarding the deaths in the nursing homes.
I've gone back and read it two more times, and it still deserves another going over. Penny gets major props for that post and the other other work over there.
And then, as quickly as the mysterious Kawaski-like virus appeared, it disappeared!
"Boston Children’s Hospital to lead coronavirus studies" by Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent, April 28, 2020
Boston Children’s Hospital will lead two studies investigating why most children and young adults infected with the novel coronavirus don’t become seriously ill, while some others do, the hospital said Tuesday.
They f**king shut down and destroyed an economy and robbed you of your future for that, the f**king criminals!
The $2.1 million nationwide Overcoming COVID-19 study, funded and overseen by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will collect data from 800 patients hospitalized at more than 35 children’s hospitals across the country, the hospital said.
Where is the trash can?
That data will be provided to the CDC in almost real time, and up to 400 of the patients will be closely monitored, including the routine collection of blood and respiratory samples, the hospital said.
Who cares, it's a $hit $tudy.
Dr. Adrienne Randolph, a senior critical care physician at Children’s Hospital and the principal investigator for the nationwide study, said it’s “very perplexing” that this virus has largely spared children and young adults from serious illness.
Is it?
What kind bug do you guys release?
It mutate and weaken like they all do?
“If this was an influenza pandemic, we would be inundated — inundated with patients” at Boston Children’s Hospital, she said in a phone interview Tuesday evening. “Children and young people are hit very hard in influenza pandemics, and otherwise healthy young people . . . there still will be mortality and severe, critical illness with an influenza pandemic. In this pandemic, we aren’t seeing that.”
Maybe we were because the flu numbers dropped as COVID's rose.
Instead, she said, COVID-19 hits older people hardest and generally becomes less serious for each decade subtracted from a patient’s age. Even infants, though their immune systems are still developing and they are extremely vulnerable to many viruses, are little affected by the coronavirus.
“It’s very surprising that they aren’t getting super-sick with this,” Randolph said.
HMMMMMMMMMMM!
Many theories have been put forward to explain why children are so little touched by the virus, but so far there haven’t been enough data to prove or disprove the notions, she said.
“There’s a lot of different ideas, and it’s all speculation,” Randolph said, adding later, “What we need at this point in this pandemic is some data. We need to do a really meticulously designed, very robust . . . epidemiological study.”
One might even say they are.... GULP.... CONSPIRACY THEORIES!
The Overcoming COVID-19 study will involve patients in ICUs, intermediate care units, and general wards, Children’s said. Some participating facilities will include patients who are infected but have no symptoms and patients with the flu, for comparison, the hospital said.
A separate initiative at the hospital, called Taking on COVID-19 Together, will examine the DNA of coronavirus patients, looking for variations that make people more or less susceptible to becoming ill, Children’s said. That initiative will also create a bank of tissue samples for researchers, minimizing the need for repeated gathering of samples and thus saving personal protective gear, the hospital said.
Stop right there, doc!
Because it’s uncommon for children to become seriously ill with the coronavirus, those who do may have “an underlying issue with their immune system,” Randolph said. “We want to figure out if they do.”
Or MAY NOT!
Researchers from Children’s will also study people treated as outpatients at the hospital, who had only mild symptoms, to determine their level of antibodies for the virus, Randolph said. That could help them figure out whether milder cases of the virus leave the body with fewer antibodies to fight off a later exposure.
Researchers at Children’s are also conducting other studies related to COVID-19, including an effort to develop a vaccine, the hospital said.
Oh, yeah, those!
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Also see:
Study offers details of US children severely sickened by coronavirus
Study confirms coronavirus effect on children’s health
So when is the parade?
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All that is in the backroom of the hospital while it is the child care facility that makes the front page:
"Child care providers, parents are struggling — and worried about what comes next" by Stephanie Ebbert and Dasia Moore Globe Staff, May 3, 2020
Struggling child care providers across Massachusetts say their prolonged closure for the coronavirus pandemic may result in their economic ruin, leaving working parents in the lurch.
The owners of child care centers, already closed for six weeks, are growing increasingly desperate, saying their small businesses are on the verge of collapse, and they’re concerned that Governor Charlie Baker is talking about reopening the state for business in mid-May though he has ordered their businesses closed through the end of June.
“As an industry, we’re confused why child care centers are being required to close for an additional month and a half," said Christopher Vuk, founder of Rock and Roll Daycare, which has five locations in Cambridge. "Who’s going to take care of the babies, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers that parents have to stay home to take care of?”
They are finished, and the kids will now be taken care of in the all-encompassing embrace of the state.
Besides, most parents will have nowhere to go or will be working from home so problem solved.
Vuk was one of several child care providers who launched petitions last week seeking state government assistance or a reopening date aligned with other businesses.
Good luck with that.
“Child care centers are in crisis, and under threat of closing permanently throughout our state,” said Vuk’s group of 29 child care operators, dubbed Daycares United, but unlike public schools — taxpayer-funded operations whose teachers are still being paid during the shutdown — child care centers are private businesses or nonprofits with ongoing rent and utility expenses and an interrupted revenue flow; many can’t justify charging parents tuition for care they aren’t providing, but operators were stung by their omission.
This was over a month ago, too.
Not everyone agrees with them; some child care providers, especially those who watch children in their own homes, reacted to the petition with alarm, expressing concern about safety.
Then close up for good and leave the business for the people that want it.
Last week, US Senator Elizabeth Warren led 30 senators in calling for a $50 billion bailout for struggling child care operations. She pointed to an analysis from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, which found that child care capacity could be cut in half nationwide and 34 percent in Massachusetts, leaving many parents unable to return to workplaces when they reopen.
Who remembers her, and even less after the nomination.
The proposed $50 billion fund would also boost pay for child care providers in the long term to shore up a fragile sector. Warren, who has called for universal child care, and other advocates say that the role child care providers play in maintaining the economy has long been undervalued.
“Access to child care can no longer be viewed as a work-life accessory that individual families should sort out for themselves," said Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, cofounder of Neighborhood Villages, which advocates for child care policy reform. "If COVID-19 has shown us one thing, it’s that child care is a collective necessity. It’s a public good.”
Yay for COVID, and it $ure looks and $mells Communist to me.
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Related:
Audit finds child cares lacking background checks
What, no bailout?
Where is Ivanka these days anyway?
Here is what the day-care centers might look like once reopened:
"Day care reopening may exclude infants" by Stephanie Ebbert Globe Staff May 22, 2020
Well.... that's who needs to be.... WTF?
As they develop health and safety protocols to reopen child-care centers amid the coronavirus pandemic, state regulators are considering an extreme measure — barring infants.
Children younger than 15 months old would be initially excluded from group care under one proposal now being evaluated by state early education regulators.
It’s a possibility that parents find confounding as many begin to contemplate a return to their jobs after months of trying to work from home.
“It’s crazy and I really hope that the governor looks at that,” said Wayne Friberg, whose 7-month-old son attends Little Stars Learning Center in South Dennis. “We need to do something for the families out there that do need infant care.”
Time to start realizing $tate a$$holes don't care about you and your kids.
If they did, none of what has happened the last few months would have happened at all.
They are CRIMINALS!
Another father questioned the restriction of infants from child care when they are mingled at home.
“So it’s going to be OK for my 2 ½-year old to go to day care and then come home and slobber all over my infant?” asked Sean Howe.
Howe, of Waltham, said his wife’s office doesn’t reopen until July, but she expects to begin working from home when her maternity leave ends in early June.
“We were counting on day care for that time. How do you watch a toddler and an infant and still work?” he asked.
Parents and child-care providers have grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of clarity about the future of child care, as businesses began the first phase of reopening this week. Governor Charlie Baker ordered all early education centers and family child-care providers closed by March 23, while letting some continue operating as emergency-care programs for essential workers. He later extended the closure to June 29 — six weeks after some other businesses begin opening.
We will get to that shortly; however, the lack of information comes from an administration that is supposedly tops in transparency if you read the Globe and gobble up all the case totals and daily death tolls and all.
Business leaders and advocates have been agitating for more coordination, noting employees can’t get back to work if their children are at home, but even as they prepare for an eventual reopening, the state’s Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) has given licensees few specifics about what to expect. During a webinar with providers on Wednesday evening, the department’s commissioner, Samantha L. Aigner-Treworgy, pointed to the need for face masks, regular screening and monitoring of children’s health, heightened sanitation, and reduced group ratios — but without details. “This will be a very different kind of child care than we knew previously,” said Aigner-Treworgy.
Keep your kids home then.
The state already had strict regulations governing the ratio of child-care teachers to students in a room at any one time, but at a time of social distancing, those numbers are likely to be reduced even further. A document first reported by Boston 25 WFXT said that, in addition to excluding infants, child-care centers may need to limit the group in any room to 10 people, including teachers.
At this point, one starts to wonder how one can $u$tain the bu$ine$$, know what I mean?
Only CORPORATE CONGLOMERATES and the $TATE will be in BU$INE$$ in the post-COIVD world, huh?
Both moves would have potentially devastating financial implications for child-care providers, who have already been shut down for two months and who make their highest rates from infants, who require a higher level of care and a lower teacher ratio.
“It’s physical contact all day long,” said Brittany Moscoso, the mother of a preschooler and a newborn who she was expecting would start day care by fall. “It’s something that we worry about,” she said, “but on the other hand — what do I do about my full-time job?”
I would be worried about the motorcycle disease, too!
Susan Dunn, the owner and director of Early Childhood School of Georgetown, said that by eliminating her infant room — one of six classrooms in her center — she would lose about $15,000 income a month. “It will kill so many programs,” said Charlie Marcotty, a co-owner of First Circle Learning Centers in Lexington and Framingham. “We can’t operate that way.” Marcotty said she needs to operate at about 85 percent of capacity to break even.
It will KILL MORE than the VIRU$!
Aigner-Treworgy suggested during the webinar that the state is prepared to provide assistance to child-care centers that would be hurt by reduced attendance, but she was not specific. The state was awarded $45 million in funds for child care from the federal CARES Act, which has not been disbursed, though a spokeswoman said the administration is working with the Legislature to make those funds available.
They are $ITTING on the CHILD CARE MONEY?
You GOTTA be $HITTING ME!
Time for a diaper change!
Oh, wait, don't have to do that anymore.
It’s unclear exactly why infants would be excluded from group care, though they obviously require more hands-on care. Though children and teens are at lower risk from the coronavirus than adults, infants are thought to face a slightly higher risk of severe illness from it due to immature immune systems and smaller airways, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Providers noted that other states did not shut down day-care centers at all and that infants have not been restricted from the emergency child-care programs that the state permitted in recent months.
“There’s no data that backs this up,” said Marcotty.
Good Lord, they killed an industry, economy, livelihoods, and dreams over no goddamn dat6a and faulty f**ing models!
Those emergency child-care programs also commingled children of a wide array of ages — from infants to 14 years old.
Can't the 14-year-olds take care of themselves?
I did -- by nece$$ity, readers!
Friberg noted that his child-care center is operating as an emergency-care program and his baby has been able to attend, since his wife is a physician assistant. Would the baby be bumped under the new protocol? he questioned.
“It just doesn’t make sense,” Friberg said.
Friberg gets his concerns attended to, huh?
So far, the Baker administration has not offered much clarity. Asked what data were driving the decision-making on reopening child-care centers, Colleen Quinn, director of communications in the Executive Office in Education, said in a statement: “Massachusetts is one of hardest hit states impacted by the coronavirus. The Departments of Early Education and Care and Public Health are developing guidelines that balance families’ need for child care with [the] health and safety of residents and child-care providers.”
They never f**king do, and yet he is the nation's most popular governor being pimped by the Globe.
She noted the department is working with Public Health and the administration’s Command Center and added, “EEC understands that all decisions have an impact on providers and will keep in close communication with providers before final decisions are made."
What Command Center?
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With you out of business, there will only be one provider left:
"Why are emergency child-care programs so empty?; Emergency child-care centers were meant to be a lifeline for parents, but providers say they’re drowning" by Dasia Moore and Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff, May 03, 2020
When the state announced it would allow some child-care centers to remain open despite COVID-19 closures, it expected to be flooded with children in need.
Instead, only about 2,500 children are attending child-care programs with space for 10,000.
Governor Charlie Baker said last week it’s not clear why the centers aren’t being used.
“We set it up at that level because we thought with the essential work community that we have, that would be the kind of number that people would be looking for,” Baker said. State officials have been alerting area employers to the extra capacity, but “for one reason or another, it hasn’t been accessed yet," he said.
I will tell you why, a$$hole. It is an unintended consequence of your dictatorial actions as well as a lengthy distrust of government.
These guys (like Patrick running for president) are so f**king egotistical with God-like delusions that they thought we would all be running into their arms for sanctuary, failing to realize that we see them as evil monsters who destroyed lives and wrecked an economy.
Beyond that, his f**king strategy failed! We are in the top five in all categories despite the tyranny, and the "it would have been worse argument" doesn't carry and credibility since the lockdown was based on faulty models -- models they are still using!
The state’s Exempt Emergency Child Care Program was designed to help parents who had no way of caring for their children with child-care centers closed: emergency services workers who didn’t have a family member at home who could baby-sit; homeless and otherwise at-risk families whose children had nowhere safe to spend their days. Families that met the criteria could attend free of charge, and the state would foot the bill.
Access was meant to be limited — not only for cost but for safety. The state Department of Early Education and Care, which licenses and oversees child-care settings, encouraged families to use emergency care as a last resort and to “keep children out of group-care settings to the greatest extent possible," but some emergency child-care providers interpreted the state’s criteria so strictly that they have limited access even more than intended, they revealed in interviews. Some believed that both parents had to be essential workers and that if any adult was at home, even working full time, the family would be disqualified.
“There are pretty stringent requirements of who can actually use this," said Christopher Vuk, who owns Rock and Roll Daycares, and whose Inman Square location is now providing emergency care. "We’ve had plenty of people come, but we have to deny them.”
SIGH
Another emergency day-care operator, who wished to remain anonymous, agreed with Vuk’s interpretation, but Colleen Quinn, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Early Education and Care, said that’s not true. A child is eligible for emergency care if just one parent is an essential worker, or if the child is homeless or deemed at-risk by the state.
Parents and providers alike have been confused about the criteria, said SEIU Local 509 president Peter MacKinnon, whose union represents many essential workers, as well as certain family child-care providers.
“What has happened is, some of the providers heard the advisory at the beginning and they’ve heard that as like a steadfast rule,” said MacKinnon. “There have been some barriers.”
Other parents, MacKinnon said, wrongly believed that they need to call in every day to ask whether there is a child-care spot available for their child, but most are probably steering clear of the program for a simple reason: They are concerned about safety and social distancing, and the state has kept all other child-care centers closed for the past six weeks.
“People are scared,” said Vuk.
Some providers are wary of exposure, too. Cheryl McCarthy, who has provided child care from her Southwick home for the past 23 years, wanted to offer emergency care, but was dissuaded by her three children, who couldn’t face the thought of a devastating respiratory disease; just a year ago, her husband had died after being on a ventilator.
Still, more than 500 child-care providers stepped up as emergency caregivers, eager to help families in their communities and eager for help themselves. Even as the state overestimated the number of working parents who desperately needed child care, it underestimated the number of child-care providers who desperately needed income.
“We thought, this is a perfect opportunity for us to step up. To do something for the greater good,” said Tonya Stump, who runs the Little Stars Learning Center in South Dennis with her daughter, Sydney Stump, “but we also wanted to try to be able to be here when this is all over, to keep our doors open.”
Running an emergency center turned out to be less of a lifeline than the Stumps expected, though. The funding the state has provided is not covering all their costs — the snacks, the utility bills, the rent, the cleaning supplies. The Stumps have not taken salaries themselves and used all of their emergency program grant money to pay teachers.
They are now sitting on $45 million, $o.... ??
Under the program, day-care centers can receive up to $20,000 per month for operating two classrooms with up to 20 students each. At maximum capacity, that would deliver just $100 per child per week — about a third of the regular weekly tuition of $300 to $350 per child. At that rate, the Stumps couldn’t pay the number of teachers they need to staff those rooms.
“The reality is this: Even if we decided to take the 40 kids, we couldn’t afford to take the 40 kids,” said Tonya Stump.
Tonya Stump said it is this complicated financial calculus — not lack of demand from parents — that has led to underenrollment in the emergency child-care program. “The numbers are giving the impression that there’s not a need for care, when in fact owners are having to make choices and decisions to limit care,” she said.
Are you $ick of excu$es like me, readers?
The Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care said the grants are not intended to cover providers’ full operating costs. “The intent is to help ease the financial burden on programs that have stepped forward and partnered with EEC to provide assistance to families in this unprecedented global health care crisis,” the department’s website reads.
The $tate $horted you again, huh?
That could explain why emergency child-care providers who provide family care — in their homes — generally expressed more satisfaction than those who operate day-care centers with payroll to maintain.
“It’s helpful," said Evelyn Poku, who is caring for four children in her Worcester home. “Without this program, I wouldn’t have even managed to pay my rent.”
I'm glad someone could pay their rents!
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By the time they open in July, the kids will already be off to summer camp:
"The idyllic experience of summer camp ― marked by group activities, communal living, and care-free fellowship ― is in jeopardy because of the COVID-19 pandemic....."
"Baker says camps, child care can reopen during phase two of reopening" by Stephanie Ebbert Globe Staff, June 1, 2020
Day camps and child care facilities will be allowed to reopen during the next phase of Massachusetts’ gradual reopening of the economy, once they have met several requirements for keeping children and staff safe, Governor Charlie Baker said Monday.
Though overnight camps will not be able to reopen until later this summer, day camps and child care centers can begin to submit plans after they satisfy the newly released minimum requirements during the second phase of reopening, which is slated to begin as soon as Monday.
The new rules were announced as the Massachusetts death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surged to more than 7,000 and the total number of cases surpassed 100,000. The higher-than-usual spike was a result of the state’s decision to begin including probable as well as confirmed cases in its tallies. There were 189 new deaths and 3,840 new cases reported. In terms of confirmed numbers, the state reported 48 new fatalities and 326 new cases.
There they go again, f**king with the numbers!
What a bunch of DAMNABLE LIARS!
The guidelines for camp and day care, released by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, call for children and staff to have their temperature checked every day before they enter. Parents will also answer have to a series of questions about the health of the child and all others in their household, including specifics on individual symptoms, before the child can enter a day care space. Staff and children over 2 are encouraged to wear masks whenever 6 feet of physical distancing is not possible.
Considering the heat, I would forget summer camp considering the camp counselors.
Children will be restricted to groups of 10 and must remain with the same staff and the same children throughout the day. Staff cannot “float” among groups during the day or day-to-day unless needed to supervise specialized activities, such as swimming or archery, that involves different groups; however, regulators did not restrict any children based on age. The department had considered initially excluding infants, who demand the most hands-on care, from reopened child care centers.
“It’s much better than we expected. I’m really pleased to see that,” said Christopher Vuk, the owner of Rock and Roll Daycare. He launched a petition and an advocacy group called Daycares United to represent the needs of some 100 centers struggling during the shutdown. “I don’t think it solves everything but it’s a big win.”
(Blog editor shakes head. Being happy with the crumbs tyranny throws you gets us nowhere)
Teresa Greenberg, who owns Early Risers in Brookline Village, said she felt “overwhelmed” by the new requirements but would meet them. “What’s most important is that our teachers are excited to come back,” she said. “We’ve been preparing them for this new normal. They are nervous but they miss the children and they want to get back to work.”
Her husband, Jason Greenberg, added that he wants to prepare those teachers to ensure they’re ready. “We’re going to be spending at least an entire week before reopening retraining our teachers, putting them in situations that are difficult to navigate,” he said.
Also Monday, the Baker administration released new guidelines for retailers, extending many of the same measures that have been in place for essential businesses to nonessential stores.
Storefronts must limit visitors to 40 percent occupancy and are encouraged to offer special hours for at-risk customers. Indoor malls and other multitenant buildings must also monitor the number of people coming and going through common areas and keep the children’s indoor play areas as well as seating at food courts closed.
The governor mandated that both shoppers and workers should wear masks in stores, and he encouraged store owners to create appointment-only shopping as a way to limit the number of people coming in and out. Customers shouldn’t expect to try things on once they make their way back into stores: Fitting rooms will be closed and offering make-up and perfume samples will not be permitted.
Supermarket is it then, for as long as it lasts.
“We want to thank the Baker/Polito administration for this important step of small business flexibility and consumer choice,” Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, said in a statement. “As we move forward to both safe shopping and economic growth, we urge our consumers to remember that they should shop like jobs depend on it, because they do.”
He then dropped to his knees, unzipped fly, pulled out..... you know, before then grabbing ankles and spreading cheek.
Meanwhile, Massachusetts pledged to lower its percentage of daily tests that are positive for COVID-19 under 5 percent by the end of July, under an agreement with federal officials that provides the state with $374 million to greatly expand testing.
They want to test everybody, the $ick f**kers!
It's time, folks.
Under the plan, the Baker administration also pledged to increase lab testing capacity to 45,000 a day by the end of July. It currently has the capacity to test up to 30,000 daily, the plan said. As part of that ramp up, the state said its own lab, which is processing about 400 tests daily, will receive high-tech machinery that will allow it to complete roughly 1,300 per day.
Hopefully, they won't be as sloppy as the state drug labs!
The administration told federal regulators it will ensure “timely” access to testing for all symptomatic individuals, including those with “mild symptoms” and their close contacts. Additionally, the plan pledges to increase access to testing for “vulnerable and high-risk populations.”
It will NEVER END until EVERYONE has been TESTED!
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Now off to school with you:
"Survey offers snapshot of Boston Public Schools families struggling to cope with crisis; Overwhelmed parents say they need more academic and financial support, School buses have been idle since Boston schools were closed eight weeks ago" by Malcolm Gay Globe Staff May 15, 2020
Boston families are foundering as they try to navigate remote learning while beset by financial hardship, housing insecurity, and mental health issues, according to a survey by the Boston Public Schools.
The survey, of more than 24,000 families, provides a snapshot of a district in crisis, where more than one out of every three families say they need greater academic support for students’ online learning.
In addtion, nearly a quarter need extra financial support, and one out of every five has experienced housing insecurity.
“The COVID-19 crisis has magnified the inequities that persist in our community,” Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said in a statement to the Globe. She said school officials will continue "to assist and reassure our families that we’re all in this together and that we will continue to do everything in our power to support and care for them.”
The district distributed the survey to better assess the needs of families as they grapple with the unprecedented crisis brought on by the pandemic, which has upended American life, shuttering schools and forcing parents into the difficult balancing act of educating their children while trying to earn a living.
No, politicians did that!
The survey, available in 10 languages, suggests that some BPS measures are making a difference. For instance, in the eight weeks since Boston schools stopped holding in-person classes, the district has distributed more than 31,000 Chromebooks to students. It has also delivered 2,600 Wi-Fi hot spots to families in need. In the survey, just 5 percent of respondents said they had a need for better Internet access, but much work remains to be done: The survey indicates that, as of last week, 14 percent of Boston families had experienced food insecurity, even though BPS has turned school buildings into emergency food sites, supplying nearly half a million meals since the crisis began.
Nice pat on the back, and we are f**ked, folks.
Now, under a new program, parents of Boston’s 50,000 or so public school students will receive benefits equal to about $400 per child to help pay for meals on days when schools were closed due to the pandemic, but by far the biggest need families identified is greater academic support while students learn at home. Thirty-six percent of respondents said they needed more help from the schools as they took on an unfamiliar role as home-schooling parents, often while trying to work from home or care for other children.
The district has directed schools to provide, on average, three hours a day of teacher-guided learning, and it has instructed staff to have one-on-one check-ins with students every three days, but that’s far less attention than many students received when they were actually going to school.
Siobhan Mahon, whose son is in the sixth grade at the Ohrenberger School, said he’s having a hard time staying motivated and is logging about two hours of classes a day.
“There are too many distractions, and then I’m working from home myself,” she said. “I don’t know how they could make it any easier . . . Unless they want to come by the house and say, ‘Get your stuff done; your teacher’s outside.’ ”
With about a quarter of the state’s workers unemployed, it’s perhaps unsurprising that 24 percent of Boston families report needing financial support. Nearly as many report housing insecurity, a testament to how the current public health crisis, coupled with the city’s high cost of living, have left many unable to pay the rent or the mortgage, leaving them at risk of homelessness.
"There were a lot of families living close to the edge before the pandemic hit,” said Robert Triest, chair of the economics department at Northeastern University. “The cost of living is so high in Boston that it doesn’t take much of a shock to initiate housing insecurity.”
Get the hell out of that $tinking f**king city!
School officials say they’ve been heavily involved in housing issues, too, noting that the Homeless Education Resource Network has helped refer 400 families to the Boston Hosuing Authority for housing vouchers. On the other hand, just 4 percent of respondents said they needed health care, and with so many people out of work or working from home, only 3 percent said they needed child care.
Did you catch that last bit, kids?
Baker's question has been answered!
A district spokesperson said the central office is sharing respondent information with individual schools to contact families who filled out the survey to try to connect them with necessary services.
"The survey gave us important information that we are using to provide families with access to food, adequate technology, Internet connectivity, housing supports and more,” Cassellius said. “It’s more important than ever to make sure all of our students and their families are safe, healthy, and supported.”
PFFFFT!
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Related:
"Burgess Clark, the former artistic director of the Boston Children’s Theatre, who was accused last year of inappropriate behavior by more than a dozen former students, has filed a lawsuit against the nonprofit organization alleging he is owed more than $227,000 in unpaid wages and severance pay. In the complaint filed Tuesday in Essex Superior Court, Clark claimed he was terminated from his job without cause and was due $45,000 in severance, six months of health insurance payments, plus $182,252 in unpaid wages dating back to 2017. The assertion about being fired drew an immediate rebuke from Jim Solomon, who took the helm of the theater’s board of directors at about the same time a group of former students sent an anonymous e-mail alleging inappropriate behavior by Clark. The organization filed for bankruptcy protection in November and announced it was closing its doors....."
What gall.
Time for lunch:
"Massachusetts families get a lifeline against hunger: $400 per child, whether they need it or not; US program will cover cost of school meals during the pandemic" by Malcolm Gay Globe Staff, May 13, 2020
For how long, and why is the government just throwing money around?
The families of roughly half the public school students in Massachusetts will soon receive payments totaling around $400 per child to help them cover the cost of meals on days when the schools were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, thanks to nearly $200 million in federal funding from Congress.
Yeah, thanks for the drop in the bucket while banks and corporations got trillions!
About 500,000 public school students are eligible, either because their families are low-income or they go to classes in one of hundreds of school districts statewide where average incomes are low. That would include the students at all 125 Boston public schools.
Starting this month, eligible families will receive the first of two lump sums totaling around $400 on a special Electronic Benefit Transfer card that will arrive in the mail for those who don’t already have one. The payments, which work out to $5.70 a day for school closures from mid-March to mid-June, add up to roughly $1,200 for a family with three school-age children.
Aaaah, CA$HLE$$ AID that will HOOK IN the FAMILY!
“It helps tremendously,” said Michelle Berlin, a 44-year-old mother of two from Northborough who recently received her first payment for her two children. “They eat constantly.”
Are they fat?
The first payments began arriving last week in the accounts of families who already receive EBT benefits — roughly 200,000 students. Administrators have been working with school districts to identify another 300,000 or so students who qualify either because of their family’s income or because they attend a school with a large population of economically disadvantaged students. Those students are scheduled to receive a separate card called a Pandemic-EBT or P-EBT card, in the mail by the end of the month.
Now I am going to VOMIT!
The Department of Transitional Assistance "has been pursuing all available tools and resources to support individuals and families impacted by this public health crisis,” said Amy Kershaw, commissioner of the Department of Transitional Assistance, in a statement to Globe.
The pandemic and resulting shutdown have redrawn the contours of American life with astonishing speed, devastating industries and accentuating longstanding inequalities, but the economic pain hasn’t been felt evenly.
The DTA said that each card comes with a unique account and pin number, so more affluent families can’t transfer or donate their benefit to people in greater need.....
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I'm not learning anything reading these article. It's all agenda-pushing public relations promotion for authority.
Related:
DCF cut off in-person visits in the pandemic. Parents are suing to get them back
That's the way to do it after being unable to see our beloved elderly, and they should be worried about their kids.
With the virus rapidly consuming daily life, DCF commissioner Linda Spears (center) told state workers on April 3 that for “the time being” the department would move the majority of parent-child visits to video conferences or phone calls (Globe Staff/file)
She recommends books about racism and inequality for kids if you can find them, and will you kids please stop chasing butterflies (looks like some Monarch mind control there)?
"Venture capital leader’s emotional plea about racism sparks donations to Hack.Diversity group; Jody Rose wrote of talking about the George Floyd killing with her two young children" by Anissa Gardizy Globe Correspondent, June 3, 2020
A Boston initiative to increase diversity in the local technology sector has received an outpouring of support following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the protests that have riven the country from coast to coast.
Believe it or not, Floyd tested positive for COVID-19!
I suspect it is the same people who write this $hit:
Hack.Diversity has received nearly $50,000 in donations from local venture capitalists and tech executives, in part after its Black cofounder posted an emotional message on social media about talking to her two young children about racism in America.
The cofounder, Jody Rose, is also president of the New England Venture Capital Association, and her Twitter post about “the talk” she and her husband had with their 9-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter struck a chord in the VC community.
She wrote that her son’s eyes filled with tears as he said, “Mommy, I don’t want to be killed because I am Black.”
“It pierced my heart, it pierced my husband’s heart, and I needed people to understand the impact of what was happening,” Rose said in an interview. “I needed people to know that I am someone they work with . . . and this is happening in my home.”
What an absolute mind-fuck of your children!
This woman is an UNFIT MOTHER!
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Jody A. Rose is cofounder of Hack.Diversity and president of the New England Venture Capital Association (Suzanne Kreiter)
Cui bono from all the race $hit anyway?
Hack.Diversity was formed in 2017 to address the lack of Black and Latinx representation in Boston’s innovation economy with a mentor-focused, internship-to-employment pipeline. For years, there has been pressure on technology companies and venture capitalists to work on diversifying the predominantly white, male workforce, from hiring to funding.
Rose said donations to the organization increased on Monday, with several venture capitalists and chief executives committing amounts ranging from $1,000 to $25,000.
One of them is Sarah Hodges, a partner at the Boston venture capital firm Pillar VC.....
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Have you received your Chump change government check yet?
