Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine offer almost no protection against coronavirus infection in kids ages 5 to 11, according to new data posted online — a finding that may have consequences for parents and their vaccinated children.
Researchers from the New York State Department of Health found that the vaccine’s effectiveness dropped to 12 percent from 68 percent in the age group in December and January, when the omicron variant of the coronavirus began circulating widely in the United States.
Read more at:Pfizer Covid vaccine may not protect against infection in kids
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Showing posts with label Children. Show all posts
2/28/22
2/20/22
Afghanistan crisis: Pictures show children's fight for survival six months since Taliban takeover
Six months since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a humanitarian crisis has developed that has devastated the lives of children across the country, say Save the Children.
The NGO says its newly released pictures tell the story of children fighting for survival, as families make impossible decisions about which child they can afford to feed and which children need to work on the streets to put food on the table. The pictures -- by photographer Jim Huylebroek -- form part of a series called Children on the Edge of Life and give a glimpse into Afghanistan’s worst food crisis since records began. Almost five million children stand on the brink of starvation due to the devastation caused by the conflict and subsequent economic collapse in Afghanistan, says the NGO. The situation has been made even worse by drought.
Read more at: Afghanistan crisis: Pictures show children's fight for survival six months since Taliban takeover | Euronews
The NGO says its newly released pictures tell the story of children fighting for survival, as families make impossible decisions about which child they can afford to feed and which children need to work on the streets to put food on the table. The pictures -- by photographer Jim Huylebroek -- form part of a series called Children on the Edge of Life and give a glimpse into Afghanistan’s worst food crisis since records began. Almost five million children stand on the brink of starvation due to the devastation caused by the conflict and subsequent economic collapse in Afghanistan, says the NGO. The situation has been made even worse by drought.
Read more at: Afghanistan crisis: Pictures show children's fight for survival six months since Taliban takeover | Euronews
11/26/21
The Netherlands: Here's what lessons can be learned from parenting in the Netherlands - by Vicky McKeever
Children in the Netherlands are among the happiest in the world, research has suggested, and experts say that there could be a number of reasons why this is the case.
A UNICEF report published last year found that children in the Netherlands had the highest sense of wellbeing. The United Nations children’s agency analyzed data across 41 high-income countries, ranking the countries according to how they scored on children’s mental wellbeing, physical health, and the development of both academic and social skills.
Read more at: Here's what lessons can be learned from parenting in the Netherlands
A UNICEF report published last year found that children in the Netherlands had the highest sense of wellbeing. The United Nations children’s agency analyzed data across 41 high-income countries, ranking the countries according to how they scored on children’s mental wellbeing, physical health, and the development of both academic and social skills.
Read more at: Here's what lessons can be learned from parenting in the Netherlands
11/8/21
USA: CDC approves Pfizer's COVID vaccine for kids 5 to 11 in the U.S.
U.S. health officials on Tuesday gave final approval to Pfizer's kid-sized COVID-19 shot, a milestone that opens a major expansion of the nation's vaccination campaign to children as young as five.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) already authorized the shots for children ages five to 11 — doses just one-third of the amount given to teens and adults. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) formally recommends who should receive FDA-cleared vaccines.
The announcement by CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky came only hours after an advisory panel unanimously decided Pfizer's shots should be opened to the 28 million youngsters in that age group.
Read more at: CDC approves Pfizer's COVID vaccine for kids 5 to 11 in the U.S. | CBC News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) already authorized the shots for children ages five to 11 — doses just one-third of the amount given to teens and adults. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) formally recommends who should receive FDA-cleared vaccines.
The announcement by CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky came only hours after an advisory panel unanimously decided Pfizer's shots should be opened to the 28 million youngsters in that age group.
Read more at: CDC approves Pfizer's COVID vaccine for kids 5 to 11 in the U.S. | CBC News
9/3/21
Coronavirus Cases: U.S. child COVID-19 cases continue to rise as kids return to school
Children represented over 20 percent of weekly COVID-19 cases in the United States by the end of August, according to a report by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.
A total of 203,962 child COVID-19 cases were reported in the week from Aug. 19 to Aug. 26, accounting for 22.4 percent of the weekly reported cases in the country, said the report.
Over two weeks from Aug. 12 to Aug. 26, there was a 9 percent increase in the cumulated number of child COVID-19 cases, it said.
Read more at: U.S. child COVID-19 cases continue to rise as kids return to school - Xinhua
A total of 203,962 child COVID-19 cases were reported in the week from Aug. 19 to Aug. 26, accounting for 22.4 percent of the weekly reported cases in the country, said the report.
Over two weeks from Aug. 12 to Aug. 26, there was a 9 percent increase in the cumulated number of child COVID-19 cases, it said.
Read more at: U.S. child COVID-19 cases continue to rise as kids return to school - Xinhua
8/29/21
USA: COVID and children: Doctors worry about disparities in kids of color
On Thursday, Ana Amira Rivera celebrated her first birthday. But earlier this month, her mom worried her baby girl wouldn’t make it.
Ava woke up one night in early August with a fever and seizures. Estefani Lopez rushed her to the emergency room, where her daughter stopped breathing, going limp in her arms. The otherwise health baby was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Read more at: COVID and children: Doctors worry about disparities in kids of color
Ava woke up one night in early August with a fever and seizures. Estefani Lopez rushed her to the emergency room, where her daughter stopped breathing, going limp in her arms. The otherwise health baby was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Read more at: COVID and children: Doctors worry about disparities in kids of color
12/6/20
The Netherlands: Should the Dutch ‘Black Pete’ tradition be abolished?
Many children in the Netherlands have grown up with the image of Black Pete, a helper for St Nicholas, an equivalent of Santa Claus.
The character is highly controversial, as the figure is usually portrayed by a white person wearing blackface makeup with exaggerated lips and an afro wig
Note EU-Digest: Indeed quite controversial. This has been a centuries old tradional Childrens celebration, before it became a racial issue. Amazing that the people promoting this as a racial issue have no qualms with the flagrant human rights violations of Saudi Arabia and many other countries around the world?
Read more at: Should the Dutch ‘Black Pete’ tradition be abolished? | Netherlands | Al Jazeera
The character is highly controversial, as the figure is usually portrayed by a white person wearing blackface makeup with exaggerated lips and an afro wig
Note EU-Digest: Indeed quite controversial. This has been a centuries old tradional Childrens celebration, before it became a racial issue. Amazing that the people promoting this as a racial issue have no qualms with the flagrant human rights violations of Saudi Arabia and many other countries around the world?
Read more at: Should the Dutch ‘Black Pete’ tradition be abolished? | Netherlands | Al Jazeera
11/11/20
Tech Industry: Industry Insiders Don’t Use Their Products Like We Do. That Should Worry Us - by Eleanor Cummins
Apple founder Steve Jobs didn't let his kids use the iPad, or really any product their dad invented, according to a 2014 report from Nick Bilton in The New York Times.
"They haven't used it," Jobs told Bilton. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home." Every night, the family had a phone-free dinner together, according to Walter Isaacson, author of the definitive biography Steve Jobs. "The kids did not seem addicted at all to devices," Isaacson told Bilton.
Read more at: Industry Insiders Don’t Use Their Products Like We Do. That Should Worry Us.
"They haven't used it," Jobs told Bilton. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home." Every night, the family had a phone-free dinner together, according to Walter Isaacson, author of the definitive biography Steve Jobs. "The kids did not seem addicted at all to devices," Isaacson told Bilton.
Read more at: Industry Insiders Don’t Use Their Products Like We Do. That Should Worry Us.
11/23/19
Netherlands-Court decission: Netherlands does not have to help kids from ISIS parents trapped in Syria
The Netherlands will not have to retrieve children of Dutch citizens awaiting their fates in Syrian detention and displacement camps, the kids of Dutch women who left the Netherlands to enter conflict zones in Syria and Iraq. The Appellate Court in The Hague overturned a lower court's ten-day old order on an emergency appeal filed on behalf of the Dutch government.
Read more at:
https://nltimes.nl/2019/11/22/netherlands-help-kids-trapped-syria-appellate-court
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https://nltimes.nl/2019/11/22/netherlands-help-kids-trapped-syria-appellate-court
11/11/19
The Netherlands: Court orders Netherlands to bring back kids from Dutch ISIS mothers, but not mothers, stuck in Syria
A court in Den Haag ordered the Netherlands to quickly bring 56 children of Dutch parents back to the country from Syrian detention and displacement camps. The case was filed on behalf of 23 mothers living in the camps. In its verdict, the court noted that "the children have not chosen to go to Syria or to stay in Syria. They are sitting there now because their parents have been involved in ISIS.
Read more at:Court orders Netherlands to bring back kids, but not mothers, stuck in Syria | NL Times:
Read more at:Court orders Netherlands to bring back kids, but not mothers, stuck in Syria | NL Times:
12/4/18
Social Media: Marc Benioff on privacy, regulation, and tech's ethical dilemma
Benioff certainly makes a good point. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other high
tech social media services need to be regulated in America, the same way as
cigarettes are, because they are addictive, specially on the minds of
young people.
Read more and watch video: Marc Benioff on privacy, regulation, and tech's ethical dilemma | Smart Change: Personal Finance | madison.com
Read more and watch video: Marc Benioff on privacy, regulation, and tech's ethical dilemma | Smart Change: Personal Finance | madison.com
2/14/18
USA: NRA Strikes again: Number of fatalities' after shooting at Parkland, Florida, high school, senator says - by Elizabeth Chuck and Corky Siemaszko
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| Lets Make America Great Again By Closing Down The NRA |
The suspect, believed to be about 18 years old, is a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and there are at least 20 victims, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said.
It was not immediately clear how many of those victims were injured and how many died, but Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., citing Broward County officials, told NBC News that there were "a number of fatalities."
Note EU-Digest: As of February this year there have already been 6 school shootings, and 168 shootings involving schools since the Sandy Hook Dec. 14, 2012 school massacre. Yes indeed America is first allright, also in gun violence.
Read more: 'Number of fatalities' after shooting at Parkland, Florida, high school, senator says - NBC News
9/22/17
USA: Guns kill nearly 1,300 US children each year, study says
A US study based on data from 2012 to 2014 suggests that, on average, 5,790
children in the United States receive medical treatment in an emergency
room each year for a gun-related injury. About 21% of those injuries
are unintentional.
From 2012 to 2014, on average, 1,297 children died annually from a gun-related injury in the US, according to the study, published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday.
The study also revealed which states in the US saw most of those deaths among children and which children may be most at risk for a gun-related injury.
“When you start putting numbers like that to real lives, real people every day who are injured by firearms … it confirms a statistic we already know a lot about,” said Weiser, who was not involved in the study.
Doctors also emphasize that there are methods available to safely secure and store firearms, away from children, and they recommend that parents employ those methods when keeping guns in the home.
Note EU-Digest: Guns are cheaper to buy in the US than medical services or some pharmaceutical drugs.
Read more: Guns kill nearly 1,300 US children each year, study says | WQAD.com
From 2012 to 2014, on average, 1,297 children died annually from a gun-related injury in the US, according to the study, published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday.
The study also revealed which states in the US saw most of those deaths among children and which children may be most at risk for a gun-related injury.
“When you start putting numbers like that to real lives, real people every day who are injured by firearms … it confirms a statistic we already know a lot about,” said Weiser, who was not involved in the study.
Doctors also emphasize that there are methods available to safely secure and store firearms, away from children, and they recommend that parents employ those methods when keeping guns in the home.
Note EU-Digest: Guns are cheaper to buy in the US than medical services or some pharmaceutical drugs.
Read more: Guns kill nearly 1,300 US children each year, study says | WQAD.com
4/11/17
EU: Going Dutch? What Americans can learn from how children are raised in the Netherlands - by Amy Perrette
Data backs up Acosta's impression. In the latest UNICEF study ranking 29 of the world's richest industrialized countries according to child well-being, Dutch children come out on top. America ranks 26th, just above Lithuania and Latvia.
Acosta and her British friend, Michele Hutchison (also an expat married to a Dutch man), decided to document the differences they saw between their own pressurized childhoods and the Dutch parenting style, and explain what it is about the Dutch approach that is producing such contented kids. The result is their book, "The Happiest Kids in the World: How Dutch Parents Help Their Kids (and Themselves) by Doing Less."
“Scrap the idea of ‘quality time,’ as American and British parents know it,” says Hutchison. “That is too stressful and puts too much pressure on planning and finances.”
Instead, Dutch parents enjoy spending lots of relaxed time together at family meals, or having the children play nearby while the parent is attending to his or her own interests and projects.
Part of why Dutch parents are able to have that low-key family time is because they allow their children a high degree of independence, even allowing them to climb trees unsupervised and bike alone at a young age.
“It isn’t that the Dutch aren’t aware of risk,” Acosta says. “They just keep the risk in perspective.”
Dutch kids are not taught to read and write until about age 7 and don’t get regular homework until their early teenage years, yet they score at the top of educational achievement and participation in the same UNICEF study.
Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, says that low-stress start to schooling makes good sense.
“A huge number of studies show that children's motivation to do things — to be engaged, to learn about their world — goes up when they make choices about what to do,” she says.
Stressing less and relaxing more as the recipe for happy children? It might be time we all “go Dutch.”
Read more: Going Dutch? What Americans can learn from how children are raised in the Netherlands - TODAY.com
9/7/16
REFUGEES : UNICEF Report Finds Half of All Refugees Are Now Children - by Alexander Smith
Children now make up nearly half of the world's refugee population,
according to a new report from the United Nations children agency.
The report published Wednesday comes not long after the image of a bloodied 5-year-old named Omran Daqneesh refocused international attention on the conflict in Syria, which has created millions of refugees.
"We must not forget that each child, each picture, represents many millions of children in danger at home — and many millions of children who have left their homes," the UNICEF report noted.
Read more: UNICEF Report Finds Half of All Refugees Are Now Children - NBC News
The report published Wednesday comes not long after the image of a bloodied 5-year-old named Omran Daqneesh refocused international attention on the conflict in Syria, which has created millions of refugees.
"We must not forget that each child, each picture, represents many millions of children in danger at home — and many millions of children who have left their homes," the UNICEF report noted.
Read more: UNICEF Report Finds Half of All Refugees Are Now Children - NBC News
2/19/16
US firearms industry marketing guns to children says report from Violence Policy Center
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| NRA strikes again: marketing gun sales tochildren |
The Violence Policy Center, which aims to stop gun violence, said in its report that gun manufacturers are marketing to the youngest consumers because their primary market -- white men -- is aging.
"The
firearms industry has set its sights on America's children. Much like
the tobacco industry's search for replacement smokers, the gun industry
is seeking replacement shooters," the group said in a statement.
"Along with the hope of increased gun sales, a corollary goal of this effort is the creation of the next generation of pro-gun advocates for future political battles."
Examples of "aggressive efforts" to market to children include rifles made with plastic parts so they are easier to handle, with less weight and recoil, the report said. Some manufacturers sell firearms in a variety of kid-friendly bright colors, including pink for girls.
The report also pointed out that the firearms industry and its lobby want parents to let their children "access guns at the earliest possible age."
The National Rifle Association, the main gun lobby in the US, previously had a website for its junior members, divided into "Under 8" and "8 and Up," the Violence Policy Center said.
Now called "NRA Family," the website's content includes a 2014 article reviewing the Thompson/Center HotShot youth rifle, calling it "a tiny gun intended for the very youngest shooters -- the ultimate first gun."
The article cited the manufacturer as saying the rifle is targeted to kids aged six to 12.
Gun violence is rife in the US, where a third of children live in a household with at least one weapon, according to the group Everytown for Gun Safety. Its statistics show that seven children and teens are killed with guns in the US on an average day.
Read more: Flash - US firearms industry marketing to children: report - France 24
12/5/14
Christmas: The Toys That Send Kids to the Emergency Room - by Brian Resnick
The Razor was the first hit toy of the new millennium. In 2000, Razor sold
5 million scooters in just six months, and they were everywhere. On
long-shadowed schoolyard evenings, all the cool kids would take turns on
the scooters, testing out tricks and making skid marks on the pavement.
Land a hella tight ollie, and you were a playground hero.
Here's a statistic to pop that nostalgia bubble: Razor scooters and other "ride-on" toys sent 110,000 kids to the hospital in 2001, according to a new report in the journal Clinical Pediatrics. In 1999, that number was 25,000—a jump as extreme as any trick you could land on a Razor.
According to the paper—a comprehensive crunch of 20 years of hospital data—149,000 kids go to the hospital every year for toy-related injuries. "On average in 2011," the paper states, "a child received treatment in a U.S. ED [Emergency Department] for a toy-related injury every three minutes."
By far, the most dangerous toy category in the analysis were ride-on toys like scooters, wagons, and electric-powered mini-cars (e.g., one of these bad boys you always coveted).
The Toys That Send Kids to the Emergency Room - The Atlantic
Here's a statistic to pop that nostalgia bubble: Razor scooters and other "ride-on" toys sent 110,000 kids to the hospital in 2001, according to a new report in the journal Clinical Pediatrics. In 1999, that number was 25,000—a jump as extreme as any trick you could land on a Razor.
According to the paper—a comprehensive crunch of 20 years of hospital data—149,000 kids go to the hospital every year for toy-related injuries. "On average in 2011," the paper states, "a child received treatment in a U.S. ED [Emergency Department] for a toy-related injury every three minutes."
By far, the most dangerous toy category in the analysis were ride-on toys like scooters, wagons, and electric-powered mini-cars (e.g., one of these bad boys you always coveted).
The Toys That Send Kids to the Emergency Room - The Atlantic
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