Considering that nearly 1/3 of kids tested there thus far have turned up positive for the coronavirus, it might not be such a great idea to reopen the schools just yet.
Alina Alonso, the health department director of Palm Beach County, reportedly told county commissioners on Tuesday that the long-term consequences of coronavirus in children are unknown. “They are seeing there is damage to the lungs in these asymptomatic children. ... We don’t know how that is going to manifest a year from now or two years from now,” Alonso told reporters. “Is that child going to have chronic pulmonary problems or not?”
In other news, it seems that healthy people with type O blood are less likely to get the disease in the first place; those with type A are more likely to contract it.
Of course, that doesn't mean that people with type O are off the hook.
And women in late-term pregnancy can encounter problems with their infant:
A pregnant woman infected with the novel coronavirus during her final trimester had the virus spread through the placenta to her unborn child, leading to neurological complications in the infant days after birth, according to a study published in Nature Communications on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Canada has announced that they'll keep the border with the USA closed until at least August 21, although transport of goods between the two countries will be permitted to continue. To date, according to new figures sent to CTVNews.ca by the CBSA, 10,329 U.S. citizens have been turned away from our shared border between March 22 and July 12. More than a quarter of them were barred from entering after revealing they were coming to Canada to sightsee, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Some Canadian long-haul would prefer that the border remain closed indefinitely, until or unless the US gets its collective act together:
Some Ontario truck drivers are speaking out about what they've been witnessing on their trips to the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic — and they're warning the Canadian government to keep the border closed to non-essential visitors.
"They're travelling down there. They don't wear masks," said Leanne Steeves, a long-haul truck driver from Barrie, Ont., referring to the attitude of many Americans to the pandemic. "It's like they don't care. Life is normal. Nothing's changed for them."
They don't say what the other reasons might be.
