08/07/20
Theo independen:Seven year old dies of coronavirus in Georgia, a day after Trump said children are ‘almost immune’
Bé gái 9 tuổi chết vì Coronavirus ở FL
1 bé trai 7 tuổi qua đời vì coronavirus 1 ngày sau khi Trump phán trẻ em hầu hết miễn dịch
Update: trong tuần này cũng có 1 bé gái 6 tuổi từ Tennesse và 1 bé trai cũng đồng tuổi từ Nebraska qua đời vì đại dịch. Mọi người cẩn thận. Thường xuyên rửa tay sạch sẽ, đeo khẩu trang và giữ khoảng cách.
Covid: Seven year old dies of coronavirus in Georgia, a day after Trump said children are ‘almost immune’
‘This is a disease everyone should take seriously,’ says director of the Coastal Health Department
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A seven-year-old boy from Georgia with no underlying health conditions became the youngest person in the state to die from coronavirus, a day after president Donald Trump said children are “almost immune from the disease”.
The Georgia Department of Public Health announced on Thursday that the seven-year-old from Savannah, Georgia, had died after suffering a seizure in response to the virus, but did not release the date of the unnamed child’s death.
In a statement to Fox 5 in Atlanta, Dr Lawton Davis, director of the Coastal Health Department, said that “every Covid-19 death we report is tragic, but to lose someone so young is especially heart-breaking.”
He added: “We know that older individuals and those with underlying conditions are at higher risk of complications, but this is a disease everyone should take seriously.”
A six-year-old girl from Tennessee and a six-year-old boy from Nebraska also died from coronavirus this week. The previous youngest person to die in Georgia from Covid-19 was a 17-year-old, according to Fox News.
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The child’s death came a day after president Trump falsely claimed that children are “almost immune” to the disease when he called in and spoke to the hosts of Fox & Friends.
Mr Trump said on Wednesday morning that “schools should be open. If you look at children — I would almost say definitely — they are almost immune from this disease.”
He added: “They’ve got stronger, hard to believe, I don’t know how you feel about it, but they’ve got much stronger immune systems than we do somehow for this. And they don’t have a problem, they just don’t have a problem.”
After the president posted a clip of the comments on his Facebook page, it was taken down by the social media site, who said it contained “false claims”.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said: “This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from Covid-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful Covid misinformation.”
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