Israel is seeing a sharp rise in the number of children and teens getting #COVID19.

>50,000 children & teens have been diagnosed with coronavirus since the start of the month, many more than Israel saw in any month during the first or second waves. https://www.jpost.com/health-science/with-more-kids-sick-with-covid-can-israel-re-open-schools-656791

2) “We got a letter from the Israeli Association of Pediatrics that says they are very worried about the rate of disease in younger students,” Health Minister Yuli Edelstein told The Jerusalem Post. “This is something we did not witness in previous waves of corona.”

2) Although the exact strain in these Israel pediatric cases are unclear, there is another similar pediatric outbreak in a village in Italy . 10% of the town is infected and mostly children. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1357599530296958982

4) More on pediatric transmission. There is a phase shift that happens if cases are no longer low in a community. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1357204055110676480?s=21 https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1357204055110676480

5) more detailed thread on children’s transmission. Current children’s data is skewed because children are rarely / much less frequently tested than adults. https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1346362159446577154

6) here is what else is going on in the data for Covid. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1357566949404905472