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Owing to the law of large numbers, we should still not be surprised to see articles like this:
Texas coronavirus cases include more than 80 infants

Stepping away from the knee-jerk reactions on all sides, that was 85 cases under age 1, which was just over 1% of all cases (under 8500 then, now 8800) in that county.  Infants under age 1 are about 1.14% of the US population.  If this 1% ratio is about the same elsewhere, that seems to suggest that infants are equally or perhaps even more vulnerable to getting an infection than other age groups.  (After all, how many under 1 babies are being exposed except to a caregiver?)

The first question is whether these infections are hospital-acquired or not.  If not, are they infections acquired from a parent?   If neither hospital acquired nor from a parent, then this may be a big issue.  (Someday, we may know what the long term effects are; we sure don't know them now.)

I'm not parenting an infant these days, so I don't know if parents are being advised how to deal with their infant should any of the caregivers get sick.  Anyone know?   Are parents being advised to try to keep their unmasked infants at home as much as feasible?  And advised on how to try to protect their baby from droplets/aerosols when they have to take them out?   Are parents advised to contact child-protective services for help when the parents are sick and may be unable to keep their infant from being exposed?

As for babies, NO MASKS.  DON'T LEAVE THEM IN THE CAR.

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Owing to the law of large numbers, we should still not be surprised to see articles like this:
Texas coronavirus cases include more than 80 infants

Stepping away from the knee-jerk reactions on all sides, that was 85 cases under age 1, which was just over 1% of all cases (under 8500 then, now 8800) in that county.  Infants under age 1 are about 1.14% of the US population.  If this 1% ratio is about the same elsewhere, that seems to suggest that infants are equally or perhaps even more vulnerable to getting an infection than other age groups.  (After all, how many under 1 babies are being exposed except to a caregiver?)

The first question is whether these infections are hospital-acquired or not.  If not, are they infections acquired from a parent?   If neither hospital acquired nor from a parent, then this may be a big issue.  (Someday, we may know what the long term effects are; we sure don't know them now.)

I'm not parenting an infant these days, so I don't know if parents are being advised how to deal with their infant should any of the caregivers get sick.  Anyone know?   Are parents being advised to try to keep their unmasked infants at home as much as feasible?  And advised on how to try to protect their baby from droplets/aerosols when they have to take them out?   Are parents advised to contact child-protective services for help when the parents are sick and may be unable to keep their infant from being exposed?

As for babies, NO MASKS.  DON'T LEAVE THEM IN THE CAR.