COVID Hospitalizations For Children Is At A Record Level

While ignoring the COVID pandemic, Donald Trump told Americans that young people, especially children, didn't get the disease. That was a lie, but it seems to be a lie that is still being put forward by right-wing Republican politicians.

As school is starting across the country, many schools want to mandate that their students (and teachers) wear a mask. That is a reasonable action. Consider the chart above. It shows that not only can children get sick with COVID, but many require hospitalization -- and those child hospitalizations have reached a record level nationwide.

But in spite of the virus raging across the country, many red-state governors are banning mask requirements in schools (or anywhere else). This is especially true of Gov. Abbott in Texas and Gov. DeSatis in Florida. Both have issued edicts that say schools cannot have a mask mandate.

They did this in spite of the fact that their own states are experiencing record child hospitalizations due to the Coronavirus (especially the Delta variant). They do this to please their extremist base. Evidently, playing politics is more important to them that saving the lives of children in their states.