![]() ![]() He says he knows the virus is real – because he lost his mother to Covid-19 last May, on Mother’s Day. Urbina says his 7-year-old daughter, who attends second grade, doesn’t like wearing a mask. “It’s a personal choice,” Jaime Urbina told CNN. Last Wednesday, Versalovic told CNN his hospital had seen more than 65 pediatric patients in the previous week, a record number.Īnd children were showing up sicker than previously seen.ĭespite the record numbers, CNN observed some parents walking their children to a Humble ISD school last week without a mask and asked if their kids would be wearing masks in the classroom. James Versalovic, interim pediatrician in chief at Texas Children’s Hospital, told CNN Wednesday. “Over the past week we reached a peak in terms of the number of children hospitalized in a 24-hour period with Covid-19 at Texas Children’s,” Dr. Medical experts in the Houston area, which is where Humble ISD is located, are sounding the alarm about the record number of children contracting the coronavirus and requiring hospitalization. Since the start of the school year, more than 1,800 Humble ISD students and 350 staff have tested positive for Covid-19, according to the district’s dashboard.Īnd Covid-19 cases among Texas public school students have nearly tripled in a week, from August 15-22, according to the latest state data available, which shows more than 20,000 Texas students have tested positive for the coronavirus since the start of the school year. “How can you call yourself a community when you don’t care, whether or not, the people in the community live or die?” “Nobody in the school community cares about whether she is safe,” Woodard said, still shaking. And Harris County authorities have not contacted them about the lack of compliance with the county order. Greg Abbott’s pandemic-related executive order banning school mask mandates. ![]() ![]() Instead, school officials told CNN, the district is following Texas Gov. Courtesy Michelle Woodardīut at Cara’s school, in the Humble Independent School District in Texas, masks are optional, which violates a local mask mandate for all public schools and daycare centers issued by Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo earlier this month. Cara Woodard was hospitalized in February 2020 due to a respiratory illness, her mother Michelle says. ![]()
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