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New Omicron variant fills up children's hospitals in the U.S.

New Omicron variant fills up children's hospitals in the U.S.Healthcare workers put on PPE on the COVID-19 ICU floor of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. (Allison Dinner/Bloomberg/Getty Images/CNN)

A five-fold increase in pediatric admissions in New York City this month. Close to double the numbers admitted in Washington, D.C. And nationwide, on average, pediatric hospitalizations in the U.S. are up 35 per cent in just the past week.

The highly transmissible Omicron variant is teaming up with the busy holiday season to infect more children across the United States than ever before, and children's hospitals are bracing for it to get even worse.

"I think we are going to see more numbers now than we have ever seen," Dr. Stanley Spinner, who is chief medical officer and vice president at Texas Children's Pediatrics & Urgent Care in Houston, told CNN.

MORE KIDS IN HOSPITALS

Across the country, pediatricians are bracing for a busy January.

"It's almost like you can see the train coming down the track and you're just hoping it doesn't go off the rails," Dr. Claudia Hoyen, director of pediatric infection control at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland told CNN.

"It's going to be a very interesting couple of weeks. We've just had all of these kids mixing together with everybody else during Christmas. We have one more holiday to get through with New Year's, and then we'll be sending everybody back to school," Hoyen said.

"Everybody is kind of waiting on the edge, wondering what we'll end up seeing."

And while the Delta variant infected more children than previous variants, Omicron is looking even worse, Spinner said.

"What's concerning on the (pediatric) side is that, unlike the adults -- where they're reporting for the number of adults getting infected relatively low numbers getting hospitalized -- what we're really seeing, we think, is an increasing number of kids being hospitalized," Spinner said.

"So that is a concern to us, especially with those that can't be vaccinated under 5 or those that are not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all that are eligible over 5. So it is a big concern."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/new-omicron-variant-fills-up-children-s-hospitals-in-the-u-s-1.5721007?utm_source=break.ma&utm_medium=break.ma

12,833 new COVID-19 cases in Quebec, increase from previous days

12,833 new COVID-19 cases in Quebec, staggering increase from previous days

This brings the total number of people infected to 559,270.

Since the start of the pandemic, there have only been two other days that the province recorded more than 10,000 cases: 10,246 on Dec. 22 and 10,713 on Dec. 23, according to the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ).

HOSPITALIZATIONS

Hospitalizations are up by 88, bringing the number of people in Quebec hospitals to 702.

Of those, 115 people are in intensive care; up by six.

Health officials note the risk of infection for people who are not vaccinated is 1.2 times that of someone who received two doses and the risk of hospitalization is 12.1 times someone who is fully vaccinated.

VACCINATION CAMPAIGN

Quebec's health care professionals administered 59,691 more vaccinations, for a total of 15,005,169 doses given in the province.

As of Dec. 27, a total of 7,260,432 Quebecers, or 89 per cent of the eligible population aged five and up, have received their first dose of a vaccine and 6,657,312 people, or 82 per cent, have received two.

Of those eligible for a third dose, 1,087,425 Quebecers, or 13 per cent, have received it.

VARIANT TRACKER

According to the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ), the number of Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant cases is now 3,306.

The numbers currently stand at 45,665 Alpha (B.1.1.7), 460 Bêta (B.1.351), 610 Gamma (P.1) and 32,804 Delta (B.1.167.2).

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/12-833-new-covid-19-cases-in-quebec-staggering-increase-from-previous-days-1.5721125?utm_source=break.ma&utm_medium=break.ma

Police, coroner investigating after inmate dies at Regina Reintegration Unit

Investigations are ongoing after a 59-year-old male inmate was found unresponsive and died in his room at the Regina Reintegration Unit on Dec. 23.

Corrections staff called EMS and initiated unsuccessful life-saving measures. The inmate was declared deceased at approximately 10:20 p.m. Thursday.

The unit, located in the city, is a reduced custody setting for inmates deemed a low-risk to the public. It offers programming to help inmates reintegrate into the community.

The Regina Police Service and the Saskatchewan Coroners Service are investigating. The Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety will also be conducting an internal investigation.

In Saskatchewan, a coroner’s inquest is mandatory when a death happens to a person held in custody. There is an exception if the person in custody died from natural causes and the death is not preventable.

The ministry said in a release Tuesday the death is not related to COVID-19 and the man’s next of kin have been notified.

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'We still feel the guilt:' Tyler Summitt, son of legendary coach, tries to move on from scandal

Tyler Summitt is a basketball coach and the son of legendary women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt.

On Thursday, five years after Tyler Summitt resigned in disgrace as head coach of the women’s basketball team at Louisiana Tech, he will be with the woman at the center of the scandal that brought him down.

Summitt was having an extramarital affair with the team’s starting point guard, Brooklyn Pumroy. Now they are married and live with their 2-year-old son, Breck, on the banks of Choctaw Lake in London, Ohio.

“I think we really just try to keep praying for forgiveness," Summitt told USA TODAY Sports. “We still feel the guilt."

Summitt, 30, got divorced from his first wife after the scandal broke in 2016. It was public humiliation for the only child of Pat Summitt, arguably the greatest coach in women’s college basketball history.

At Tennessee, Pat Summitt won eight national championships, with Tyler Summitt attending most of those title games. He also helped oversee his mother’s medical care after she was diagnosed in 2011 early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, which forced her to retire at 59.

She died about two months after Summitt resigned at Louisiana Tech.

“That year is just still a blur for me,’’ Summitt said. “I saw more than one therapist just to process what was going on, whether it was Louisiana Tech or Mom passing away.

“Even now I look back and there’s still emotions. So I don’t know if I’ve fully processed it.’’

He married Pumroy in 2018, the same year their son was born. Five years after his resignation, Summitt said, they will spend part of the evening as they have for the past few years.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/still-feel-guilt-tyler-summitt-110144242.html