https://thehill.com/changing-america/we ... tested-areState data indicates that out of 54,022 Florida children tested, 31.1 percent have returned positive results on average. This is higher than the statewide positivity rate, which reads in at about 11 percent.
Aside from the staggering figure indicating the transmission of the virus, health experts fear it can cause potential lifelong damage in children. Alina Alonso, the health department director of Palm Beach County, reportedly told county commissioners on Tuesday that the long-term consequences of coronavirus in children are unknown.
Alonso described X-rays that reveal damage caused to human lungs by the coronavirus, even for people without severe symptoms.
“They are seeing there is damage to the lungs in these asymptomatic children. ... We don’t know how that is going to manifest a year from now or two years from now,” Alonso told reporters. “Is that child going to have chronic pulmonary problems or not?”
Stock market bulls will reflexively tell you that any coronavirus will cause similar lung damage, so I don't expect reports like this to have any short term impact on the market.
This type of news will probably resurface after the bear market starts and at that time it will probably be stated with surety that children will suffer lifelong lung damage from this exposure, as well as damage to multiple organs. But that's to keep in the back of my mind for another day.