Video appeared Monday of police trying to arrest an 8-year-old boy at his elementary school in Florida during a 2018 arrest. The newly released bodycam footage shows two Key West cops telling the crying boy that he is ‘going to jail’. One of the officers put the child’s hands up …
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A family in Georgia said cops shot at a car full of black children, one as young as 9, according to a report. The incident unfolded in Waycross, Ga., When five teens, ages 9 to 16, were at the home of a Walmart at 8 a.m. on Saturday and a …
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Nearly 600 children were admitted to U.S. hospitals with a rare inflammatory syndrome associated with the new coronavirus over four months during the end of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report on Friday. Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) is a rare but serious …
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that “young people are almost immune” to Covid-19, a statement made on the same day that the head of the World Health Organization emphasized that children can become infected with the coronavirus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a press conference in Geneva on …
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Children under the age of five have 10 to 100 times higher levels of coronavirus genetic material in the nose compared to older children and adults, a study at JAMA Pediatrics said Thursday. Its authors wrote that this meant that young children could be major drivers of Covid-19 transmission within …
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