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My kids and I don't enjoy being in a park, indoor garden, or play space with teeming mobs of largely unsupervised young children.Preschool teachers physically attacked while walking with infants, toddlers on Washington, DC, street, councilmember says
A pair of preschool teachers were physically attacked Monday while walking with infants and toddlers on a street in Washington, D.C., WTTG-TV reported, citing a councilmember.
What are the details?
Councilmember Zachary Parker noted on X that the teachers from the Petit Scholars school in the Bloomingdale neighborhood were walking with three classes of infants and toddlers outside the school when the physical attack occurred:
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Parker said in a subsequent post that a man approached asking for money, and when he was denied, he attacked. Parker added that one teacher suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries and is recovering at a nearby hospital and that a second teacher who tried to help also was injured but isn't hospitalized. Parker added that good Samaritans jumped in and helped stop the attack.
What happened next?
Parker added in another post that the attacker — who's well-known in the community — was arrested and that it's believed he may have been going through a mental health crisis. Parker said support services for him also are being looked at and that nearby schools have been informed about the attack.
He also noted that police are being approached to provide an escort for Petit Scholars groups for their daily walks and trips to a nearby playground.
"Neighbors, staff, parents, and students deserve to feel safe in our communities," the councilmember noted. "The devastation of a child witnessing their teacher [being] attacked is unthinkable. We must keep working to make our communities healthy, whole, and safe."
Anything else?
WTTG reported that the attack occurred on the same day as D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's announcement of a new anti-crime initiative due to rising crime in the nation's capital; police said violent crime is up 41% in the district this year compared to this time last year.
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Texas dad shoots two teens as they try to enter his family's car — which is carrying two infants in rear seat
A Texas dad shot two teenagers who tried to enter his family's car in northwest Harris County while two infants were in the rear seat, KTRK-TV reported.
What are the details?
Investigators said the family had just pulled up to their home in the 6800 block of Feather Creek Drive when a pair of 16-year-old males tried to enter the car through the rear doors, deputies told the station.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted that the suspects opened one of the vehicle's rear doors.
But the dad fired multiple times at the suspects from inside the car while his wife drove away, KTRK said.
Security video from a nearby home recorded the incident, the station said, adding that one teen suspect was seen running away while the other was on the ground.
Everything unfolded just after midnight Monday, KHOU-TV reported.
Deputies said the suspects sustained gunshot wounds and were taken to a hospital in private vehicles, KTRK reported.
Gonzalez told the station that both teen suspects are stable and in fair condition.
KTRK said it spoke with the family, who said they were doing OK but didn't want to go on camera.
Video from the scene shows a bullet hole in the car's side, stemming from the shot the father took through his car's back window.
\u201cLast night, just after midnight, @HCSOTexas units responded to the 6800 blk of Feather Creek Dr in reference to a shooting. Preliminary: an adult male, his wife, and two infants arrived home. Two males, walked up to their SUV, and opened a rear door where their 1-yr-old was 1/3\u201d— Ed Gonzalez (@Ed Gonzalez) 1657545423
Investigators spent time looking for video and additional evidence, KTRK said.
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Dr. Fauci says 'hopefully' COVID-19 vaccine will be approved for infants, young children by spring 2022
Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed hope this week that COVID-19 vaccinations will soon be approved for infants, toddlers, and young children.
What did Fauci say?
Although it has been just weeks since the government approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 12, Fauci said that "hopefully" the vaccine is approved for infants and young children by next spring.
"Hopefully within a reasonably short period of time, likely the beginning of next year in 2022, in the first quarter of 2022, it will be available to them," Fauci told Business Insider.
"Can't guarantee it— you've got to do the clinical trial," he added.
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Pfizer seems to be the likely frontrunner in the race to vaccinate babies and toddlers, because its pediatric vaccine trials are already underway. (Moderna and Johnson & Johnson are also planning to trial their COVID-19 vaccines in young kids, but Moderna is still in the recruitment phase for children in the 6 month to 6 year cohort, while J&J has had some regulatory delays, and is still testing its vaccine in 12-17 year olds.)
Pfizer-BioNTech said in September that results from their clinical trials for "children 2-5 years of age and children 6 months to 2 years of age" are expected as soon as the fourth quarter of this year.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that 605 people under age 17 in the U.S. have died from COVID-19. However, the actual number could be lower because that figure contains confirmed and "presumed" COVID cases.
It's not clear, then, how many Americans will rush to inject their infants and young children with the COVID-19 vaccine considering so few young Americans have died from the virus. CDC data show, in fact, that more than 700,000 of the 765,000 COVID deaths in the U.S. have come from people aged 50 and older.
Anything else?
Fauci seemingly tried to change the definition of fully vaccinated this week to include a booster shot.
"I happen to believe as an immunologist and infectious disease person that a third-shot boost for an mRNA [vaccine]...should be part of the actual standard regimen, where a booster isn't a luxury," Fauci said this week, the New York Post reported.
"A booster isn't an add-on and a booster is part of what the original regimen should be. So that when we look back on this, we're going to see that boosters are essential for an optimal vaccine regimen," he added.
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