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Article lead: The overall risk of children becoming severely ill or dying from Covid is extremely low, a new analysis of Covid infection data confirms. As far
by jamses 5y ago
Article lead: The overall risk of children becoming severely ill or dying from Covid is extremely low, a new analysis of Covid infection data confirms.
As far as I can tell the linked report mentions nothing about severity of illness, only mortality.
Edit: Second study is linked to further down the page which addresses the severe illnesses, as ricardobeat points out.
- ricardobeat 5y agoLooks like they are reporting on multiple studies. There is a second paper that includes hospitalization rates linked under the “Hospital stays are rare” section.
- mikro2nd 5y agoAlso mentions nothing at all about the rapidly-rising Delta strain that appears to hit younger people much harder than other/earlier strains and in preference to older folk. Ugh. This virus is horrible.
- anoncake 5y agoAll strains affect younger people more than older ones. Because they aren't vaccinated.
- throwaway8689 5y agoI'd like to think that was accounted for in the analysis. We can compare children infected last year when other strains were dominant, with children infected this year in UK (likely to get the Delta variant).
- anoncake 5y agoI'd also like to think that no one publishes garbage studies, but there we are.