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How much risk do you think your children have? I believe it's the same as the flu according to recent stats.

by 650 5y ago

scruple 5y ago
> How much risk do you think your children have? Very little, probably, but I don't think anyone can say. I've read the same statistics as you. But our understanding is immature, no? For example, we're seeing now that young people, who were infected with COVID-19 but who had extremely mild cases / symptoms, are now experiencing / developing so-called long COVID. Here's a piece in the NY Times from yesterday [0] and similarly in Yahoo! News (not behind the paywall) [1] . In addition, pediatric cases of COVID-19 are currently on the rise. Here's an excerpt: > An April study by the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics found that 9.8% of 2-11-year-olds and 13% of 12-16-year-olds infected with the coronavirus reported continuing symptoms five weeks later. After 12 weeks, rates remained significant: 7.4% in the younger group and 8.2% in the older group. That sounds much worse than the flu: > In another U.K. study, 4.4% of 1,734 children had symptoms more than four weeks post-COVID, over four times as high as the percentage with symptoms four weeks after non-COVID illnesses like flu. So, this aspect of the pandemic actually is much worse than the flu. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/08/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine#some-children-who-had-mild-covid-are-facing-confounding-long-term-symptoms https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/08/world/covid-delta-va... [1]: https://news.yahoo.com/really-scary-kids-struggle-long-115416939.html https://news.yahoo.com/really-scary-kids-struggle-long-11541... edit/ Typos and words.
- horrified 5y ago
  NYT is paywalled, but all articles about it that I have read are a mix of scary anecdotes without statistics ("Johnny was unable to remember his biology lessons" - how often does that happen" and statistics about "x% experience 'such' ongoing symptoms", where "such" is sneakily a mix of severe and non severe symptoms that can be lumped together under "long covid" to make it sound scarier. Not saying there is no risk, but I wish there were some clearer statistics about it. There should be enough data by now. I personally think that if there really was a significant risk for kids, it would have been clearly communicated by now.
  - scruple 5y ago
    > I personally think that if there really was a significant risk for kids, it would have been clearly communicated by now. I sure don't have a high degree of trust in our officials to communicate clearly. Not after the last 19 months.
    - horrified 5y ago
      They seemed very keen to communicate high risk things, though.

How much risk do you think your children have? I believe it's the same as the flu according to recent stats.

by 650 5y ago

How much risk do you think your children have? I believe it's the same as the flu according to recent stats.

> How much risk do you think your children have? Very little, probably, but I don't think anyone can say. I've read the same statistics as you. But our understanding is immature, no? For example, we're seeing now that young people, who were infected with COVID-19 but who had extremely mild cases / symptoms, are now experiencing / developing so-called long COVID. Here's a piece in the NY Times from yesterday [0] and similarly in Yahoo! News (not behind the paywall) [1] . In addition, pediatric cases of COVID-19 are currently on the rise. Here's an excerpt: > An April study by the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics found that 9.8% of 2-11-year-olds and 13% of 12-16-year-olds infected with the coronavirus reported continuing symptoms five weeks later. After 12 weeks, rates remained significant: 7.4% in the younger group and 8.2% in the older group. That sounds much worse than the flu: > In another U.K. study, 4.4% of 1,734 children had symptoms more than four weeks post-COVID, over four times as high as the percentage with symptoms four weeks after non-COVID illnesses like flu. So, this aspect of the pandemic actually is much worse than the flu. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/08/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine#some-children-who-had-mild-covid-are-facing-confounding-long-term-symptoms https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/08/world/covid-delta-va... [1]: https://news.yahoo.com/really-scary-kids-struggle-long-115416939.html https://news.yahoo.com/really-scary-kids-struggle-long-11541... edit/ Typos and words.

horrified 5y ago
NYT is paywalled, but all articles about it that I have read are a mix of scary anecdotes without statistics ("Johnny was unable to remember his biology lessons" - how often does that happen" and statistics about "x% experience 'such' ongoing symptoms", where "such" is sneakily a mix of severe and non severe symptoms that can be lumped together under "long covid" to make it sound scarier. Not saying there is no risk, but I wish there were some clearer statistics about it. There should be enough data by now. I personally think that if there really was a significant risk for kids, it would have been clearly communicated by now.
- scruple 5y ago
  > I personally think that if there really was a significant risk for kids, it would have been clearly communicated by now. I sure don't have a high degree of trust in our officials to communicate clearly. Not after the last 19 months.
  - horrified 5y ago
    They seemed very keen to communicate high risk things, though.