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Unfortunately there is increasingly more data that shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not benign in children. For example this rather early analysis from 2020 included m

Unfortunately there is increasingly more data that shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not benign in children. For example this rather early analysis from 2020 included more than 2,000 children who got infected. 10.6% of infants under 1 year of age had severe or critical symptoms. All of these infants survived but a small number of infants in the United States have died following diagnosis with COVID-19 even then before Delta (or even Lambda and other variants). https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2020/03/16/peds.2020-0702.full.pdf https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/ea... I have rolled too many d10 not to worry a lot about this.

oxymoran 5y ago
People under the age of 1 is not even close to equaling “kids”. Come on.
- musha68k 5y ago
  Your point being what exactly? Apart from more severe outcomes for babies than what we thought there are children that increasingly have to be treated for pneumonia at hospitals. Also long covid is on the rise. This has been widely reported recently. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/long-covid-afflicts-kids-too-heres-what-we-know-so-far https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/long-covi... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/health/coronavirus-children-delta.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/heal...
  - musha68k 5y ago
    Also for latest information, lots of interesting questions in current TWiV Q&A surrounding this topic as well: https://youtu.be/_MvRUtbUEqU https://youtu.be/_MvRUtbUEqU