This is not accurate. Covid IFR for children < 12 was near 0 in 2020 which is far less risky than flu for that group. https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk

This is not accurate. Covid IFR for children < 12 was near 0 in 2020 which is far less risky than flu for that group. https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid > Our analysis finds a exponential relationship between age and IFR for COVID-19. The estimated age-specific IFR is very low for children and younger adults (e.g., 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at age 25) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289900/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289900/