Day: 7 August 2020

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Yes, Kids Can Get Covid. But They're More Likely to Die of Flu Last week, there was a hysterical story in the New York Times about how hundreds of children had become infected at a summer camp in Georgia. It led to crazy, paranoid "guidance" being written by bedwetting journalists, such as this piece for the NPR website advising parents to "look for" things like "consistent, mandatory mask usage for kids and adults" and "6 feet between desks, small class sizes and cohorts". As Gummi Bear said on Twitter: "Nobody said children don’t get COVID-19 so not sure what the breaking news is. A 12 year-old child has a 1 in 55,000 chance of dying IF they get it. That same child is 25x more likely to die from other causes. As a society, we have lost all commonsense in terms of risk assessment." The above IFR data from the huge seroprevalence survey in Spain – and which almost certainly overstates the IFR in every age category – says children under the age of 10 have an IFR of 0.0029% and those aged 10-18 0.0018%. The negligible risk to children is also mentioned in this piece in today's Telegraph by Science Editor Sarah Knapton entitled "How the danger of coronavirus compares with the risks of everyday life". She writes: Children ...

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