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Children More Likely to Die of Flu than Covid – Deputy Chief Medical Officer This is what England's teaching unions would like primary school classrooms to look like Dr Jenny Harries, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of England, told Sky News this morning that children are more likely to die of flu or be killed in a road traffic accident than succumb to COVID-19. "The long term harms of children not attending school significantly, we think, outweigh those potential risks," she said."No environment is completely risk-free."Every time a parent sends their child off to school pre-Covid they may have been involved in a road traffic accident, there are all sorts of things."In fact that risk, or the risk from seasonal flu, we think is probably higher than the current risk of Covid." This message was complemented by the Times's front page story this morning, which says, "Teachers spread virus more than pupils." New research from Public Health England revealed that two thirds of outbreaks arose from staff-to-staff transmission, or staff-to-pupil.In June the number of schools open was between 20,500 and 23,400, with pupil numbers increasing from 475,000 to 1,646,000. In June and last month 200 children and staff were affected by the illness. Over the same period 25,470 cases were recorded across England as a whole.Thirty outbreaks, defined as two ...
