From @AmerAcadPeds data on Covid in kids. Documents 288K total child cases, and 76 tragic deaths. CDC in its school opening guidance compares pediatric Covid deaths to pediatric flu deaths. Flu caused 11.3M documented cases of symptomatic disease in kids in 2018-19 vs Covid 288K.
From @AmerAcadPeds data on Covid in kids. Documents 288K total child cases, and 76 tragic deaths. CDC in its school opening guidance compares pediatric Covid deaths to pediatric flu deaths. Flu caused 11.3M documented cases of symptomatic disease in kids in 2018-19 vs Covid 288K.
From @AmerAcadPeds data on Covid in kids. Documents 288K total child cases, and 76 tragic deaths. CDC in its school opening guidance compares pediatric Covid deaths to pediatric flu deaths. Flu caused 11.3M documented cases of symptomatic disease in kids in 2018-19 vs Covid 288K.
More information on CDC's data regarding influenza in children for 2018-19 can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
The upshot here is Covid has not infected nearly as many children as flu does; in part because we have deliberately sheltered kids from Covid. So the comparisons in total morbidity between Covid and flu that CDC makes in their back-to-school guidance need to be viewed cautiously.
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