Interesting stats on how CV19 doesn't affect kids.

These illnesses are odd. The Spanish flu only attacked healthy people.

Thymus baw

All this talk about protecting the children.

Frankly, the stats make you wonder if the children need protecting.

What if they are poor vectors and don't really carry the disease?

Dr. Osterholm says put them back in school.

The entire point of kids being "socially distanced" is the idea that they can be infected just as readily and spread it around.

So, a school could mean not one kid gets sick and dies but tons of them spread it around and bring it back home to all their families.


Perhaps that's not true but it's different stats than what you post which would show it.

To convince people about school's re-opening, we don't need opinions but high volume tests of kids to possibly reveal something like this:

For example: "5K kids that were in households with Covid+ person were tested and only 4% tested positive as non-symptomatic carriers. "

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Interesting stats on how CV19 doesn't affect kids

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It’s not about protecting the kids

It’s about controlling the spread

Why aren’t people grasping this yet?

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All this talk about protecting the children

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I thought it was protecting the elderly & compromised people the kids came in contact sign

Are they?

Has anyone proven they are vectors for older people?

The Swiss are reopening their schools. Their expert, Dr. Daniel Koch, says the kids are bad vectors for the disease as their immune systems are so robust.

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The CDC said in a report that examined data through April 2:
2,572 (1.7%) occurred in children aged <18 years

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According to the CDC, during the 2017-2018 flu season, one of the worst in decades (over 61,000 deaths), there were 11,190,943 symptomatic infections and 643 deaths for those under 18.

So that is 1 death per 17,404 symptomatic infections in one of the deadly flu seasons in decades, 40% more deadly than the average flu season fatality rate estimate (0.14% vs. 0.1%).

Since NYC has detailed information regarding cases and deaths as well as the most reliable study on antibodies (to estimate the true number of infections). We know that they’ve had 5 deaths under 18 out of 3,555 cases, or 1 1 out of every 711 cases.

Since the antibody study indicates that the infections rate (24.7%) is about 13.16 times the case totals (1.88%), that extrapolates to about 46,768 infections for those under 18, or 1 out of 9,354 infections.

And considering that schools have been closed, which limits the primary vector for spread amongst that group, particularly the truly vulnerable (e.g., compromised immune system) my guess is that those under 18 are probably far less likely to have gotten infected than those 18 + (say 25 to 50 percent), which puts their fatalities at 1 out of every 2,338 to 4,677, which 3.7 to 7.4 times more deadly than the one of the most deadly flu season in decades, and 5 to 10 more deadly than the average seasonal flu.