Kids and Covid

As of August 1st 2021, 400 children have died from Covid in the US and more than half had underlying health problems. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky says that is a huge number. During the 2018-19 flu season, the CDC reported approximately 480 flu deaths among children ages 0-17, about 30% of whom had a lab-confirmed case of influenza. Many of these children brought home viruses from school and passed these on to family members which often times included grandparents. Extnsive data from England shows similar low numbers of children dying from Covie. The population of England is one/sixth of the US and they had 25 deaths which equates to 300 in the US. As a comparison 12,000 children died last year in the US from accidents.