Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills

Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by DuskStar on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:06PM (#24148006)

Or people are assuming that the long term effects of COVID on children are similar to that of the flu on children, given similar death rates. (Which seems plausible, if you count '10x higher' as 'similar'. Overall, the flu is about 1/30th the IFR of COVID-19, but apparently most of the difference is at older ages)

EDIT: And, in fact, the CDC says that the Flu is more dangerous to healthy children than COVID-19: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm and search for 'children'. Though the CDC may not be a trusted source for many...

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by oxymoran on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:24PM (#24148377)

10x higher for people in their 80’s. Show me where the death rate is 10x higher than the flu for people under 40.

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by DuskStar on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:51PM (#24148900)

Yeah, the CDC actually says that COVID-19 is safer for healthy children than the flu now: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm

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