Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study

Re:Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study by jamses on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:21AM (#27793984)

Article lead: The overall risk of children becoming severely ill or dying from Covid is extremely low, a new analysis of Covid infection data confirms.

As far as I can tell the linked report mentions nothing about severity of illness, only mortality.

Edit: Second study is linked to further down the page which addresses the severe illnesses, as ricardobeat points out.

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Re:Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study by ricardobeat on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:33AM (#27794077)

Looks like they are reporting on multiple studies. There is a second paper that includes hospitalization rates linked under the “Hospital stays are rare” section.

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Re:Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study by mikro2nd on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:38AM (#27794121)

Also mentions nothing at all about the rapidly-rising Delta strain that appears to hit younger people much harder than other/earlier strains and in preference to older folk. Ugh. This virus is horrible.

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Re:Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study by anoncake on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:56AM (#27794251)

All strains affect younger people more than older ones. Because they aren't vaccinated.

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Re:Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study by throwaway8689 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:03PM (#27794313)

I'd like to think that was accounted for in the analysis. We can compare children infected last year when other strains were dominant, with children infected this year in UK (likely to get the Delta variant).

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Re:Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study by anoncake on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:40PM (#27794625)

I'd also like to think that no one publishes garbage studies, but there we are.

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