Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance
by hedgehog on Thursday November 10, 2022 @10:44AM
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Intuitively it sounds nice but I haven't seen any actual evidence that this is what's happening. It seems a lot like the story that kids don't get COVID, a feel-good story but not really based on anything but hopeful speculation.
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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance
by peteradio on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:24AM
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> like the story that kids don't get COVID
What story is that? Are you sure you aren't misparaphrasing the fact that kids are not susceptible to severe outcomes?
Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance
by hedgehog on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:41AM
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Yes, it was repeat messaging from the presidents on down.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22kids+don%27t+catch+covid%...
Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance
by r2_pilot on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:30AM
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It was a common dis-information campaign until reality hit so hard that nobody could possibly support the idea: https://fullfact.org/health/children-can-get-coronavirus/
Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance
by briandon on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:43AM
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Kids are at significantly less risk of severe illness from covid than from influenza. This is well-known (see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34107134/ for example).
I remember when the CDC quietly subtracted more than 72k alleged covid deaths, including some alleged pediatric covid deaths, from the tally and blamed a "coding error": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/cdc-coding-err...
Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance
by ohiovr on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:19PM
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This is patently absurd to say a disease that causes bad outcomes for 2 in a million should recieve a drug that causes bad outcomes for millions. Keep it up! Are you an insider too?
What do your fact checkers say about the leading cause of death in Canada?