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[quote=Anonymous][quote]think this previous quote puts it all in perspective:

[i]Out of about 3.5 million cases of Covid-19 in children in the United States, the National Center for Health Statistics has reported, as of July 28, that 519 children have died from Covid-19 (fewer than 0.015 percent), including 346 children 5 to 17 years of age, and 173 children 4 or younger. Children with underlying medical conditions are the most likely to be hospitalized. Black and Hispanic children also had higher rates of hospitalization, although overall risk remained low."
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"While any death of a child is devastating, it may help parents to think about other risks to childhood health compared to Covid-19. The C.D.C. estimates there were 480 deaths among children from influenza during the 2018-19 school year. Injury is the leading cause of death among children — about 12,000 children and young adults 1 to 19 years of age die in accidents each year, including more than 4,000 deaths in car crashes, 900 drowning accidents and 761 unintentional poisonings or drug overdoses.[/quote]

+1. The risk to children isn't nothing, of course. But it's on par with other risks that we know about and manage as part of navigating the world. If you are personally at higher risk from anything, you put measures in place. I'm more vigilant with groceries because my youngest has unusual food allergies. In DC, we've seen 0% mortality for anyone under age 19 due to Covid, and maybe 10 deaths across all age groups in the last two months. (Needless to say, zero would be better. But we're in a very different place than last year.)

We tend to talk about "school" like it's intrinsically risky or safe. But it's how you handle it. You can open school with no safeguards, and have a real problem. You can open a school with careful planning and multiple safeguards, and do very well. Both the data and the experience from schools who were open all last year indicate the same.[/quote]

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