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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I completely agree with the covid shutdowns, in order to save the vulnerable, especially the elderly. But it's an observed fact that covid is less risky for children than normal flu. Here's a link to a May 5 analysis.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-07/comparing-coronavirus-deaths-by-age-with-flu-driving-fatalities

Quote: "For children, the risk of dying from Covid-19 appears to be much less than that of dying from influenza and pneumonia even in the most pessimistic of my three scenarios. From age 15 onward the Covid risk is higher, with the relative difference peaking for those in the 45 through 54 age group, whose risk of dying from Covid-19 in my middle scenario is four and a half times higher than their influenza and pneumonia mortality rate in 2018."

Covid is serious, but less so for children. If you have credible data about long term complications, please post it.[/quote]

And in the 3 months since that article they have figured out that even those without symptoms can get serious lung damage[/quote]

Please show me evidence. I seriously would like to see it.[/quote]

"X-rays have revealed the virus can cause lung damage even in people without severe symptoms, she said.
“They are seeing there is damage to the lungs in these asymptomatic children. ... We don’t know how that is going to manifest a year from now or two years from now,” Alonso said. “Is that child going to have chronic pulmonary problems or not?”"

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-pbc-health-director-covid-children-20200714-xcdall2tsrd4riim2nwokvmsxm-story.html[/quote]

Dr. Alonzo did NOT say that the children with lung damage weren't healing. If she had such evidence, my guess is she would have stated it.

Actually we do know that children with covid are recovering from the lung damage. Here's an Italian study that followed 8 cases of children with covid. All recovered and all had lungs that healed.

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/146/1/e20201157

"In the 7 children with pathologic ultrasound imaging at baseline, LUS was repeated before discharge and revealed improvement or resolution..."

"One patient with severe clinical type was repeatedly examined with LUS on alternate days, and we noted a B-lines bilateral pattern reduction a day in advance before clinical and radiographic improvement."[/quote]

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