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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed. The risk to young kids seems to be so, so low -- lower than flu. It makes me sad to think of these young kids in masks for another year for no reason. It's not reasonable.[/quote] The risk is not lower than flu. Get off Facebook. [/quote] The risk to young kids actually does appear to be similar to flu. There's been about 300 deaths among kids under 18 from covid, though end of May. In the last "normal" flu season before the pandemic, 2019-2020, there were 199 pediatric flu deaths in the U.S. (and that's with vaccines available, albeit generally less effective than the mRNA covid vaccines are). Of course, you could use the same stats to argue that we should be masking during flu season, since it helped prevent spread of flu this year. But it's not unreasonable to conclude that the risk to young kids from covid is lower or equal to the flu risk.[/quote]
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