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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many kids in the entire United States have died of covid? [/quote]

According to CDC as of Jan 13, 55 children ages 5-14 have died with covid.

You can't really tease out the high schoolers from the college age kids - the next CDC category of age jumps, from 15 to 24 years old.

The large majority of child and teen covid deaths involve underlying conditions.[/quote]

And, how many adults contracted covid from kids and died because of that?  Oh wait, we don't track that.[/quote]

We know that kids can transmit covid, but are less likely than adults to do so.  There's a lot of published research looking into that exact question, such a study from Iceland of 40k people that found that children under 15 were half as likely to transmit.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/we-now-know-how-much-children-spread-coronavirus/

We also know that in the US, disease rates in counties with in person school available for kids are similar to areas with online only school options, and the CDC has noted that covid 19 outbreaks aren't driven by in person classes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/covid-19-outbreaks-aren-t-driven-by-in-person-classes-cdc-says

Regardless this thread is asking about next fall, when likely the adults in the home WILL have had the opportunity to be vaccinated. [/quote]

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