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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes it will be back to normal. Cases are single digits in moco and nova. Dc can’t be far behind but the black folks really need to get vaccinated.[b] Fair fax county had one case today. Over a million people.[/b] Get it through your thick scull. It will be “safe” in the fall. It’s safe now. [/quote]

This is why.  There is literally next to no Covid in the community anymore and there will be less in the fall.  [b]There will be far more flu circling around AND the flu is far deadlier to kids.[/b] [/quote]

This. People are so insane about covid they aren’t paying any attention to science. Covid is not a big deal for kids. Flu is more dangerous and for many years we’ve still been ok with it.[/quote]

This “flu is deadlier” argument just isn’t true and I wish people would stop saying it. Please google the latest on this.[/quote]

Last I saw this study referenced was the NYT:

“The data also run counter to claims that influenza is more threatening to children than Covid-19, an argument that has been used to reopen schools and to question the value of coronavirus vaccines for children.

The number of hospitalizations related to Covid-19 among adolescents in the United States was about three times as high as hospitalizations linked to influenza over three recent flu seasons, the study found.”
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Well, what’s been shown is that Covid hospitalization numbers in kids have been vastly inflated, so that doesn’t seem to be a good metric until we can filter out those who were hospitalized for something else but tested positive upon admission in routine testing. Also, it seems very likely that in the current situation, hospitals are much quicker to admit kids with Covid symptoms than is perhaps necessary.

The study someone else linked above does seem to indicate that Covid causes more at least short term complications in adolescents with comorbidities. But even that doesn’t change the fact that the flu is still deadlier for kids, especially younger ones, as Covid fatalities in kids are thankfully rare.[/quote]

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