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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok but why didn’t day cares react similarly to flu pre-covid? That seemed riskier than covid for kids.

Covid does not seem nearly as dangerous as flu for kids.

From a February 2020 article about flu: 
“Children ages 4 and younger have been hospitalized at a rate of 80.1 per 100,000 children, the highest rate the CDC has on record, even surpassing rates during the 2009 pandemic.”

https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/9761

From a January 7 NYT article:
“More than four in 100,000 children ages 4 and younger admitted to hospitals were infected with the coronavirus as of Jan. 1 — double the rate reported a month ago and about three times the rate this time last year.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/health/covid-children-hospitals.html

Notice how the NYT article is carefully worded too because they probably don’t know if the children under 4 were hospitalized for covid or something else, like a broken bone. 
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Flu vaccines are available to all kids age 6 mo and up.

These two stats aren't comparable.  The first (Feb 2020) stat seems to have a hospitalization for flu rate of 80 per 100k kids - all kids.  Which is a lot! The second stat has the infection rate of kids who were admitted (4 of 100k kids - hospital admitted kids).  And the stat was as of 1/1, so only just catching the start of any hospitalizations as a result of omicron wave.  You can try to draw some conclusion from these two stats, but would be better to find more comparable stats.

If you are looking at hospitalization and deaths, RSV is certainly more dangerous to our <5s, especially the < 1 set.[/quote]

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