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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh at people making cost benefit analysis about people dying alone in a room[/quote]

Kids are more at risk during flu season -- were you agitating to close schools every flu season?  Come on.  [/quote]

300,000 people didn’t die from the flu[/quote]
No, but if we're talking about the metrics for only [b]kids[/b]:

#kids who died from the flu last year: 188
# kids who died from covid so far: approx. 154*

*7 states did not stratify covid deaths by age
*15 states reported 0 pediatric covid deaths

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2019-2020/2019-20-pediatric-flu-deaths.htm
https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/

A couple of contextual notes with these stats:
The CDC believes the actual number of flu deaths is much higher -- closer to 600 -- because of major inconsistencies in the way they are documented. 
The CDC considers the number of pediatric flu deaths to be "relatively rare".
The CDC considers severe pediatric illness from covid to be "rare".[/quote]

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