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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know it's hard to keep up to date on the latest, but here it is from June. COVID is worse for kids than the flu:

Columbia University researchers and colleagues determined that, while death was uncommon, infection with SARS-CoV-2 produced more symptoms and complications than seasonal influenza.

The study, which was published online in the journal Pediatrics, also found wide variation in how children and adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19 were treated.

In response to views that ranged from COVID-19 in children and adolescents being no more than the common flu to a significant danger to lesser-developed immune systems, the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) global network, which is based at Columbia, gathered real-world observational data on more than 242,000 children and adolescents diagnosed with COVID-19, including nearly 10,000 hospitalized youths. They then compared that information to more than 2 million in that cohort diagnosed with influenza across five countries—France, Germany, South Korea, Spain, and the United States.

The study team determined that neurodevelopmental disorders, heart disease, and cancer were more common among hospitalized patients versus those just diagnosed with COVID-19. The researchers also report that dyspnea, bronchiolitis, anosmia, and gastrointestinal symptoms were more common in COVID-19 than influenza.

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/05/28/peds.2020-042929

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I realize you posted this as a statement about flu versus covid, but it also provides info on likelihood of severe covid among kids:

Hospitalization was observed in 0.3% to 1.3% of the COVID-19 diagnosed cohort, with undetectable (N&lt;5 per database) 30-day fatality. (That's out of 242,158 covid cases in kids).

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Conclusion:  "COVID-19 affects children/adolescents of all ages but severe outcomes are reassuringly uncommon."  Also indicates that severe outcomes are tied to comorbidities.  [/quote]

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