Columbia Climate School: High Heat Is Preferentially Killing the Young, Not the Old, New Research Finds

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6. You know... things change

Very early on in COVID-19 (before lockdowns) my dental hygienist said that at Thanksgiving Dinner, a relative who is a doctor, warned that this new disease would likely be hardest on young children. I replied that the data from China suggested otherwise.

Time has borne that out.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-in-babies-and-children/art-20484405

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How likely is it for a child to become sick with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?

Data tracking between 2020 and 2023 found that children made up about 18% of all people with reported COVID-19 in the United States.

While children are as likely as adults to catch the virus that causes COVID-19, kids are less likely to become seriously ill. From 2020 to the end of March 2024, children up to age 17 accounted for about 1.5% of people who needed to be treated for COVID-19 in the hospital.

But some children with COVID-19 need to be hospitalized, treated in the intensive care unit or placed on a machine to help them breathe, called a ventilator. Very rarely, COVID-19 can cause death.

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