That study is exactly as useless as the totally implausible sounding result would lead you to think. It has no control group (so it’s counting the 10% of children who have problems like “headache” or “lack of concentration” months after infection as having a COVID symptom), the methodology of how children were selected is a total mystery (but 5% of them were hospitalized, so it’s clearly biased towards dramatically more severe cases than the general population) and the sample size is tiny.
I don’t know the best way to figure out how much kids are at risk but it doesn’t have anything to do with reading that.
Yeah, this is the problem I’m having with data on children—the simple cases/hospitalizations/deaths numbers are obviously good, but I’m struggling to find a robust study that more conclusively assures the risk rate in the younger age range. It’s easy to otherwise dismiss it as a simple matter of most kids being shut in over the past year versus the necessary adult workforce.
That study is exactly as useless as the totally implausible sounding result would lead you to think. It has no control group (so it’s counting the 10% of children who have problems like “headache” or “lack of concentration” months after infection as having a COVID symptom), the methodology of how children were selected is a total mystery (but 5% of them were hospitalized, so it’s clearly biased towards dramatically more severe cases than the general population) and the sample size is tiny.
I don’t know the best way to figure out how much kids are at risk but it doesn’t have anything to do with reading that.
Yeah, this is the problem I’m having with data on children—the simple cases/hospitalizations/deaths numbers are obviously good, but I’m struggling to find a robust study that more conclusively assures the risk rate in the younger age range. It’s easy to otherwise dismiss it as a simple matter of most kids being shut in over the past year versus the necessary adult workforce.