I've seen two lines of thought (a) I'm not returning fully to regular life until there is a vaccine (b) I'm concerned about mortality rates, so I'm willing to go out if the death rate is in line with other well-known infections. Once more effective treatments are developed, I will feel comfortable. Which camp are you in?
I’ve been in the camp that the death rate is <1% and concentrated among the obese, infirm, and elderly, and I am none of these so I will live my life as normal as possible today.
I'm absolutely in your camp. And especially when it comes to my kids, the flu seems far more scary than Covid.
OMG - the flu is scarier than Covid? You can’t be serious. Have you heard that you can easily prevent or mitigate the flu with a safe and effective vaccine? It has been around for decades. If you’re so worried, try it.
^ also there is tamiflu for treatment of the flu!
I don't personally feel the way OR feels, but I do personally know more children who have died from the flu than have died from COVID. So in terms of death rate, it is higher for flu for kids.
Exactly. Even with a vaccine and tamiflu, mortality rate among kids is far higher for flu than Covid. I'm only talking about my kids - for myself (late 40's), Covid is more deadly. But I'm way more scared of a cancer diagnosis than Covid.
Covid rates may be low for kids because parents have been quarantining and keeping kids safe. High numbers of cases in kids are being reported from daycare centers and camps which have opened. Kids have kawasaki like disease. Long term effects are possible on cognitive and cardiac function.
In Europe people are no longer quarantining children. EU countries never closed schools or only closed them for a short time, there are day camps, parties... of the kids were at risk of dying en masse, they would be by now. Also only one or two obese kids who got Kawasaki like disease died from it, all others recovered. Kids. Are. Fine.
Kids can get COVID, but the fatality rate for kids is much lower than from flu. And according to a European epidemiologist, there are no reported cases of teachers getting COVID from students.
Daycares that stayed open through the surge and now camps that follow guidance (masks, hand sanitizers, distancing) have reported no cases. The daycares in Texas and California with reported cases have not followed guidance. Parents are going in and out of the facilities with no masks on.
Maybe, but the covid rates were never high for kids even at the height of the NYC epidemic - and the disease was clearly spreading like wildfire well before kids were quarantined.
Also, I know this is anecdata, but I know a bunch of families where both the parents had fairly serious cases of Covid, and the kids either didn't get sick at all or barely got sick. Some live in really tiny apartments with a single bath - the kids had to have been exposed.
Again, I find Covid scary (due to potential unknown effects), but not terrifying.
This happened to my friend. Her whole family had Covid. Her 6 year old dd had a mild case and her 4 year old didn’t have any symptoms.
I personally knew a case where single mom living with her daughter in a one bedroom apt. Mom got it and was sick for two weeks while living with her daughter. Mom tested antibody and got positive result. The daughter was never sick and not positive on antibody test result.