The COVID-19 pandemic

[jeffster]

Tom, where are you getting your hospitalization numbers? I can’t find anywhere that 2% of infected children end up in hospital, let alone 1% end up in ICU. You have any links?

As I said, I used CDC data as it's a much larger data set (and easily searchable). Use the visualization tools on the CDC web site, filter by age and filter out the missing/unknown values.
https://data.cdc.gov/Case-Surveillance/C...-akqf/data

From that data:

• 632,808 children (0-9) infected and NOT hospitalized
  
• 15,131 children (0-9) infected and hospitalized (about 2.33%)
  

I am going to admit that the info in the link is very hard to understand, but, based on that link alone, it had 1,509,000 patients (0-9) with Covid-19, but I don't know what "Missing", "No", "Unknown" and "Yes" mean. What I do know, is that in the US, 5.3M children have gotten Covid-19.

https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20...0FINAL.pdf

(From this site:  https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-...ta-report/ )

Further down it shows a 0.9% hospitalization rate for children with Covid-19 and with children making up 2.4% of all covid-19 hospitalizations.

And to be honest, I am not sure how important a dynamic of 'hospitalized' is. I only say this because, as a parent, you take your kid to the hospital for stuff, including the sniffles (even before covid).

I am still waiting for you to show me that 1% of infected children are put into the ICU. This is an important dynamic. Because ICU usually means incubated (about 70% IIRC), and a very high death rate. With about 5.3M children, in the USA, having contracted Covid-19, 1% would be 53,000 children, and even if just 50% were incubated, that is 26,500, it should show a more deaths than the 400 I linked to (for the USA).

I did also show you Ontario's values, since this is where we live.