As featured in the Jacobin article by Prins, Feldman, and Cartus: ’Members of the teachers' union, parents, and students participate in a march through Brooklyn to demand a safer teaching environment for themselves and for students during the COVID-19 pandemic on September 1, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)’

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Addressing Myths around Children and Covid19.

For a while we were told that children did not catch or transmit covid, that they were unlikely to die from it (they had “natural immunity”) and that the biggest harm to children was forcing them to stay home from school or mask within those spaces.

‘Children can’t and don’t become infected and transmit Covid19’

‘Children aren’t getting very sick/going to hospital with Covid19’

Hospitalizations

‘Children aren’t dying from Covid19’

Covid is the 8th leading cause of death for children (ages 0 months-18 years) in the US. Deaths for children due to Covid19 outpace deaths by flu.

According to this piece by Jeremy Faust, more children died of Delta and Omicron variants than flu in any past season

https://twitter.com/j_bloyd/status/1533813986550071296?s=20&t=v3A2L4ay4we41AR_pMEx2Q

wsbgnl commends WH for acknowledging Covid19 > flu pediatric deaths, but points out that beyond vaccination children are in unsafe conditions in schools currently and that also children are not the ones deciding whether they get vaccinated .

https://twitter.com/wsbgnl/status/1531449893398536192?s=20&t=v3A2L4ay4we41AR_pMEx2Q

Sharp increase in death for children over the last year

Reporting from The Guardian 1/5 of all pediatric Covid19 deaths have been from Omicron, 550 children died in first 3 months of 2022.

CDC reported 300 deaths of children 0-4 between early September 2021 and late February 2022.

https://twitter.com/AShihipar/status/1502310793844600836?s=20&t=v3A2L4ay4we41AR_pMEx2Q

‘Children are getting sick from the vaccine, which is more dangerous than Covid19’

This is a myth.

Dr. Jonathan Howard goes on The Death Panel to talk to B about myths around Covid19 severity in children and anti-vaccine for children arguments.

Long Covid and Covid induced illnesses in Children

Hepatitiis

https://twitter.com/BNNBreaking/status/1522196495336095745?s=20&t=v3A2L4ay4we41AR_pMEx2Q

Diabetes

https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1479528331825582081?s=20&t=v3A2L4ay4we41AR_pMEx2Q

Long Covid

Meta-analyses from Nature

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