From WSJopinion: The biggest risk to children comes from disruptions in their schooling. We will be cleaning up the school-closing mess for years, and fomenting baseless fear only makes the task harder, writes DrJBhattacharya.
Second, evidence from audits of death certificates found that 35% of all pediatric deaths in 2020 “had co-occurring diagnosis codes that could not be plausibly categorized as either a chain-of-event or significant contributing condition,” according to a
published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Put another way, in at least 35% of pediatric “Covid deaths,” CovidThird, Dr. Faust relies on a figure for confirmed flu deaths that is well-known to underestimate actual flu deaths by an order of magnitude. Correcting for the lack of flu testing, the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases1,161 pediatric flu deaths in the 2012-13 season rather than the 142 that Dr. Faust reported.
For the White House to amplify a false message of high Covid risk for children undermines public health and erodes public confidence. It foments an erroneous assessment of risk and is the kind of misinformation that leads to more school closings as well as burdensome mask and quarantine mandates. There are far greater risks to children than Covid. Since March 2020, more than 1,000 kids have died with Covid , according to the CDC. In the same period more than 1,400 childrenThe biggest risk to children comes from disruptions in their schooling. We will be cleaning up the school-closing mess for years, and fomenting baseless fear only makes the task harder.
Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor of health policy at Stanford and a founding fellow at the Academy for Science and Freedom.Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kate Bachelder, Mene Ukueberuwa and Dan Henninger. Images: Paramount Pictures/Zuma Press/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyAppeared in the June 6, 2022, print edition.
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