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Article lead: The overall risk of children becoming severely ill or dying from Covid is extremely low, a new analysis of Covid infection data confirms.

As far as I can tell the linked report mentions nothing about severity of illness, only mortality.

Edit: Second study is linked to further down the page which addresses the severe illnesses, as ricardobeat points out.

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Looks like they are reporting on multiple studies. There is a second paper that includes hospitalization rates linked under the “Hospital stays are rare” section.

Also mentions nothing at all about the rapidly-rising Delta strain that appears to hit younger people much harder than other/earlier strains and in preference to older folk. Ugh. This virus is horrible.

All strains affect younger people more than older ones. Because they aren't vaccinated.

I'd like to think that was accounted for in the analysis. We can compare children infected last year when other strains were dominant, with children infected this year in UK (likely to get the Delta variant).

I'd also like to think that no one publishes garbage studies, but there we are.

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