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Comment by ekianjo | Hacker News Reader

> The kids weren't in danger, that appears to be changing very quickly with the new variant

Death rate for kids with new variant please?

Right now kids are in danger because they are getting covid and RSV at the same time. RSV is surging in many areas of the USA.

also keep in mind that any "children" statistic refers to people anywhere in the range of 0-18

"Dangerous" and "fatal" are not the same word. The Delta variant is more contagious, meaning more children are being hospitalized. Even if the Delta variant isn't "more dangerous" per case the same level of danger is more prevalent because of the contagion.

https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...

There is more than death. We still don't know enough about Long Covid - depending on who you believe it is anything from normal things blamed on Covid to additional life long complications. Until science figures this out (I expect it to take years) I don't know if it is safe to risk my kids or not.

And we still don’t know the long term effects of kids breathing god knows what substances these cheap Chinese masks contain. We also have no clue what it will do to their language and social development. Yet people cheer on forcing them to wear one for an entire school day 5 days a week.

Like what? This is the first I've heard such a thing. It isn't hard to do a chemical analysis, so if there was any grounding in it I'd expect to have seen a better source then a random comment.

That said, my kids are wearing made in the USA masks.

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