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NEW STUDY out of Germany. On COVID-19 and kids. Please share with your family and friends.

Highlights:

- The risk of ICU admission in kids ages 0 to 17 was 8 per 100,000 (0.08%) and only 2 per 100,000 (0.02%) in kids 5 to 11.

- There were only 3 deaths among the 1,056,276 kids studied (0.0000284%); not a single child between 5 and 17 years old died.

- Children 5 to 11 years old have a lower risk than those <5 years old or 12 to 17 years old.

To put this in perspective, the risk of death from flu in children ages 0 to 17 during the 2019-2020 flu season in the U.S. was approximately 10 per 1 million, or 3.33-fold higher than the risk of death from COVID-19 in this German study.

This is great news for parents. The German study shows us that the risk of COVID-19 to all kids is very low—and even lower for healthy kids with no comorbidities or pre-existing health problems.

This summary notes above can be found on Chris Kresser’s newsletter, he is a functional medicine/nutrition practitioner.

Study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v1.full.pdf?utm_campaign=Chris%20Kresser%20General%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=192070003&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8H8CnmkYS-029CyKrXZjRE7-eNVzlfQ1TBRd5u4XSxl6tEdhtGY-VaA0fcyRAORbBGMH5uKF5wF3MsaXQb2ddHJnQ1jA&utm_content=192070003&utm_source=hs_email