Children can spread it to parents and grandparents. The elderly are at a risk of dying from coronavirus. I'm sure all the school closings etc, are being done as a necessity for the public's health.
Yes, that is evidently the logic. However, according to the articles, it's not that children are getting it and simply not showing any symptoms, thereby having the potential to pass it on to adults; but they're not getting it at all very much. Reportedly 2.4%, although I don't know how they've ascertained that percentage since they don't test people without symptoms.
Here are some other surprising facts from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), and JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association):
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2762130
"No deaths were reported among mild and severe cases. The CFR (case-fatality rate) was 49.0% among critical cases. CFR was elevated among those with preexisting comorbid conditions—10.5% for cardiovascular disease, 7.3% for diabetes, 6.3% for chronic respiratory disease, 6.0% for hypertension, and 5.6% for cancer. "
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...ce-hcf.html#f1
“Recent reports suggest that approximately 80% of COVID-19 patients (of all ages) have experienced mild illness
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Note that "mild" means few or no symptoms while having the virus.
So neither mild or severe disease infection causes death. Only those "critical" cases, mostly elderly, who have co-morbitity of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, hypertension, and cancer (in decreasing importance) have the chance of dying. Among that reported group who've gotten the disease it's a 49% mortality rate. I'd add to that tuberculosis, which was the case in Italy, due to high numbers of migrants.
But one really has to dig online to find meaningful statistics which are crowded out by the doom and gloom.
Instead we get pronouncements like this one by Dr. Brian Monahan, who is the attending physician to the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court:
https://www.mediaite.com/news/congre...t-coronavirus/
"Dr.
Brian Monahan, the attending physician of Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court, told Senate administrative office staff that he expects 70 million to 150 million people in the United States, roughly 1/3 of the population, will contract the coronavirus."
So using the death rate in the U.S. of 2%, he is stating that 3,000,000 people will die from the virus in the U.S.!! China has 1.5
billion people, and only 3189 have died from it, while there are currently far fewer new cases.
Monahan's statement is unconscionable, reckless and harmful. At the very least he should be fired. But this is the kind of exaggeration and half-truth that the media continues to try to panic the public with.