Thread: Here is Fauci recently claiming that ‘we’ve lost’ more children from COVID than we ‘ever lose’ from the flu. This isn’t true. In the next tweet, see CDC estimates of flu deaths among children during recent flu seasons…
In four of the last eight flu seasons, CDC estimates show more pediatric deaths from flu than we’ve seen among kids ‘with’ COVID throughout the entire year-and-half pandemic: 
Deaths among kids are exceedingly rare from both COVID and the flu, thankfully, but Fauci’s assertion isn’t accurate. Flu has been deadlier for kids than COVID in recent years, yet we don’t turn their lives upside down during flu seasons.
We need serious, fact-based policies on COVID & kids. That’s already hard enough, amid a flood of overwrought hysteria & misinformation. It’s especially unhelpful when the most famous doctor in America makes incorrect claims overstating a (blessedly, vanishingly rare) threat.
More context on the data in this thread:
If anything, pediatric COVID deaths are overstated, due to 'with' vs. 'of' issue on deaths & hospitalizations. See: wsj.com/articles/in-ch…
and: theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Flu has been deadlier to kids than COVID.
https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1439979751318466562?s=20
If anything, pediatric COVID deaths are overstated, due to 'with' vs. 'of' issue on deaths & hospitalizations. See: wsj.com/articles/in-ch…
and: theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Flu has been deadlier to kids than COVID.
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