If you want to know why it's worth protecting kids from Covid, here's your answer. 🧵
https://twitter.com/greg_travis/status/1469466617448964102
The answer to “Why protect kids?” has to do with the risks of becoming infected. But some people, like @DLeonhardt, hide the risks of pediatric infection in adverse outcomes per 100K. 
This is like building a haystack around a needle. The risk of poor outcomes all but disappears because it is buried under a preponderance of uninfected people.
nytimes.com/2021/12/10/bri…
This is what @DLeonhardt did today when he linked to the chart above. It makes Covid look less scary but only by including people who don’t have Covid in the risk estimates.
This is what @DLeonhardt did today when he linked to the chart above. It makes Covid look less scary but only by including people who don’t have Covid in the risk estimates.
This overlooks what most parents want to know: “What happens if my kid is infected?”. State estimates vary but the risk of infection that results in hospitalization is around 1 in 100. aap.org/en/pages/2019-…
The irony is people like @DLeonhardt free-ride off the benefits of protection when they point to adverse outcomes at the population level. There are fewer adverse outcomes because there are fewer infections. There are fewer infections because there are protections.
The idea that this is a reason to lift those protections is like saying you don’t need your feet since you are already walking.
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