Children are extremely unlikely to die from COVID-19, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals.
The agency’s data shows that around 8.3 million children have contracted Covid and 841 have died since the pandemic began in March 2020.
This means that children make up around 12 percent of cases and less than 0.1 percent of deaths in the U.S. The Census estimates that 22 percent of Americans are under the age of 18.
Children under the age of five are especially unlikely to die, with 259 deaths being reported among the population that makes up six percent of Americans.
It has long been known children do not suffer from Covid as badly as adults do. Previous studies have found that around half of cases among children are asymptomatic.
Despite this, Covid vaccines in the U.S. have been authorized for children as young as five years old and in city’s like New York young children are still subject to mask mandates.