Readit NewsLittleMoveBig commented on Massachusetts Reports 'Significant Overcount' of Covid Deaths nbcboston.com/news/local/... · Posted by u/LittleMoveBig
The article doesn’t make this clear, strangely, but it looks like adopting this new standard will make the death count go from roughly 100,000 to 85,000.
If my math is correct, it's from 27,000 to 23,000?
LittleMoveBig commented on · Posted by u/mgh2
> According to the AAP’s tracker, 871 children have died thus far in the pandemic
During the 2009 H1N1 influenza season, 1,090 children died. This was over a single season, not an aggregated count from the beginning of time, which seems to be a phenomenon unique to COVID. Until some point late last year, the CDC even had language on their website saying that young children were more likely to experience complications from influenza than from Covid-19.