Sep 14, 2023
Authored by Andrew Bostom via The Brownstone Institute, One of the consistent mercies of the SARS-CoV-2 "covid-19 pandemic," even at its most virulent initial stages, has been the paucity of serious disease in children generally, and healthy children, universally. Covid-19 always was and remains a very highly age- and comorbid risk-stratified disease that targets the extremely frail elderly-especially those in congregate care-and the otherwise middle-aged to elderly with multiple (for example, ≥ 6!), severe, chronic comorbidities. For the vast preponderance of the world's population, and workforce, i.e., the ~94 percent under age 70-years-old, we now know that the most aggressive early variants, such as the Wuhan, Alpha, and Delta strains, conferred a very modest infection fatality ratio (IFR; covid-19 deaths/total covid-19 infections) of 0.1 percent, or 1 per 1,000 infections. This seasonal influenza-like IFR for those
