Roel Griffioen on Nostr: "Since the COVID pandemic began, claims that the disease poses only minimal risk to ...

"Since the COVID pandemic began, claims that the disease poses only minimal risk to children have spread widely, on the presumption that the lower rate of severe acute illness in kids tells the whole story. Notions that children are nearly immune & don’t need to be vaccinated have pervaded.
These ideas are wrong. These claims ignore the accumulating risk of long COVID, the long-term health effects caused by infection, in children who may get infected once / twice a year."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-covid-is-harming-too-many-kids/