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Tell that to the parents of the hundreds of children listed above who have died of COVID in the U.S. I'm sure they'll appreciate the sentiment. National percentages don't mean much, if it's your child that has died...

These are the actual COVID death numbers being reported by the CDC based on age group (the download link is there on the website you listed above), which in fact included hundreds of deaths among the very young age groups. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics Also, those cited 575,000+ death numbers only reflect a portion of the total U.S. COVID death count which now exceeds 700,000, and likely don't tend to include the most recent cases because of time delays. Child COVID infection rates in the U.S. have been spiraling lately. "As of October 6, 2021, a total of 707,065 COVID-19 deaths have been reported in the United States." https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html "For the first time during the pandemic, children now account for more than one quarter of new weekly US COVID-19 cases, according to the latest report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Nearly 252,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported for the week ending Sep 2, the largest number recorded for children during the pandemic, according to the report. Children accounted for 26.8% of reported weekly US cases. The AAP said this was the largest number of child cases in a week since the pandemic began." https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/09/us-data-show-child-covid-19-cases-rising-exponentially

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