Article content continuedSo we have actually been extremely successful in shifting the risk of infection from the professional class to the working class. The key feature with COVID-19 is that there’s a 1,000-fold difference in risk in mortality and deaths between the oldest and the youngest. Children have less risk from COVID-19 than from the annual influenza. At the same time, the burden of the lockdown is enormous on children and young adults because of the collateral damage in other aspects of public health. There have been over 200,000 deaths in the United States, many of which could have been avoided if we had taken a more basic public health approach to this pandemic.

Source: National Post November 23, 2020 11:03 UTC