How deadly is COVID-19 for children? Here's what we know

As it becomes clear that COVID-19 will remain a serious concern when the new school year starts in September, parents have a lot of questions.

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While there are still many unknowns about children and the novel coronavirus, the answer to that last question, at least, seems clear – and perhaps even reassuring."In Canada, the death rate is about one per 10,000 infected," Dr. Stephen Freedman, a Calgary-based pediatric emergency medicine physician and researcher, told CTVNews.ca on Monday via telephone.

We know that the one young Canadian to die after contracting COVID-19 is female, but nothing else – not their age, not whether their medical history left them at higher risk of serious complications from infection, not even if they died because of COVID-19 or died of something else after being diagnosed with the disease.One death out of 7,888 cases in children and teenagers means that less than 0.

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