Dr. Birx at one of the early WH Task Force briefings before yom tov had observed that the few data streams they had so far from other countries showed younger children seemed to have the lowest infection rate of the various age groups although subsequent data here in the U.S. indicated that even children can become seriously ill and die from CV. She has stressed that NONE of these anecdotal studies are definitive. At this point, we have tested less than 1 percent of the U.S. population and most of those were symptomatic individuals in the upper age brackets.
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