Why there is no reason to believe that a ‘child wave’ is coming. June 5, 2021,Chandrakant Lahiriya https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/why-there-is-no-reason-to-believe-that-a-child-wave-is-coming/ contrary to all the evidence, both social and mainstream media are abuzz about how children are either already getting severely affected or likely to get severe disease in the third wave. Any mention of children and Covid-19 together is taken as confirmation of this conjecture. ,,
even an early career epidemiologist would tell you that to draw the correct inference, one needs to know both numerator and denominator. In April-May 2021, Maharashtra reported nearly 29 lakh new Covid cases. Therefore, 99,000 new cases in the 0-10 age group is 3.5% of total cases, while this age group makes up nearly 24% of total population.