COVID-19 Mortality in England 'Extremely Rare' Among Under-20s: Official StudyDeaths from COVID-19 remain “extremely rare” in people under the age of 20, according to a study of follow-up data in the UK.
Between March 2020 and December 2021, while there were 185 deaths in England among children and young people (CYP) within 100 days of a lab-confirmed COVID-19 infection, fewer than half died directly because of the virus, the study found.
The peer-reviewed study, published on Nov. 8 on the PLOS Medicine Journal website, was conducted by researchers from the UK’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Studying the 22-month follow-up data on all 6,790 under-20s deaths, the team corroborated findings from a number of previous analyses that looked at data from a shorter period of time....
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