"We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought."
The notion that kids wouldn't be harmed by COVID seemed ridiculous in 2020 (And I wasn't buying it for one second) and has been proven to be incorrect. It's up there with old fashioned medical beliefs that babies couldn't feel pain.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/31/Physicist-COVID-Seriously-Enough/