Cognitive Illusions and How Not to Write About COVID-19 and Children

A problematic statement In an interview on May 11th 2021, Dr. Monica Gandhi said, Children and young adults are very low risk for severe disease, about one in a million chance of death for a child under 19 from COVID as opposed to 600 deaths [per million] in the U.S. from adults. These numbers are all wrong.  By the time Dr. Gandhi […]

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