Inside STAT: Covid-19 complications killed 121 Americans under age 21 through July

Despite Covid-19 posing far less of a risk to children than adults, there have been rare cases of children and young adults falling severely ill and dying from the illness. According to a new CDC report, SARS-CoV-2 killed 121 people in the U.S. under age 20 from mid-February to the end of July. And in a pattern that mimicked deaths in older populations, Black, Latinx, and Native American youth were more likely to have died from the virus than their white peers, as were kids with other medical conditions such as asthma. Although the findings add to the evidence that younger populations are less likely to get severely ill from Covid-19, roughly 10% of the deaths were in children younger than a year old. Read more from STAT's Andrew Joseph here.