As of Saturday, 36 children under 15 have died from COVID-19, about 0.03 percent of all coronavirus deaths at the time, according to data from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The flu, another contagious respiratory illness, killed an estimated 477 people under 17 years old in the 2018 – 2019 season,
according to the CDC. From 2010 to the end of the 2019 flu season, the CDC said the illness killed an average of 511 children each year.
Children under 17 years old accounted for about 6.7 percent of all coronavirus cases in the U.S. as of Thursday, according to
CDC data. The number has risen from 5.9 percent reported a few weeks ago.