Fauci tells Senate not to underestimate COVID-19's effect on children

ABSTRACT

Fauci testified remotely during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) called Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases responded to comments from Republican Sen. Rand Paul, MD, of Kentucky, who noted that the mortality rate from COVID-19 among children in hard-hit New York approaches zero. Other highlights from the hearing include the following * Fauci said the U.S. death toll, which surpassed 100,000 in late May, is likely an underestimate, noting that some people who died at home from COVID-19 may not have been counted among the official numbers. * All roads back to work and back to school run through testing, said HELP committee chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee.