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cord-300310-21llzfxz	Kilham, Henry A	COVID‐19 apocalypse for children: Predictable, preventable?	2020-08-24		.txt	text/plain	698	54	69	In his editorial Apocalypse Perhaps, the Editor-in-Chief gives us a fine and balanced analysis of the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. This commentary, then, is restricted to considering children and young people, and essentially argues that these age groups can reasonably be predicted to face an apocalypse from the downstream economic effects of the pandemic. First, although, is the joyous fact that it is very rare for children and young people to suffer severe disease and die from COVID-19. How much worse would it be if children died more often than much older people, or if deaths were across all ages? 2 So children and young people, then? Yet the damage to children and young people if we have a prolonged world-wide recession could be far greater, from the known direct consequences of severe poverty (Table 1) .	./cache/cord-300310-21llzfxz.txt	./txt/cord-300310-21llzfxz.txt