She points out that 143 kids between the ages of 5 and 11 have died from this...out of 28.5 million kids this age. If we extrapolated that number out to the entire population of 330 million, that comes out to about 1,650 deaths total.
Come on. And she mentions 8,300 kids in this age group have been hospitalized. Turns out that's less than a typical flu season.
Colin Powell said experts often possess more data than judgment. And Dr. Wen is a perfect example of that.