The Republican governor of Missouri is pushing for children to return to school.<br />Gov. Mike Parson’s controversial comments came during a Friday interview on KFTK.<br />“These kids have got to get back to school... if they do get COVID-19, which they will — and they will when they go to school — they’re not going to the hospitals. They’re not going to have to sit in doctor’s offices. They’re going to go home and they’re going to get over it.”<br />While the symptoms of COVID-19 are generally more mild in children than adults...<br />...There have been many cases of serious illness and even deaths among juveniles.<br />An 8-year-old girl in North Carolina died in early June four days after testing positive for COVID-19.<br />A school-aged child in Oklahoma died this month of complications related to the disease.<br />As of Monday, a child no older than 5 became the youngest person to die from COVID-19 in MN.
