From what I have seen, we had almost no pediatric fataltities from vanilla covid. I have seen a handful with this spicy covid. So it it too soon to tell but something is going on. I couldn't say how much of what I have seen locally holds true for anyplace else.

Also I dunno if we can pick the signal out of the noise if it is because people don't care about safety anymore or the new strian. Too early to tell but probably both though.