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Go to this site https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

for updated nubmers and you will see that no one, repeat no one under the age of 10 worldwide has died. That is because the virus is mild compared to SARS etc. The death rate is much lower than reported because most cases are mild, and unreported that is why 3 UCLA students were suspected of having it and they tested negative and just have a cold.

Both HHS and New England Journal of Medicine now say its between 0.1% and 1%.

On Thursday HHS Assistant Secretary Admiral Brett Giroir told reporters,
“The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%. That’s lower than you heard probably in many reports … it’s not likely in the range of 2 to 3%.”

This puts coronavirus on par with a typical flu epidemic to something slightly higher — NOT something like a SARS or MERS virus with a much higher mortality rate.
Via NBC News.

New England Journal of Medicine :
many corona virus cases are so mild they’re not even being reported, Fauci explained in an editorial he co-wrote in the same issue of the NEJM. Co-authors include Dr. Robert Redfield, who directs the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Clifford Lane, deputy director of the NIAID.

“If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%,” Dr. Fauci and his colleagues explained.

“This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of COVID-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza pandemic [which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%] or a pandemic influenza [similar to those in 1957 and 1968],” the experts wrote.

Go to this site https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
for updated nubmers and you will see that no one, repeat no one under the age of 10 worldwide has died. That is because the virus is mild compared to SARS etc.

Actually, it does not appear related to its mildness. It is a quirk, which has been regarded as puzzling. Not only to those under 10 not die, very few even become ill, or even fewer infected. There are some differences between adults and children physiologically, and a fair number of diseases that affect one or the other more strongly regardless of apparent general health.

An example is some strains of Coxsackievirus, which isn’t generally even treated for children except with Tylenol and lasts about a week, but messes adults up for a couple of months. I know an athlete that caught it from a niece and got to the point of having to rest going up a flight of stairs (it is distantly related to polio, as I understand, but unlike polio seldom has permanent effects).

The mortality rate for the wuhan virus varies greatly by age group. Any number that doesn't take this into consideration is misleading - perhaps intentionally so - to the point where elderly persons may endanger themselves due to an incomplete picture of the risks they are facing.