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No, the point is about the total number of children that might suffer severe consequences, globally, not about the population fraction in one place. (And it's orthogonal to reasonable & important debate about global prioritization of the vulnerable while supplies are limited.)
After upfront costs (mostly done in the present case) both benefits and risks scale with population size. The size of the world's population does not feature prominently in the analysis of cost-benefit tradeoffs of interventions in the way I think he is suggesting.
For example, the wisdom of closing schools in response to an epidemic might depend on various characteristics of a country/pathogen. The overall size of the country's population, however, would not usually feature strongly in the calculation unless as a proxy for other variables.
In an open system, pushing on a bag of water on one side distributes the pressure elsewhere. It's a crude metaphor, but after 15 months of this, I would appreciate seeing more multi-dimensional takes on COVID-19.
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