Sunetra Gupta, May 21 2020, "the epidemic has largely come and is on its way out in UK" https://unherd.com/2020/05/oxford-doubles-down-sunetra-gupta-interview/

Death toll in the UK in May 2020: 36,000

Death toll in the UK today: 209,000

Jay Bhattacharya, May 24, 2020 "If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified. But there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high." https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464

Global death toll May 2020: 390,000

Global death toll today: 6,800,000

Martin Kulldorff, December 17, 2021 ...children's "Covid mortality risk is miniscule and less than the already low risk from the annual influenza." https://brownstone.org/articles/vaccines-save-lives/

Pediatric deaths from influenza 2020-21: 1

Pediatric deaths from covid 2020-21 >500