Does letting kids get COVID-19 help build immunity among the wider society?

The Quebec government has suggested that reopening schools and daycares could be a way to both kick-start its economy and slow the transmission of COVID-19 in the province. Quebec's public health director, Horacio Arruda, told a news conference last Friday it was "very excessively rare" for children to develop severe symptoms from COVID-19. Allowing them to catch the virus and become immunized would help the wider society, he said. "Because the more children will be, in my opinion, naturally imm