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This should not be concerning. Covid is endemic. Pretty much all of us are going to get it sooner or later. If you are vaccinated, you will likely fight it o
by tomohawk 5y ago
This should not be concerning.
Covid is endemic. Pretty much all of us are going to get it sooner or later.
If you are vaccinated, you will likely fight it off, and likely not even know it. Or, you may have mild symptoms. Only in rare cases will you get serious illness.
Ditto if you are a child, as covid goes after the ACE2 receptor that is activated at puberty, so children are at very slight risk.
As of today, there have been 385 covid "involved" (not same as caused) deaths in the US since the start of the pandemic that are for ages 0 - 17.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...
Thats compared to 54,062 deaths during the same timeframe from all causes in that age group.
- angelzen 5y agoNitpick: 0-17 data conflates infant morality with children mortality. 30k of the 54k deaths are in the 0-1 age group. Alternate: For 5-14 age group, there have been 131 covid 'involved' deaths out of 9,038 total deaths, and unclear what the co-morbidities were. No reason to get concerned, no reason to mandate vaccines / masks for kids. https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age/9bhg-hcku https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...