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All cause mortality from birth to age 18 is 865 per 100,000. An additional 1 per 100,000 is unnoticeable.
by baggy_trough 5y ago
All cause mortality from birth to age 18 is 865 per 100,000. An additional 1 per 100,000 is unnoticeable.
- maxerickson 5y agoThe comparison to make isn't to the risk of dying from everything else, it's to the risk from vaccination. Which there isn't really anything published for young children yet, but for age groups where use of a vaccine has been approved in the US (12+ more or less), the risk of severe side effects from vaccination is lower than the risk of severe illness.
- baggy_trough 5y agoI was responding to the description of the Covid death rate in children as a "massive risk". Clearly it is not.
- maxerickson 5y agoSure, the other poster wasn't making the right point either.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoAnnualized, that's about 25 per 100,000. So COVID won't be the leading cause of death, but it's high enough to be classified as a major source of child fatalities. For something easily preventable once the vaccine is available.