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It's not settled yet, but it's pretty likely that males under 12 are at still higher risk of a severe course of illness (hospital care) than they are at risk of
by maxerickson 5y ago
It's not settled yet, but it's pretty likely that males under 12 are at still higher risk of a severe course of illness (hospital care) than they are at risk of myocarditis following vaccination.
- raxxorrax 5y agoAnd how many would that would be? 15 people? Please, elaborate in regard to the demographics of any country of your choice.
- maxerickson 5y agoI am (somewhat speculatively) comparing rates of a specific demographic. I expect it will be true everywhere that vaccinating younger males leads to an overall reduction in harm to the vaccinated.
- concinds 5y agoAt most, moderately higher risk, and that's assuming 100% would get covid (just like the government wants 100% to take the vaccine). You can't compare infection vs vaccine if only 50% would ever have caught Covid (without even counting children with previous infections who are practically guaranteed to never be hospitalized from it), while 100% will get vaccinated; the risk-benefit is likely to shift into the mostly-nefarious territory. Also keep in mind that risk-of-myocarditis-from-infection is overestimated, because plenty of people are utterly asymptomatic and aren't counted in the stats.
- maxerickson 5y agoCorrect, higher risk from infection than from vaccination.