67 deaths under 19 is the last figure I heard
Give that man a cigar!
Under 19 years of age is .1% or .001 of the total.
Kids have almost no risk from COVID.
67 deaths under 19 is the last figure I heard
This depends. Are we talking about separating flu deaths from COVID, or counting them all as COVID?
67 deaths under 19 is the last figure I heard
They use tests in hospitals that very clearly separate COVID and Flu based deaths.
And once again-- the nonsense that COVID tests could not tell the difference between Covid and the Flu has been debunked multiple times as pure nonsense.
I'm not suggesting, nor have I ever suggested that tests "Cannot tell the difference".
However, there are quite a few, shall we call them "incentives" in reporting stuff as COVID.
Still, an extremely few children are at risk of COVID, which is the point you're trying to avoid here.
There are well over 400 deaths of children from Covid in the U.S.
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3
148 deaths for ages 0 to 5
338 deaths for ages 5 to 18.
A number that is accelerating quickly over the past eight weeks with Delta.
400/669,205 = .000597
vs:
Leading causes of death
Children aged 1-4 years
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality data (2019) via CDC WONDER
- Accidents (unintentional injuries)
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Cancer
Children aged 5-9 years
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality data (2019) via CDC WONDER
- Accidents (unintentional injuries)
- Cancer
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
Children aged 10-14 years
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality data (2019) via CDC WONDER
- Accidents (unintentional injuries)
- Intentional self-harm (suicide)
- Cancer
Feel free to see if that 400 cases is even in the same galaxy as other leading causes of childhood mortality.
Sadly your definition of "at risk" only includes if a child is dead. You don't care a damn about the many child hospitalizations (noting that pediatric ICUs are full in many states), nor do you care about Long Covid. To you -- if the kid ain't dead then they ain't at risk. Very Sad.
And once again --- Sadly your definition of "at risk" only includes if a child is dead. You don't care a damn about the many child hospitalizations (noting that pediatric ICUs are full in many states), nor do you care about Long Covid. To you -- if the kid ain't dead then they ain't at risk. Very Sad.
And once again --- Sadly your definition of "at risk" only includes if a child is dead. You don't care a damn about the many child hospitalizations (noting that pediatric ICUs are full in many states), nor do you care about Long Covid. To you -- if the kid ain't dead then they ain't at risk. Very Sad.