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Deaths from COVID ‘incredibly rare’ among children


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2021 Jul 28, 4:08am   247 views  7 comments

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w


Studies find that overall risk of death or severe disease from COVID-19 is very low in kids.

A comprehensive analysis of hospital admissions and reported deaths across England suggests that COVID-19 carries a lower risk of dying or requiring intensive care among children and young people than was previously thought.

In a series of preprints published on medRxiv1–3, a team of researchers picked through all hospital admissions and deaths reported for people younger than 18 in England. The studies found that COVID-19 caused 25 deaths in that age group between March 2020 and February 2021.

About half of those deaths were in individuals with an underlying complex disability with high health-care needs, such as tube feeding or assistance with breathing.

The studies did not evaluate rates of less-severe illness or debilitating ‘long COVID’ symptoms that can linger months after the acute phase of the infection has past. “The low rate of severe acute disease is important news, but this does not have to mean that COVID does not matter to children,” says paediatrician Danilo Buonsenso at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. “Please, let’s keep attention — as much as is feasible — on immunization.”

In one of the preprints, the researchers trawled for published accounts of COVID-19 among children and young people, and ultimately analysed data from 57 studies and 19 countries3. They then picked apart risk factors for severe disease and death from the data.

Study findings

Some conditions — including obesity and cardiac or neurological conditions — were associated with a higher risk of death or intensive-care treatment, the researchers found. But the absolute increase in risk was very small, study author Rachel Harwood, a paediatric surgical registrar at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, UK, told reporters at a media briefing.

For the other two preprints, the researchers focused on England, drawing on nationwide health-care data on intensive-care admissions and deaths among those under 18 years old. The team found that, of 6,338 hospital admissions for COVID-19, 259 children and young people required treatment in paediatric intensive-care units.

Black children were more likely than their white counterparts to require intensive care, both for COVID-19 and for paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a rare syndrome associated with coronavirus infection. But overall, the need for intensive care was “incredibly rare” among these patients, says study author Joseph Ward of the University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Of 3,105 deaths from all causes among the 12 million or so people under 18 in England between March 2020 and February 2021, 25 were attributable to COVID-19 — a rate of about 2 for every million people in this age range. None had asthma or type-1 diabetes, the authors note, and about half had conditions that put them at a higher risk than healthy children of dying from any cause.

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1   Patrick   2021 Jul 28, 4:09am  


Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
Jul 19
Just to clearly state- In my opinion, the ability to have full informed consent by adults/guardians for pediatric participation in COVID vax trials has been compromised by all of this public messaging in mass media and by the government. I believe that coercion has happened.


https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD
2   Karloff   2021 Jul 28, 10:29am  

They're chomping at the bit to get the <12 age range injected now, so you can see the pattern in the emerging legacy news stories repeating as it did for each previous age range. They are all pushing the idea that kids are now more at risk, because... delta.. or something.
3   Patrick   2021 Jul 28, 10:57am  

This is just outright criminal.
4   mich   2021 Jul 28, 11:08am  

I just wonder what they will do when young children at up. Or if we see reactions like we have with adults. scary times we living in!
5   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2021 Jul 28, 11:10am  

The people who are worried about their kids having Covid are nuts and clearly don’t follow the science.
6   WookieMan   2021 Jul 28, 12:28pm  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
The people who are worried about their kids having Covid are nuts and clearly don’t follow the science.

We need to stop saying science. Information would be a better word. They're using that word (science) as a battering ram to make you think Covid is dangerous. Make you think you're stupid.

Covid is not remotely dangerous. Even to unhealthy people. But "science" gets tossed about. They've proven nothing and the FDA won't even approve the "fix" #vaccine for it. There's no science.
7   Patrick   2021 Jul 28, 11:11pm  

https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/21/johns-hopkins-study-found-zero-covid-deaths-among-healthy-kids/

Johns Hopkins Study Found Zero COVID Deaths Among Healthy Kids
Rather than acknowledge science, Dr. Makary says the CDC continues to use 'flimsy evidence' to push the COVID vaccine upon children.
Audrey UnverferthBy Audrey Unverferth
JULY 21, 2021
A team of Johns Hopkins researchers recently reported that when studying a group of about 48,000 children, they found zero COVID deaths among healthy kids, but the Centers for Disease Control doesn’t care.

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