It appears the COVID-19 vaccines will be approved for young children.
Vaccines were first approved for those over 65, the highest risk group, and have been moving down in ages.
Although there is a lot of information about COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations provided daily, what isn’t highly publicized by the mainstream media is the risk of death from COVID-19 for younger people.
According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) COVID-19 dashboard at https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard/cases-demographics, the relationship between age and dying of COVID-19 is dramatic.
The NCDHHS website states that 51 percent of all COVID deaths in North Carolina were people over 75 years old, 24 percent were those between 65 and 74, 19 percent were those between 50 and 64, and 6 percent were those between 25 and 49. If you do the math, that equals 100 percent, which means, according to the NCDHHS, 0 percent of people under the age of 24 have died from COVID.
However, that 0 percent is misleading. The actual figures according to the NCDHHS are that in the age group between 18 and 24, a total of 41 people have died during the COVID-19 pandemic. For those in the 15 to 17 age group, six have died; in the 10 to 14 age group, one has died; and for children aged 5 to 9, a total of three have died.
Those figures are for the entire COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 through Oct. 25, 2021. The fact that COVID deaths are listed for the entire pandemic and not by calendar year makes it somewhat difficult to compare to deaths from other causes.
However, the number of deaths from other causes for the year 2019 are available, although the age ranges don’t match up with the way the COVID deaths are calculated.
For example, according to the NCDHHS, in the 15 to 24 age group in 2019, the last year for which data is published, 251 died from motor vehicle accidents, 231 died from other accidents, 196 died from homicides, 181 died from suicide, 44 died from cancer and 27 died from heart disease, and a total of 1,094 died from all causes.
In the 5 to 14 age group, 32 died from motor vehicle accidents, 23 from other accidents, 22 from cancer, 15 from suicide, 11 from homicide, 10 from birth defects, 5 from diseases of the heart and 5 from pneumonia and influenza, and a total of 168 died from all causes.
The urgency for vaccination younger children is to reduce transmission rates. It is well understood that children are at significantly lower risk of both death and hospitalization from covid. However, they are more likely to be asymptomatic and therefore more likely to spread the virus to more vulnerable parts of the population. So far this has been managed by other prevention measures such as masks, increased testing etc… Would be nice to get them vaccinated and put end to mask mandates in schools.
One word- F A R C E
I work in a “high risk” profession where we get tested sometimes multiple times per week. Please count the number of my co-workers and family members who have tested positive. They all add up to ZERO. Sure we have friends and acquaintances who have gotten it, some have died, that’s the sad reality of any pandemic in recorded history. We may all catch it tomorrow, that’s also part of how a pandemic works. The Amish/Mennonite communities faced it head on, even shared communion cups which obviously sped up the process, they refuse the “vaccines” and say that yes, a few died, but they didn’t shut anything down, don’t wear muzzles, made more money while everyone else shut down, and are doing great. Florida finally opened up in August, let the thing run it’s course, as expected cases spiked and peaked in early September, and by late October they now have the lowest infection rate per capita in the lower 48.
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How conservative of you to openly admit you care only for yourself and not the community more broadly. I will make that down as reason #132 why I left the republican party.
Thats nice. I left the republican party years ago as well. We should get together, sing songs and make assumptions one day.
No. That is nonsense.
Sorry Chris…but if the teachers and adults are vaccinated, why would the kids need it to prevent the spread to the vaccinated adults? Isnt that the point of vaccination?
Vaccinations accelerate transmission of the virus, as the Israelis have learned (to their dismay).
This has all been obvious since April 2020 based on a quick glance at the CDC website. Where has the press been?
0 percent of people under the age of 24 have died from COVID. Sounds like they really need that vaccine.
They don’t…but the community needs them to as younger children have always been the great spreaders of viruses via overcrowded classrooms.
How does an unvaccinated person spread it to a vaccinated person? What’s the point of vaccination if it does not stop infection? This logic circle you keep spouting makes no sense.
Logic is a stranger to Chris the Blowhard.
There you go trying to use common sense & logic again. Some folks just don’t get it. Hang in there Don, you are not alone. Many of us are just as confused as to why so many are swayed so easily by utter nonsense. But don’t dare say anything because you’re wrong and made up facts are right because some board of directors, the head of a government agency, or a “doctor” said so. I’m so glad our ancestors didn’t listen to the King.
Keep waiting. Chris is searching Facebook and Yahoo news to find his response.
Mark my words – more children will die from these vaccines, that would have ever died from covid.
You are correct Sir.
Any of us who have children who have been injured by vaccines have a very good reason to keep them away from this crap. A son who within 48 hrs stops speaking and doesn’t do so again for 2.5 years, and required almost a full decade of neurology visits, speech, occupational, feeding therapies, & almost constant care to recover. We were VERY fortunate. Many never recover. So when you hear me tell folks where to stick their jab, I mean it, and with unwavering passion!
Someone clearly has very limited understanding of statistics and how it can confuse cause and effect. But I don’t generally expect much more than ignorance from the anti-vax crowd.
What a breathtakingly callous and supercilious response to the tragedy he and his family have suffered. And you say Republicans have no compassion.
Is this just an ugly thought in your head or do you have anything of value to back that up? Quoting other people who have no evidence doesn’t count either.
You’re absolutely right, Chris – it is an ugly thought. But, as it is just a prediction, the evidence will be apparent in the near future.
I sincerely hope I’m wrong.