With vaccines now available to everybody in America age 17 and over, two numbers may be of most interest: How many vaccinated people have died from the virus and how many of those under age 17 have died.
You probably will be surprised at how extraordinarily low both numbers are:
-Of the 115 million Americans fully vaccinated, 223 have subsequently died.
-Of the 73 million Americans under age 17, 287 deaths have been COVID-related.
Think about that in terms of probability:
-The chances of dying even if you were vaccinated to date have been .0002%. That’s two ten-thousandths of one percent.
-The chances of a child under 17 dying from COVID since the start of the pandemic have been .0004%. That’s four ten-thousandths of one percent.
This is not intended to be a comprehensive statement about COVID risks or an apples-to-apples comparison about death rates for the vaccinated to death rates for children. Risks for individuals are very specific and depend on their particular profile based on age and comorbidities. This is intended only as a simple report on the numbers shown and a comment on how low those particular numbers are.
The numbers above are from Center for Disease Control’s website and are as of May 10 for the vaccinated and May 12 for children. The death count for vaccinated people includes death from all causes, not just COVID.
-Mark Glennon
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
OH MY GOD!!! Children 17 and under have TWICE THE CHANCE OF DYING from coronavirus than vaccinated adults!
nice try fascist, try 2 million adverse reactions and 1 million dead and permanently disables according do VAERS which reports 1% of actual adverse reactions.
My first suggestion for you would be to learn how to read.
Say what? How did the CDC arrive at those numbers? Why no mention of VAERS?
“One of the main limitations of VAERS data is that it cannot determine if the vaccine caused the reported adverse event,” reads its website. “This limitation has caused confusion in the publicly available data from VAERS WONDER, specifically regarding the number of reported deaths. There have been instances where people have misinterpreted reports of deaths following vaccination as deaths caused by the vaccines; that is not accurate.” So when VAERS says it has received 2,509 reports of death among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine as of March 29, that does not mean that those deaths were caused by the vaccine. In fact,… Read more »
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