Can people check my logic? The risk of children dying from COVID is about 1 in a million. The risk of dying from current COVID vaccines is about 1 in a million. What is the logic for vaccinating children?
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Now, the risk for a child of catching COVID-19 in the SHORT TERM is low. However, as you progress towards t

, the risk for any individual of having at least one COVID-19 infection approaches 1 -
So therefore, in the long term it's not unreasonable to compare the risk for a child from a vaccine directly with the risk of COVID-19. And in this case, the risk of a vaccine is far lower than infection
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We are doing absurd things with health and comparing extremely rare events because this is mass hysteria. We’re depending on so many assumptions because we’re terrified of a disease that is very different today than we thought it was.
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Indeed. The risk of hospitalization and dying from COVID at all ages is a factor of 2.5 or so higher than for the Wuhan-1 strain that these data refer to; this strengthens your argument empirically.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.05.21260050v1 …
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In USA death rate from vaccines seems to be zero for kids. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e1.htm …pic.twitter.com/eKSRnQ39Pe
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Do you not also see evidence that the IFR declines over time? Obviously, first wave data will show higher IFR, but the cumulative data over multiple waves (when t->inf and all kids get COVID) will have a much lower IFR.
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IFR has probably declined due to improved treatments, but also may have increased due to variants. Hard to estimate the net effect on risk of death
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Surely the data is unreliable. There's too many assumptions to be granted. 10 year olds don't get tested as frequently as adults. So kids that do get tested are more likely to be ill. Also, there's blatant bias against attribution of adverse vaccine effects.
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