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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Worth noting that any scenario in Australia that includes "reopening" without large-scale interventions will be quite close to an unmitigated epidemic without vaccinations, particularly with more transmissible strains
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It also ignores the benefits of stewardship of a world in which COVID risks becoming endemic. Expanding herd immunity to children, and squashing this disease so they're not dealing with it for their rest of their lives is an often unmentioned benefit, as is, fewer dead parents.
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thanks for linking that original paper - useful. is there something similar for hospitalisation rate?
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, the risk for any individual of having at least one COVID-19 infection approaches 1