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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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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The focus on mortality, which is rare in kids (but higher frequency than the OP wronlgy suggests) is false narrative. The risks are far more extensive, from long covid, to loss of parents, grandparents, community members, endemic disease, and need for persistent countermeasures.
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, the risk for any individual of having at least one COVID-19 infection approaches 1