ThatOwlWoman (07-28-2021)
As the delta variant sweeps across the United States and increases hospitalizations and deaths, far too many right-wingers are falling for anti-vaccine nonsense. Influential pundits and politicians on the right are undermining the push to vaccinate enough people to achieve herd immunity.
While the wackos are so concerned about imaginary microchips and vaccine conspiracies, some local governments and health departments are urging vaccinated people to wear their face masks in public indoor spaces. You know, to help protect the unvaccinated people from themselves.
And since anti-vaxxers have effectively blocked herd immunity for now, they have also increased the risk for children under 12 who can’t yet get vaccinated against COVID-19. Nearly all of the recent deaths from coronavirus were preventable.
Sure, I feel bad for people who chose not to get vaccinated and are dying, but I feel enraged that they have put children at greater risk and prolonged this damn pandemic.
http://www.markfiore.com/july-sept-2...dumb-isnt-free
ThatOwlWoman (07-28-2021)
Got anything to say about blacks and Hispanics Kenny? Don't bother I know the answer already. Oh and children's deaths from Covid are incredibly rare but you just love to grossly exaggerate and downright lie, don't you?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-wA comprehensive analysis of hospital admissions and reported deaths across England suggests that COVID-19 carries a lower risk of dying or requiring intensive care among children and young people than was previously thought.
In a series of preprints published on medRxiv1–3, a team of researchers picked through all hospital admissions and deaths reported for people younger than 18 in England. The studies found that COVID-19 caused 25 deaths in that age group between March 2020 and February 2021.
About half of those deaths were in individuals with an underlying complex disability with high health-care needs, such as tube feeding or assistance with breathing.
The studies did not evaluate rates of less-severe illness or debilitating ‘long COVID’ symptoms that can linger months after the acute phase of the infection has past. “The low rate of severe acute disease is important news, but this does not have to mean that COVID does not matter to children,” says paediatrician Danilo Buonsenso at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. “Please, let’s keep attention — as much as is feasible — on immunization.”
In one of the preprints, the researchers trawled for published accounts of COVID-19 among children and young people, and ultimately analysed data from 57 studies and 19 countries3. They then picked apart risk factors for severe disease and death from the data.
Last edited by cancel2 2022; 07-28-2021 at 06:14 AM.
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