> Only 412 people age 17 or younger in the US have died from covid.
How many avoided death because they had good health care?
One of my pet peeves about this pandemic is how death metrics keep being pushed around, as if it was not a big deal.
If this pandemic had hit before we had modern health care facilities, it would have been comparable to the great pandemics in history.
Besides, what happened to the children that didn't die? What sort of issues this could cause that may affect their development? We don't know, so we should play it safe.
> from the vaccine
There isn't just one vaccine. There are several. If one is potentially causing issues, use another.
Also, what about heart problems from Covid-19, even among those not hospitalized?
I can't read your paywalled article, but I've found another link. The 'heart problems' are myocarditis, which in most cases is mild and _resolves_ by itself.
> How many avoided death because they had good health care?
If you are going play that game, you also need to ask how many died between March - June 2020 because of panicked doctors intubating everyone left and right with no one around to advocate for the patients.
> you also need to ask how many died between March - June 2020 because of panicked doctors intubating everyone left and right with no one around to advocate for the patients.
Not sure what this is implying, or what kind of advocacy would have made a better call. Doctors intubated people (despite a shortage of ventilators and the difficulty of triage) because the patients were struggling to breathe, and given available data the medical profession though it would help those patients recover. They've since learned more about the outcomes from this particular disease and when a ventilator is appropriate. Your comment makes it sound as though any idiot off the street could tell who should be on a ventilator and who should not.
How many avoided death because they had good health care?
One of my pet peeves about this pandemic is how death metrics keep being pushed around, as if it was not a big deal.
If this pandemic had hit before we had modern health care facilities, it would have been comparable to the great pandemics in history.
Besides, what happened to the children that didn't die? What sort of issues this could cause that may affect their development? We don't know, so we should play it safe.
> from the vaccine
There isn't just one vaccine. There are several. If one is potentially causing issues, use another.
Also, what about heart problems from Covid-19, even among those not hospitalized?
I can't read your paywalled article, but I've found another link. The 'heart problems' are myocarditis, which in most cases is mild and _resolves_ by itself.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...