FACTS NOT FEAR… The following figures come from Health Canada | Covid and Kids

FACTS NOT FEAR…

The following figures come from Health Canada’s database on COVID-19. (Link to database: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html?stat=num&measure=deaths)

Of the 350,000 cases for Canadians under 20, only 1,824 have been hospitalized. A significant number of these were incidental hospitalizations — meaning they went to hospital because they were suffering from something completely unrelated but happened to test positive for the virus during routine screening.

Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 17 COVID-related deaths in Canada among children and teenagers. Not 17,000, not 1,700. Just 17.

That makes up 0.1% of all COVID deaths in Canada. The COVID case-fatality rate for Canadians under the age of 20, therefore, is 0.002%.

COVID is not a threat to kids. It wouldn’t even make the list of the top 10 causes of death for children.

The numbers show that a fully vaccinated adult is still at a much greater risk of being hospitalized or dying from COVID than an unvaccinated child.

Highlights above from this article:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/malcolm-lets-look-at-the-actual-numbers-about-kids-and-covid