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Study suggests Delta does not cause more severe childhood COVID

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No it doesn’t. Because the percentage of Child vaccinations greatly lag that of the adults. Therefore, there are simply less vaccinated youngsters.

You are not contradicting what is written in the article, only give an explanation why this happens, which

It is too early to conclude any real benefit. As they keep ignoring side effects.

But this is is already completely adequate data to debunk your previous comments that children have no risk from COVID, as evidenced by the last paragraph, where protection of children is taken as an important effect of community vaccination.

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That’s not a study, not scientific, not statistics

The report explicitly contradict you in the methods

Rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated.

A Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to compare medians; chi square or Fisher’s exact tests were used to compare proportions. Data were analyzed using SAS (version 9.4; SAS Institute); statistical significance was defined as p

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The difference between variants is similar to the difference between melanin levels in the skin of humans. Same virus, just appears a bit different.

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Good time to remind people that in Japan, there are zero Covid-19 deaths among those below 20 years of age,

And do you know what else has zero reports? people below 20 years of age that have any of the relatively common conditions of risk and that was infected by COVID, this can mean that those very numerous minors are still at very increased risk of complications and death and would benefit clearly from the vaccines.

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 For the healthy ones, the risk from the vaccine is much greater than any potential minor benefit that vaccine might provide.

But once again you fail to provide any evidence of this being more than just your own personal opinion, the available evidence do not support this conclusion.

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Good time to remind people that in Japan, there are zero Covid-19 deaths among those below 20 years of age, after over 210,000 confirmed infections (actual infection number is expected to be much higher).

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among 68 adolescents hospitalized…This meant the unvaccinated were 10.1 times more likely

That’s not a study, not scientific, not statistics, that’s just poor bs, and the greatest fun brings that decimal point number based on those low insufficient data points. lol

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people below 20 years of age that have any of the relatively common conditions of risk and that was infected by COVID, this can mean that those very numerous minors are still at very increased risk of complications and death and would benefit clearly from the vaccines.

Yeah, those few who are obese, diabetic, have cancer ... might consider getting the vaccine. For the healthy ones, the risk from the vaccine is much greater than any potential minor benefit that vaccine might provide.

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This meant the unvaccinated were 10.1 times more likely to be hospitalized compared to vaccinated.

No it doesn’t. Because the percentage of Child vaccinations greatly lag that of the adults. Therefore, there are simply less vaccinated youngsters.

It is too early to conclude any real benefit. As they keep ignoring side effects.

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