…from the JAMA Network, measured in the 12 months from August 2021. First, some mortality rates for children:
- 3 per 100 000 for those younger than 1 year [with their unformed immune systems]
- 6 per 100 000 for those aged 1 to 4 years
- 4 per 100 000 for those aged 5 to 9 years
- 5 per 100 000 for those aged 10 to 14 years
This works out to a mortality rate of around 0.5 per 100,000 for children 14 years old and younger. For 15-19 year olds—the remaining category of “children”—the mortality rate was 1.8 per 100,000.
The leading causes of death among children in 2019, pre-Virus, included these, and their rates, which were changed, if at all, only by the rate of lockdown and school closure:
- perinatal conditions (12.7 per 100 000)
- unintentional injuries (9.1 per 100 000)
- congenital malformations or deformations (6.5 per 100 000)
The Virus represented only 2% of all the causes of child deaths in the report’s period. In contrast, the mortality rate from the Virus for all Virus cases—which includes adults—was 109 per 100,000 population.
The risk to children from side effects of the various Wuhan Virus vaccines is very small, even as some of those side effects can be quite severe. The risk to children from going unvaccinated is just as small, if not smaller. That makes the risk to children from vaccine side effects not worth the gain in mitigating mortality from an “unprotected” infection. Furthermore, since the vaccines introduce parts of the Virus particles into the body to stimulate an immune reaction and antibody construction, that would seem to make the vaccines especially risky for those babies, who have no effective immune system to be stimulated and so cannot counteract even the partial Virus particles.