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27. WHO

Reply to womanofthehills (Reply #10)

Wed Jun 23, 2021, 04:58 PM

Jun 2021

is operating under an assumption that there aren't enough vaccines for the 50+.

We know the risks of 18-22 athletes who test positive for the original virus (not Delta, etc.) are fairly high - 2% - for myocarditis (Big10 study).

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CDC safety group says there's a likely link between rare heart inflammation in young people -jab [View all] womanofthehills Jun 2021 OP

1200 cases out of about 200 million shots administered uponit7771 Jun 2021 #1

Untrue FBaggins Jun 2021 #2

200 Million? Zeitghost Jun 2021 #3

Innumeracy is deadly. 1200 cases of myocarditis, versus tens of millions of COVID hospitalizations. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #4

Majority of hospitalizations and deaths are the elderly womanofthehills Jun 2021 #11

Yeah, so screw 'em. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #13

THIS. roamer65 Jun 2021 #18

Children should not be sacrificial lambs for the elderly womanofthehills Jun 2021 #24

I agree; they should not be sacrificed to COVID to appease antivaxxers. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #26

but ... they are only beginning to vax kids - the numbers can climb fast womanofthehills Jun 2021 #7

30% of 12 - 15 yr olds have had 1 shot & 41% of 16-17 yr olds have had 1 shot this article is uponit7771 Jun 2021 #8

That means it would have been 10 times worse if they caught the virus. roamer65 Jun 2021 #5

World Health Organization says kids at low risk for getting Covid womanofthehills Jun 2021 #10

Delta and Delta plus? roamer65 Jun 2021 #12

The variants are hitting kids much harder than the original strain. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #14

Higher affinity for ACE2 receptors means less of them required to sustain an infection. roamer65 Jun 2021 #17

WHO Sgent Jun 2021 #27

10 times? What really has the higher risk for teens? Covid or the vaccine? forthemiddle Jun 2021 #15

Me too. My kids are all adults now, but if I had younger kids, I might be wary to get them the liberal_mama Jun 2021 #23

What's the recovery rate for Covid vs heart inflammation? Throck Jun 2021 #6

WHO statement on this womanofthehills Jun 2021 #9

I was awakened this morning with a text from my daughter - Ms. Toad Jun 2021 #16

Damn, I pray it clears up fast uponit7771 Jun 2021 #19

Me too. Ms. Toad Jun 2021 #21

... The CDC said that patients with heart inflammation following vaccination generally recover struggle4progress Jun 2021 #20

And - as they approariately did with J&J and the rare clotting disorder - Ms. Toad Jun 2021 #22

But ...the parents say the kids are on on 5 different meds womanofthehills Jun 2021 #25