Revisiting the Greatest Covid Lie of All …
Covid is a ‘top killer of children’
I read today that a new RSV vaccine has just been approved by the FDA for expectant mothers. I know from previous articles I’ve written that an RSV vaccine for children is also on the fast track to get on the all-important childhood immunization schedule.
I’m sure we’ll all read about how RSV is one of the greatest killers of children … and thus we have yet another vaccine that’s a Godsend. (The above-linked Wall Street Journal story tells us approximately 300 children under the age of 5 die from RSV each year).
Who knows if this data is true or not?
Speaking for myself, I haven’t forgotten how the Covid vaccine was pushed with the the extremely-dubious assertion that Covid was one of the “Top 8” killers of children.
I knew that statement was brazen disinformation because I’d researched actual children’s mortality from Covid while writing this story for uncoverDC.com.
In this article, I simply highlighted the key findings from the “most comprehensive” study of its kind on Covid mortality among children. The study, produced by a team of prestigious academics in the UK, found that only 25 children in the entire UK died “from” Covid in the fist year of the pandemic.
However, the headline that should have gone viral to parents across the world is that only six “healthy” children in the entire UK died “from” Covid.
Today, I’m going to revisit the findings of that study as this might cause a few mothers to question the pronouncements of our so-called public health experts, none of whom have seen a vaccine they don’t want every child to get, regardless of how unnecessary or what the long-term negative health effects might be.
The study’s key information and findings …
Approximately 12 million children (age 0 to 17) live in the UK.
The UK researchers were able to look at hospital diagnostic codes and find out how many children died “from” or “with” Covid in the first 12 months of the pandemic.
Here’s what study authors found and reported (CYP = “Children and Young Persons.”)
N = 61 - UK children who died in the first 12 months of the pandemic after testing positive via a PCR test.
Significantly, researchers subtracted 36 “Covid deaths” from this figure because they found these children actually died from some other cause. Language from the study:
“This is the first study to differentiate between CYP who have died of SARS-CoV-2 infection rather than died with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test as a coincidental finding. Our result is 60% lower than the figures derived from positive tests thereby markedly reducing the estimated number of CYP who are potentially at risk of death during this pandemic.”
N = 25 - UK children who actually died “from” Covid in the first 12 months of the pandemic.
But researchers looked even harder and found that 19 of these 25 Covid victims suffered from severe “life-limiting” medical conditions.
N = 19 = Children who died from Covid but had other major medical issues.
Subtracting the deaths of children who suffered from serious co-morbid conditions left researchers with …
N = 6 - “Healthy” children in the UK who died from Covid in the fist 12 months of the pandemic.
I made some additional assumptions/extrapolations …
To be very conservative, I assumed that 500,000 children (approximately 4 percent of the UK’s children) do suffer from serious “life-limiting” medical conditions (the real percentage is no doubt lower than 1 percent).
This would give us …
N = 11.5 million - Approximate number of “healthy” children in the UK.
We can now calculate the mortality risk for healthy children in the UK.
Covid Mortality Math: Six (6) Covid deaths divided by 11.5 million “healthy” children = Covid mortality of 0.000052 percent.
According to this extremely thorough (albeit ignored) study, the odds a healthy UK child would die from Covid in the first 12 months of the pandemic were 1-in-1.92 million. (Math: 11.5 million healthy children/6 Covid deaths).
I decided to do some politically-incorrect analysis …
To wander into politically incorrect territory, one can also calculate mortality risk by the race of children.
For some (undeniable) reason, Covid kills a much higher percentage of Blacks and Hispanics. This is true with children and adults.
Here’s a story from April 2020 that proves that the disproportionate deaths among African Americans was already known (even though the authors of this article suggest that the CDC was already covering up these racial statistics).
The authors of the UK study also point out the racial differences in mortality rates:
“CYP >10 years, of Asian and Black ethnic backgrounds, and with co-morbidities were over-represented compared to other children.”
The authors also stressed that the absolute numbers of minority children who died from Covid was also minute. Still, the figures are strikingly minute for white children.
From further extrapolations, I concluded that only two, perhaps three, healthy white children in the entire United Kingdom died “from” Covid in the first 12 months of the pandemic.
Since there are more than 10 million healthy white children in the UK, I concluded the chance a healthy white child would die from Covid were approximately 1-in-5 million. As a percentage, this mortality risk is 0.00002. (One has to go out to the fifth decimal point to find a “risk” that is not zero.)
Why I did this research …
One reason I embarked on this research is that I was simply trying to ascertain accurate Covid information to inform any decision I made on whether my two young children should get the Covid vaccine.
I was doing my own research and did not automatically trust the proclamations of the CDC or the pediatrician groups. I know I’m not supposed to question my betters (the experts), but I did it anyway because my own children’s lives might be at stake.
I happen to be Caucasian, just like my two children. Thankfully our children are healthy and do not suffer from some terrible “life-limiting” medical condition.
Again, I was simply looking to find the mortality risk of my own two children if they didn’t get this “vaccine.” Thanks to this bold study, I found the answer I was seeking.
The data shows that my children might indeed die from Covid … but if they did they would be the one person in a cohort of 4,999,999 children who did.
To provide a little context, the odds a random person would get struck by lightning in a given year are about 1-in-750,000. The odds I might hit the lottery jackpot in neighboring Georgia are probably 1-in-3-million.
Anyway, you won’t be surprised to learn that I chose to not get my children vaccinated.
For me, becoming an “anti-vaxxer” was a no-brainer especially when I know the odds my children might contract potentially fatal myocarditis (or other serious vaccine injuries) might be as low as 1-in-3,000 (perhaps lower).
(The headline from the above-linked article notes that cases of myocarditis from vaccines are “rare” in children. If “rare” = a “1-in-3,000 risk,” how should one label a “1-in-5-million” risk?)
Even today, I occasionally read that the risks to children from Covid is “rare” or “small” or not as high as for, say, very old people or the morbidly obese.
But that’s poor word-smithing - intentionally so in my opinion.
When the risk of death for the largest population of children in America is 1-in-5 million, maybe journalists should consider more accurate risk modifiers, such as:
“virtually non-existent” … “almost unheard of” … “the rarest of anomalies” … “certainly nothing for parents to worry about” …. “for all practical purposes … zero.”
Anyway, when I kept reading that Covid was the “Top 8” killer of children in America, my go-to thought was, “That’s what they say.”
I guess the same pediatrician groups and the UK’s version of the CDC were spreading the same fear-mongering COVID disinformation as in America.
I’m sure Catherine, Princess of Wales was worried to death about getting her children vaccinated because she knew that Covid was one of the “top 8 killers of children in the UK.”
It probably never occurred to the princess to ask, “six deaths is enough to make the Top 8?” (Actually, I’d bet 100 pounds Princess Kate, just like 99 percent of UK mothers, never saw this study.)
I’m tempted to finish this column by saying, “none of this matters.” The narrative - as bogus as it was - worked as intended. Hundreds of millions of parents rushed out to get children vaccines they didn’t need.
But the thing is … the truth should matter.
You're right that "covid killing children" is the greatest covid lie of all. A vicious and disgraceful lie.
All studies show that very, very few - if any - healthy children died from covid. Most of the low number of child deaths were to children with other serious co-morbidities.
CDC fatality rate for Ages 0-19 is 0.003%
Dr. John Ioannidis - the gold standard study - gives the fatality rate for Ages 0-19 as 0.0003%
The European Journal of Epidemiology gives the fatality rate for Ages 0-19 as 0.004%
All other studies show comparable numbers.
EXCELLENT article, Bill! You are superb researcher and also excellent at gathering statistics. My virologist husband worked with coronavirus (which is what covid was originally called) when he worked at Public Health Dept. of PA years ago. He says it was one form of the common cold that caused alot of respiratory problems. Kids don't normally get sick and die unless they have another comorbidity, they are protected by their mother's immune system from when they were in utero. No one should be jabbed under the age of 6 minimum because their immune systems aren't developed enough to handle it - which is why we're seeing epidemic proportions of autism, as part of the immune system is in the brain. You've gathered enough stats to prove what I'm saying right here. We need more researchers who are writers like you. And if you can figure this out, why the heck can't the CDC figure it out?????? Truth is no one should have died from covid except those with impaired immunity/comorbidities. Those who died were either jabbed or otherwise killed with remdesivir and ventilators or some such.