I personally don’t know anyone who had died of Covid, but I’ve known several people who have been infected with Covid. My son, who is a healthcare worker and fully vaccinated, lives in Seattle, where masks and vaccine passports are mandated. I just found out my son tested positive with Covid today... while putting the final touches on this article. How timely. So despite wearing a mask all of the time, being fully vaccinated and living in a city with vaccine passports, he still got infected.
How serious are Covid infections in young people who are in good health? Is it very deadly? Here are the numbers of deaths per age group in the entire US since March 2020… (Data retrieved from the CDC website on December 30th 2021)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge
There have reportedly been 814,806 total Covid related deaths in the US (as of December 30th 2021).
Here is a breakdown of Covid related death by age.
I got the population # from these places:
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/jchs-housing_americas_older_adults_2014-ch2_0.pdf
https://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the-us-by-sex-and-age/
Looking at the chart we can conclude:
There is a very low risk of dying a Covid related death among people under the age of 40. People under the age of 40 (age 0-39) comprise only 2.5% of all Covid related deaths in the US. A full 75% of all Covid related deaths occur in people over the age of 65. More than ½ of all Covid related deaths in the US occur in people over the age of 75.
Here are the total number of young adults and children who have died in the lowest and highest vaccinated states since the Covid era began. The last column is the state’s health ranking.
(Data retrieved on December 30th 2021)
It’s good news that in eight of our ten states, no children age 0-17 died with/from Covid.
It is also easy to see the connection between a state’s underlying health and the number of young people who die with/from Covid.
Here is a link to find Covid death # under age 40 (0-39)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex
To find the health ranking:
https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/Overall_a/state/AL?edition-year=2021
Why we should not vaccinate children
The risk of dying from Covid among healthy children is essentially zero. A recent study out of Germany explains that there have been zero Covid deaths among healthy German and Swedish children nor do children spread Covid to others. The fear of kids killing grandparents is unfounded:
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/sweden-germany-no-deaths-children-due-covid
Also if you go to the Brownstone Institute’s website and look at the 400 studies, (they must have taken a great amount of time to compile) you will find many studies like this, which explain that children are not transmitters of Covid:
https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-400-studies-on-the-failure-of-compulsory-covid-interventions/
We know now that Covid related deaths occur almost always in people with comorbidities. Our leaders should have been telling us about the need for good health from the start of the Covid era: losing weight, eating healthily and taking vitamin D. They would have been easy talking points. However, our media and politicians never talk to us about improving our health or promote healthy living. Nearly everything we see in the media is fear.
It is not coincidental that states with low health rankings have more Covid deaths than states with high health ranking.
Public health means the good physical and mental health of all people in a community, a state or a country. It shouldn’t mean pushing an experimental vaccine with serious side effects and unknown (yet suspected) long-term effects on a population, let alone requiring a vaccine in order for people to work, see a movie, go to a restaurant or travel. Lockdowns, masks and vaccines won’t keep young people healthy, but freedom, friendship, good food, exercise and open happy schools will.