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Healthy children are at approximately one-in-a-million risk of dying from covid-19 if they get infected. It's more dangerous for you to drive someplace with your kid than for your kid to remain unvaccinated.

Children in risk groups should of course get vaccinated.

But we're much better off making sure the limited supply of vaccines go to older people in other parts of the world than to healthy kids in the developed world that don't need them.

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Source for 1/1000000 death risk for children infected by covid-19 delta variant?

There is no source, if it was true children simply wouldn't have died in numbers high enough to detect so far.

About 400 American children have died with the majority having existing comorbidities. 50% of children have "recovered" from Covid and would already possess some immunity. Certainly its questionable whether 99.9% most kids stand to benefit much from the vaccine anyway.

Note that I said healthy children. Pretty much all of the children and teenagers who have died in the US, and elsewhere, have been in a risk group. Diabetes, usually.

If your child is in a risk group, you should be worried, and you should want that child to get vaccinated as soon as possible.

If not, it's extremely irrational to worry about your kid dying of covid because that's in lightning-strike territory.

https://qcovid.org/Calculation

(That's from the university of Oxford in the UK if you think the URL looks funny.)

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