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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
That's a loaded question and you know it, man  I can spin that around and say "how many kids in hospital from vaccine side effects is acceptable to you?". The answer for both question is none, but we both know that's not an option. |
It's an honest question. The other poster said "Covid isn't dangerous for kids." But now the goalposts are moved, and it's Covid isn't as dangerous as the flu.
Are there children in the hospital from side effects from the vaccine? Or are the numbers the same as adults?
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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
There have been hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations from flu every year but there was no flu vaccine mandates etc. It's irrefutable that the flu is more dangerous to children then COVID.
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Wrong. If that were irrefutable, you would have provided a link/proof. Sounds like B.S. to me.
And it is:
COVID-19 much more dangerous for kids than the flu, says Children's Hospital Pediatrician-in-Chief
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"The morbidity and the long-term consequences have been much more impressive and striking with COVID than for flu. So, for example, during a typical flu season, we usually hospitalize around 46,000 kids in a year. With COVID, we've hospitalized over 200,000," said Simonsen.
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Doctors are more worried about Covid than flu when it comes to children
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For the past three decades, Dr. Toni Darville has treated some of the sickest children suffering from viral illnesses — especially the flu. "I've seen a lot of kids become extremely ill after influenza," said Darville, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of North Carolina Children's Research Institute. Some have developed pneumonia. Others needed to be placed on machines called ECMO to help their damaged heart and lungs heal.
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VERIFY: COVID-19 has caused more pediatric deaths than the flu in the last 18 months
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HOUSTON — A lot of people compare COVID-19 to the seasonal flu. Some even say they think the flu poses a much bigger risk to children than COVID.
Is that true?
To answer the question, KHOU 11 pulled data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and spoke to Dr. Michael Chang, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UTHealth Houston.
“I think that’s false. I think the data from one year – the 2020 to 2021 flu season – shows that,” Chang said.
According to the CDC, one child under 18 years old died from the flu in the whole country during the 2020-2021 flu season.
“That’s when we were masking, physically distanced, and a lot of kids were doing virtual learning. We had a lot of mitigations in place. One death due to the flu, but we continued to have COVID deaths,” Chang said.
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