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Ted's avatar

Would you mind expanding on the "1 in 1500 teenagers have been hospitalized with Covid-19 per year during the pandemic" statement, Doctor? Am I reading it incorrectly, or misinterpreting it?

I was under the impression that it was approximately 1 in 48,000. Putting aside the "with or from" controversy, I understood adolescent hospitalizations had peaked at about a year into the epidemic. Here's where I read that statistic:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7023e1.htm

From the above reference:

"COVID-19 adolescent hospitalization rates from COVID-NET peaked at 2.1 per 100,000 in early January 2021, declined to 0.6 in mid-March, and rose to 1.3 in April."

What am I misunderstanding?

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ElleBelle's avatar

Given hospitalisation is no longer the concerning metric, as significant data emerges for post covid sequela, long covid, and immune system depression, how would your risk assessment change taking into account these factors?

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Bill Heath's avatar

Given the known age-cohort-related risk profiles, why is anyone looking for a vaccine for anyone younger than 68/

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toolate's avatar

"the risk of severe disease should be at least 2-3X lower than that 1 in 1500 figure,"

At least. the data out of Qatar shows much greater protection than that doesnt it?

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james's avatar

mRNA vaccines should have only received temporary EUAs until a traditional vaccine technology with a proven track record of long term safety was developed as the proven safest option it is completely insane to prevent people from having access to all the traditional vaccines that are available and only allow people to take the far more experimental vaccines its about competition and keeping it out and profits and as you accurately stated above all its corruption

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