A recent update from Public Health England, the public health agency in England, suggests that children who have not received the anti-COVID vaccine have a lower risk of death, after contracting the virus, than adults who are fully vaccinated in all age groups.
Public Health England, has reported (pdf) that three children under the age of 18 died in England, within 28 days of testing positive for COVID-19, out of a total of 167,832 cases over a three-week period. The data showed that none of the three who died were vaccinated.
In other age groups, people 18 to 29 years and 30 to 39 years are slightly more likely to die from the virus within 28 days of testing positive, even if they have been vaccinated with two doses, according to the report published on 9 September. Meanwhile, the total number of people aged 18 to 29 who died after testing positive for COVID-19 within 28 days was 18, and 13 were not vaccinated. Forty-five people between the ages of 30 and 39 died from COVID-19 and 31 of them were not vaccinated.
The data also showed that in the recent three-week period, 1119 people over the age of 80 died from viruses, and only 155 of them were not vaccinated. For the 70- to 79-year-old group, 580 people died from COVID-19 within 28 days of diagnosis, but only 129 were unvaccinated, according to the report.
Public Health England argued that vaccines remain beneficial in preventing deaths from COVID-19, but stressed that none is 100 percent effective.
“This is especially true because vaccination has been given priority in people who are more susceptible or at higher risk for serious illness,” the report said. “People in at-risk groups may also have an increased risk of hospitalization or death from causes other than COVID-19 and therefore may be hospitalized or die with COVID-19 but not from viruses.”
The Joint Vaccination and Immunization Committee of the United Kingdom recommended that children aged 12 to 15 not be offered the vaccine. The committee announced that it was concerned that children may develop more vaccine-related side effects than adverse effects caused by COVID-19.
“Taking a precautionary approach, this profit margin is considered too small to support universal vaccination for COVID-19 at this time,” the agency said in a statement earlier this month. The organization said it wanted more data on the association between COVID vaccines and myocarditis, or a type of heart inflammation that is occurring among vaccinated youth.
One of the committee members, Adam Finn, argued that “the number of serious cases we see of COVID, in children of this age, is really very small,” according to Reuters.
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the PCX (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
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