A recent Public Health England update suggests that children who have not received the COVID-19 vaccine have a lower risk of death from the virus than fully vaccinated adults in all age groups.
Public Health England, a government agency, reported (pdf) that three children under the age of 18 died in England within 28 days after testing positive for COVID-19 out of a total of 167,832 cases over a period of three weeks. The data showed that none of the three who died were vaccinated.
In other age groups, people 18 to 29 and 30 to 39 are slightly more likely to die from the virus within 28 days of testing positive, even if they have been vaccinated with two. dose, according to the report released Sept. 9. the total number of young people aged 18 to 29 who died after testing positive for COVID-19 during the age of 28 was 18 and 13 were not vaccinated. Forty-five people between the ages of 30 and 39 died of COVID-19 and 31 of them were not vaccinated.
The data also showed that in the recent three-week period, 1,119 people over the age of 80 died from the virus, with only 155 of them unvaccinated. For the 70- to 79-year-old age group, 580 people died of COVID-19 within 28 days, but only 129 were not vaccinated, according to the report.
Public Health England argued that vaccines are still beneficial in preventing deaths from COVID-19, but stressed that none are 100% effective.
“This is especially true because vaccination has been prioritized in individuals more susceptible or at higher risk for serious illness,” the report said. “People in at-risk groups may also be at higher risk of hospitalization or death from causes other than COVID-19 and therefore may be hospitalized or die with COVID-19 instead of causing COVID-19.”
The Joint Vaccination and Vaccination Committee of the United Kingdom recommended that the vaccine not be offered to children aged 12 to 15 and cited concern that more children may develop more vaccine-related side effects than those adversely affected by COVID. -19.
“By taking a precautionary approach, this profit margin is considered too small to support universal COVID-19 vaccination for this age group at this time,” the body said in a statement earlier this year. month. The organization said it wanted to get more data on the association between COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis, or a type of heart inflammation, in young people.
And one of the committee members, Adam Finn, argued that “the number of serious cases we see of COVID in children of this age are really very small,” according to Reuters.
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
Jack Phillips
Senior Reporter
Jack Phillips is a journalist at The Epoch Times based in New York.