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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the link:
https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2025-07-28-pediatric-flu-deaths-reach-266-2024-2025-season[/quote]

Digging a few links deep, this comes with a lot of caveats: "Among children [b]who were eligible[/b] for influenza vaccination and with [b]known vaccine status[/b], 90% of reported pediatric deaths this season (compared to 82% during the 2023-2024 season) have occurred in children who were not [b]fully vaccinated[/b] against influenza."

So at first glance you would expect something like 270 unvaccinated deaths based on the 90%, but it looks like the number would actually be much smaller. How much smaller, we don't actually know since the raw data is nowhere to be found.

Vaccination status is not even an option on their dashboards: [url]https://gis.cdc.gov/GRASP/Fluview/PedFluDeath.html[/url]

But what the dashboard does show, is that 154 of the deaths were in a high risk underlying conditions group.

So at the end of the day, its unlikely we even have triple-digit healthy, unvaccinated kids dying of the flu even in a bad year.

I stand by the fact that the flu vaccine, like most vaccines, only nets out for the sickest and oldest tenth of society or so. [/quote]

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