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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that masks on kids 5 and younger is ridiculous. Young children are at minuscule risk for Covid and if they get it, they almost always recover quickly. All adults can easily access a vaccine now. [/quote]

The incidence of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in people under 21 is about 1 in 300.  About 1 in 150 of those with confirmed COVID were diagnosed with MISC, and about 1 in 100 of those with diagnosed MISC have died. That's 3185 MISC diagnoses in the USA at the last update, and 36 deaths of kids with MISC.

Small numbers, but if you are even remotely worried about the risks of blood clots with the J&J vaccine, you should be a helluva lot more worried about your kid getting MISC -- and note that twice as many kids in the USA have *DIED* with MISC as the number of people who have had blood clots after J&J vaccine (not died from clots -- just had confirmed case).

Of course, cases are still being investigated in both of these contexts, and numbers will be updated. But if you are cavalier about kids getting COVID, you should be more than twice as cavalier about clots and the J&J. (I'm sure some people are consistent this way. I wonder how many are not.)[/quote]

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