UK reports few deaths of children from Covid

 Uncovered DC:

The most comprehensive and perhaps important COVID-19 study to date was released in the U.K on July 7th. Although largely ignored by the mainstream press, the study is of great importance because it actually quantifies the health risks of COVID among children and teenagers.

Impressively, researchers from prestigious U.K. medical institutions reviewed every COVID case involving children and young people (CYP) hospitalized in the U.K. in the first 12 months of the pandemic.
Among the Study’s Key Findings:

• Only 25 children aged 0 to 17 in the U.K. died of COVID in the pandemic’s first 12 months.
• Of these 25 deaths, 19 (76 percent) occurred among patients who had pre-existing “chronic co-morbidities” and/or “life-limiting” medical conditions. Only 24 percent of COVID deaths occurred among children with no “underlying health conditions.”
• This means only six “healthy” children and young people in this nation of 68 million people died of COVID.
• Among the 12.023 million children and young people in the U.K., the mortality rate was 0.002 percent. Expressed as a probability, COVID mortality in CYP was 1 out of 480,942.
• However, the vast majority of CYP in the UK (or any Western nation, including the U.S.A.) do NOT have “chronic co-morbidities” and/or suffer from “life-limiting” medical conditions.
• A footnote in the study defines life-limiting conditions as “diseases with no reasonable hope of a cure that will ultimately be fatal.” Approximately 3 in 1,000 young people have medical conditions characterized as “life-limiting.”
• “Our findings emphasize the importance of underlying co-morbidities as the main risk factor for death, as 76% had chronic conditions, 64% had multiple co-morbidities, and 60% had life-limiting conditions.”
• Among the 25 U.K. children who died of COVID, 15 had a “life-limiting neurological condition,” of which 13 “had complex neurodisability due to a combination of an underlying genetic or metabolic condition, hypoxic-ischaemic events or prematurity.”

According to the study, while many “chronic” medical conditions can affect children, most of these common conditions were not observed in the very small number of children who died of COVID. The authors noted: “It is important to note we observed no deaths in groups who have been considered at higher risk of respiratory infections, such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, type 1 diabetes or trisomy 21.” Except for six children, those who died from COVID-19 were “clinically extremely vulnerable.”

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This also raises questions about the administration's mask mandate for school children which appears to be based upon the hectoring of the teachers' unions and not on science.