In a previous article, I asked the question, Is it “Natural and Healthy” When Children Get Sick With COVID? The answer to this question is obvious.
The idea that vaccine-preventable diseases are healthy for children is an old anti-vaccine trope. Prior to the pandemic, anti-vaccine doctors claimed measles prevents cancer, for example. In reality, neither measles nor COVID is “healthy” for children.
However, the article Dr. Prasad and Krug contained another absurd claim. They also wrote:
While the death of any child is a tragedy, Covid-19 is less deadly to children than many other risks we accept as a matter of course, including drowning, vehicle accidents, and even cardiovascular disease.
This is doubly false. The CDC’s COVID data tracker added 800 deaths to its grim tally in the year before that article was published, and 800 children have since died of COVID. This is the same as the number of children who drown annually and larger than the number of children who die from cardiovascular disease. Overall, over 2,000 children have died of COVID since the start of the pandemic, and many more would have died had none been vaccinated.
