{"id":10893,"date":"2022-11-10T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&#038;p=10893"},"modified":"2024-08-11T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T22:36:18","slug":"low-risk-or-cherry-picked","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/low-risk-or-cherry-picked\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-risk or cherry-picked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row source=&#8221;&#8221; text=&#8221;Clinical Trials&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Claim:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Our very own Noah Louis-Ferdinand gave a public comment before the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, but since no good deed goes unpunished, an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Voices4Vaccines\/status\/1590707160119320578\">anti-vaccine<\/a> publication quoted him as proof that vaccines are unnecessary for children since they are at \u201clow risk\u201d from COVID complications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Facts:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]What did Noah really say? He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PK_vartq3bI&amp;feature=youtu.be\">shared the story<\/a>\u00a0of a family who lost their child to COVID in order to emphasize that even though it is less likely for children to suffer the worst complications from COVID, it is still far more common than one would hope. And, of course, COVID vaccination helps prevent these worst outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>How low is low risk, anyhow?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/health.ucdavis.edu\/news\/headlines\/why-mis-c-is-a-life-threatening-covid-19-complication-that-parents-dont-want-to-miss-video\/2022\/02\">MIS-C<\/a>\u00a0could affect 1 out of every 3,000 children who have been infected with COVID<\/li>\n<li>COVID has caused over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/data.cdc.gov\/NCHS\/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea\/nr4s-juj3\">1,500 deaths<\/a>\u00a0in U.S&gt; children in the last 2.5 years, the majority of which happened in the last 1.5 years<\/li>\n<li>By comparison,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/about\/history.html#:~:text=It%20is%20estimated%203%20to,of%20the%20brain)%20from%20measles.\">measles<\/a>\u00a0killed 500 U.S. children per year before vaccines<\/li>\n<li>A third of children hospitalized had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/acip\/meetings\/downloads\/slides-2021-11-2-3\/03-COVID-Jefferson-508.pdf\">no underlying conditions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>About\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.clevelandclinic.org\/2022\/09\/05\/common-covid-long-hauler-symptoms-seen-in-kids\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20most%20common%20symptoms%20that,children%20who%20have%20had%20COVID.%E2%80%9D\">25% of children<\/a>\u00a0infected suffer from Long-COVID<\/li>\n<li>While children may have less risk than adults, COVID is still a really, really terrible disease.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/your-health\/risks-getting-very-sick.html\">Vaccines help mitigate the worst complications<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although children are at a lower risk than adults for severe COVID complications, COVID can still be deadly for them, and vaccination helps prevent these worst outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[189,188,218],"class_list":["post-10893","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-covid-19","jtf_topic_subjects-mrna-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10896,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10893\/revisions\/10896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}