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Re:Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term by michaelt on Monday August 09, 2021 @12:02PM (#28118536)
> Kids being unvaccinated strikes me as a weak argument because they are the least vulnerable demographic on average.

I have heard that, yes.

But I've also heard [1] saying when a Houston 11-month-old presented with Covid, five "major pediatric hospital groups" said they had no beds available, and she ended up at a hospital 150 miles away.

I can understand why a politician might not give two thumbs up to such a state of affairs.

[1] https://abc7chicago.com/baby-with-covid-treated-at-hospital-...

Re:Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term by umvi on Monday August 09, 2021 @12:29PM (#28118896)
This is an ultra-cherry picked example. How many such 11-month-olds is this happening to? Is this a frequent occurrence or an astonishing rarity? I want to know how many children are being hospitalized after infection per capita. Everything I've read makes it seem like children being hospitalized by covid is around 1 in 100,000 with closer to 1 in 1,000,000 dying from it. Kids are at higher risk just going to a swimming pool. In a nation of 330M+ people, it's not hard to find examples of extreme outliers (just google "kids struck by lightning" for example).