Re:California school kids must get Covid vaccine under new bill
by s1artibartfast on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:27PM
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so 5X more children die in car crashes and not 10X?
Re:California school kids must get Covid vaccine under new bill
by bseidensticker on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:51PM
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Someone said that driving them to and from school is 20x more dangerous (and then edited their comment to say 10x instead of 20x). I was just casually looking up the stats for myself and thought I'd share.
Re:California school kids must get Covid vaccine under new bill
by s1artibartfast on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:27PM
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I see, thanks
Re:California school kids must get Covid vaccine under new bill
by kjeetgill on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:00PM
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The 10x number was from a different poster than the one following up with the numbers that were asked for.
Re:California school kids must get Covid vaccine under new bill
by s1artibartfast on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:09PM
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It seemed like they were arguing against the accuracy of the estimate, but their math supports it. If you look at the totals, you get 5x and divided covid deaths by 2 years, you get 10x
Approx 38k people killed in cars in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in..., lets assume the same for 2021 so 76k dead.
Approx 850k people killed by covid https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
So covid killed more than 10x as many Americans as cars did (not including pedestrians). That doesn't take into account age though. CDC shows only 727 dead in the 0-17 age range.
For cars, it seems that at least in 2006, about 2000-2500 children 16 and under were killed in cars: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
Seems like cars are a few times more deadly for kids than covid, but covid killed way more Americans of all ages. Not a great analysis, but it's as good a job as I'm going to do.