⚰️🧒🦠 15 Covid deaths children in ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 alone in just under 5 weeks, 24 August - 26 September @BinitaKane

3 a week.
91 child Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic in the U.K. as a whole

Assuming the deaths started in April that would amount to an average of c.5 deaths A MONTH for the whole of the U.K.

Now c 3 A WEEK in England alone.

What is going on do you think @BinitaKane ?
H/t @vzlui for this 🇺🇸 link. US schools tended to go back earlier than English schools, have been vaxing kids for months

Very striking that in the month from 6th Sept - 5th Oct they had 131 child (0-17) Covid deaths. That wld be roughly equivalent to 26-27 in a month in the UK
In France (h/t @CaptainNedLudd for the article) they have had 7 deaths just in the 0-9 age group since the start of the pandemic to end of August.

We have had 19 death in that age group in that period (plus 3 more to end of Sept) in England alone. Nearly 3 times as many.
H/t @TigressEllie and @Antonio_Caramia as always for the compilation of these data.

Remember England’s population is c 54 million.

France population about 67.4 million.

lefigaro.fr/sciences/covid…
This is @TigressEllie and @Antonio_Caramia website.

England

You have to scroll down for the death data and then select the relevant age group and period

ilpandacentrostudio.it/uk.html
So 9,793 child 🧒 🏥 admissions since the start of this pandemic in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 alone.

At current admission rates we will soon pass 10k.

Likely 11k U.K. wide (@jneill may know).

Just for want of effective mitigations in school and early POSITIVE vaccination decisions by the JVCI
This was as a result of DECISIONS to delay vaccination and DECISIONS to allow mass infection.

And it causes avoidable suffering in children. Not to mention their parents

What does it say about us as a society if we just shrug and say “oh dear”?

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This caught me on the hop as I thought child cases and hospitalisations were falling in Scotland.
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Let’s hope this week’s data shows a sharp drop.

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