Action4Canada - October 31, 2021


COVID-19 Death Rate for Children


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2 minutes

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158.74

Word count

325

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26


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According to Health Canada data, 17 people have died of COVID under the age of 20 in Canada. That's 0.002% of the total number of people who have died from COVID in Canada over the past two years.

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00:00:00.000 That's Canada, which takes all the data from the various health authorities and compiles it together.
00:00:04.460 So the age group that has had the most number of cases, the highest case number for COVID,
00:00:09.800 are those under the age of 20.
00:00:11.840 19 and younger have accounted for 20.7% of all COVID cases in Canada.
00:00:17.820 There's been nearly 350,000 positive cases of COVID, 348,407 positive cases.
00:00:25.520 So the group that has had COVID the most has also had the lowest deaths from COVID.
00:00:31.680 So according, again, to these official data from Health Canada,
00:00:35.160 of those 350,000 cases, of the 28,800 people in Canada who have died of COVID,
00:00:41.180 the number of people who have died of COVID under the age of 20 is 17.
00:00:46.340 Not 17,000, not 1,700, 17 deaths.
00:00:50.600 So this makes up 0.1% of all COVID deaths and therefore the death rate of anyone dying from COVID under the age of 20 is 0.002%.
00:01:03.700 0.002%.
00:01:06.300 So in other words, this isn't the biggest risk for kids under 20.
00:01:10.320 In fact, it isn't even in the top 10 biggest risks for deaths.
00:01:14.260 Again, 17 people have died of COVID under the age of 20.
00:01:17.880 When you look at just something else, suicide and self-harm,
00:01:20.880 the number of deaths from suicide and self-harm in a given year in Canada is somewhere in the 30s.
00:01:25.800 It was 36 in 2008, 32 in 2019.
00:01:30.160 And again, this isn't the annual rate of people who have died of COVID, this 17 figure.
00:01:34.680 This is in the life of COVID.
00:01:36.280 And again, we're into year two.
00:01:37.660 We're almost at the two-year mark of COVID.
00:01:40.860 And we have seen 17 deaths.
00:01:43.080 Compare that to 115 annual deaths from cancer, 125 on average deaths from accidental deaths or injuries.
00:01:51.220 And then you have 17 deaths for COVID.
00:01:54.180 The number of kids that die from heart disease, liver disease, and pneumonia is approximately the same in a year as die from COVID.