COVID-19 Death Rate for Children
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Summary
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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That's Canada, which takes all the data from the various health authorities and compiles it together.
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So the age group that has had the most number of cases, the highest case number for COVID,
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19 and younger have accounted for 20.7% of all COVID cases in Canada.
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There's been nearly 350,000 positive cases of COVID, 348,407 positive cases.
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So the group that has had COVID the most has also had the lowest deaths from COVID.
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So according, again, to these official data from Health Canada,
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of those 350,000 cases, of the 28,800 people in Canada who have died of COVID,
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the number of people who have died of COVID under the age of 20 is 17.
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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%.
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So in other words, this isn't the biggest risk for kids under 20.
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In fact, it isn't even in the top 10 biggest risks for deaths.
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Again, 17 people have died of COVID under the age of 20.
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When you look at just something else, suicide and self-harm,
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the number of deaths from suicide and self-harm in a given year in Canada is somewhere in the 30s.
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And again, this isn't the annual rate of people who have died of COVID, this 17 figure.
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Compare that to 115 annual deaths from cancer, 125 on average deaths from accidental deaths or injuries.
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The number of kids that die from heart disease, liver disease, and pneumonia is approximately the same in a year as die from COVID.