children do not have 52 times more likely to die as a result of vaccinations covid-19as affirmed by publications on social networks that misrepresent official data in misleading messages denied by the British authorities.
EFE Verifica has received a query on its channel of WhatsApp about this statement that has been viralized in English and Spanish and that has its origin in an article on a website specialized in spreading false content with the appearance of news.
It is an interpretation of the figures of the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) of children vaccinated against covid-19 in England between January and October 2021.
FACTS: The child population that received the covid-19 vaccines in that period was seriously ill.a previously and presented a high risk of dying due to their ailments, so it cannot be said that the deaths are a consequence of the drugs that protect againstl SARS-CoV-2. In addition, the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) rejects this possibility.
In some of the viralized publications, a graph is included with real data of the U.S but twisted to change their meaning.
That table collects the deaths of minors registered in the United Kingdom between January and October 2021 and their vaccination status, with a proportion 52 times higher in the age range of 10 to 14 years and three times higher between 15 and 19 years.
However, as sources from the ONS explain to EFE, it is a misleading comparison, since these deaths were due to different factors and the statistics do not include deaths from vaccines.
VACCINATION OF THE MOST VULNERABLE
These sources add that during the aforementioned period, only “clinically vulnerable children and young people” were vaccinated, that is, people whose risk of dying was high and who should be protected from the danger that covid posed in their case.
The U.S He explains that another factor alters the statistics collected in that graph and reduces its credibility.
The table includes among the vaccinated child population a range of children between 10 and 14 yearsbut in the period cited, no one under 12 years of age received the covid vaccine.
For the ONS, the mortality data disseminated in these messages “are not significant.”
BRITISH AGENCIES ENDORSE THE SAFETY OF VACCINES
Besides, the Health Security Agency The British deny to EFE that mortality is higher in those under 18 years of age due to covid vaccines.
To do this, he points out that the data from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) indicate that the vaccine Pfizer/BioNTech -the majority chosen in the age group under 18 years– registers less than one notification of adverse effects for each 1,000 doses for this sector of the population, approximately half that for the citizenry as a whole.
The UKHSA adds that the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing hospitalization for the variant Delta in minors with 16 and 17 years was from 84,5%, as reflected in a study prepared by this agency in collaboration with other British health institutions.
In short, children are no more likely to die from the vaccine than those who are not vaccinated, according to data from the Office of Statistics of the United Kingdom, whose figures have been misrepresented in viral publications denied by the British authorities. EFE
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