Eradication of Covid is a fantasy

[ll74]

The NUMBERS are miniscule:

CDC: Children 17 and Under Account for 0.057% of All COVID-Involved Deaths in U.S.
By Susan Jones | August 5, 2021 | 7:22am EDT

(CNSNews.com) - As of Wednesday, August 4, a total 349 children ages 0-17 have died of COVID since the pandemic began in January 2020, based on death certificates submitted so far to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

In that same time period, CDC counts a total of 606,389 COVID-involved deaths in the United States. So children account for 0.057 percent of all COVID-involved deaths, or those coded to ICD–10 code U07.1.

CDC does not disclose what, if any, underlying conditions those 349 children may have had.

Since January 2020, the CDC has recorded 51,892 deaths from all causes in children 0-17, which means the 349 COVID-involved deaths equals 0.67 percent of the deaths in children from all causes.

The chart below shows the CDC's latest numbers. (CDC notes that death certificates are submitted on a lagging basis, so the numbers are sure to rise somewhat.)

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/nat...der-account-0057-all-covid-involved-deaths-us

You need to be more careful with your words then. Deaths != cases or infectious rate

 

[BoyNextDoor]

“Humanity’s unimpressive track record of deliberately eradicating contagious diseases warns us that lockdown measures, however draconian, can’t work. Thus far, the number of such diseases so eliminated stands at two—and one of these, rinderpest, affected only even-toed ungulates. The lone human infectious disease we’ve deliberately eradicated is smallpox. The bacterium responsible for the Black Death, the 14th-century outbreak of bubonic plague, is still with us, causing infections even in the U.S.

“While the eradication of smallpox—a virus 100 times as deadly as Covid—was an impressive feat, it shouldn’t be used as a precedent for Covid. For one thing, unlike smallpox, which was carried only by humans, SARS-CoV-2 is also carried by animals, which some hypothesize can spread the disease to humans. We will need to rid ourselves of dogs, cats, mink, bats and more to get to zero.

“For another, the smallpox vaccine is incredibly effective at preventing infection and severe disease, even after exposure to disease, with protection lasting five to 10 years. The Covid vaccines are far less effective at preventing spread.

“And smallpox eradication required a concerted global effort lasting decades and unprecedented cooperation among nations. Nothing like this is possible today, especially if it requires a perpetual lockdown in every country on earth. That’s simply too much to ask, especially of poor countries, where lockdowns have proved devastatingly harmful to public health. If even one nonhuman reservoir or a single country or region that fails to adopt the program, zero-Covid would fail.”



https://www.wsj.com/articles/zero-c...lia-new-zealand-11628101945?mod=hp_opin_pos_3

Who said the "eradication" of Covid was a public health policy goal? Good example of setting up a false premise, ascribing the position and blathering on about it.

 

[RobDownSouth]

You need to be more careful with your words then. Deaths != cases or infectious rate

He moves the goalpists so effortlessly I sometimes wonder if he has any recent Korean ancestry.

 

[ll74]

He moves the goalpists so effortlessly I sometimes wonder if he has any recent Korean ancestry.

They're so focused on deaths from Covid that they can't think of it any other way.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Who said the "eradication" of Covid was a public health policy goal? Good example of setting up a false premise, ascribing the position and blathering on about it.

It’s a minority aspiration for sure. I’ve seen a few “experts” say it should be a goal. Here’s an example. https://www.commercialappeal.com/st...eradicate-covid-19-pfizer-vaccine/7512452002/

New Zealand and Australia seem to be pursuing a zero Covid dream, and some have pointed to them as a model for the US. A couple people on this board have suggested it’s possible to make Covid as rare as polio and smallpox. IDK what metrics the CDC is using these days to declare victory. Maybe someone here has that info.