They shouldn’t be given money. They should be fined. That vaccine stimulus check should go to healthcare workers with direct patient contact.
They wouldn't be giving money to reluctant young people until after college and school started back up in the fall and employers and others forced the issue. Once everybody who wanted one or was forced to have one is vaccinated, and an advertising blitz was targeted at them, then the paid jab could be sprung by surprise. Annual booster shots would be an issue with vaccines lapsing for everybody, but once you break the ice, the subsequent shots are easier. Everyone of these morons has been vaccinated for multiple disease we never hear about today that killed untold numbers of young children in a past that most everybody can't remember today.
Here's why we need to make the effort, it might be awhile before young children are protected and this needs to be impressed on the reluctant, do it for the kids. If you thought your job was tough before and hard on the heart, wait till you have ICUs full of kids.
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Babies and kids dying of Covid at an alarming rate in Brazil as killer strain tears through country (thesun.co.uk)
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Babies and kids dying of Covid at an alarming rate in Brazil as killer strain tears through country
BABIES and children are dying at an “alarming rate” in Brazil where the coronavirus is rife.
An estimated 1,300 babies have died of Covid since the start of the pandemic in the South American country, which has the second highest death toll worldwide.
By comparison, there have been two deaths of babies in the UK out of 150,000 deaths caused by, or involving Covid, according to the Office for National Statistics. ( mostly the original strain)
A futher 12 children in one to 14 year olds have died, making it extremely rare.
Children are relatively at low risk of Covid. Although they can catch it, the disease rarely kills them.
But Brazil is currently facing a spiralling outbreak, with record numbers of 60,000 to 70,000 infections per day, on average.
A new variant,
named P1, is also spreading throughout the country, home to 211 million people.
The variant has been detected 40 times in the UK since its importation in January.
Experts have previously warned Brits need to
stay extremely cautious as the lockdown is eased due to new variants like P1.
Child deaths in Brazil
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has
refused to use lockdowns and vaccinations are moving at a slow pace.
Some
100 are dying per hour, described as the
“biggest genocide” in the country’s history. The cumulative death toll currently stands at 365,954, only trailing the United States.
The crisis has been described as a "humanitarian catastrophe" by the international medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders.
Data from the Health Ministry says that 800 children under the age of nine, including 500 babies, have died of Covid.
But experts
told the BBC the true toll is likely to be several times higher because testing has been scarce.
Dr Fatima Marinho of the University of São Paolo, a leading epidemiologist who is a senior adviser to the international non-governmental organization Vital Strategies, estimated that the virus has killed 2,060 children under nine, including 1,302 babies.
The estimate is based on the number of excess deaths from an unspecified acute respiratory syndrome during the pandemic.
“Excess deaths” are those that are above what would be expected in any given year, and can be used as a way of measuring the true death toll of Covid.
Dr Marinho said there had been ten times the number of deaths listed as caused by an unexplained respiratory disease compared to previous years.
In these cases, it's possible doctors could not say the death was caused by Covid because there was not an available Covid test to prove it.
Covid can also go undiagnosed in children because they
show different symptoms to adults.
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