An article on a conspiracy news site that frequently misrepresents COVID-19 data is claiming that vaccinated children are 137 times more likely to die than unvaccinated children, suggesting that COVID-19 vaccines are deadly. The claim is based on raw data from the U.K. Office for National Statistics.
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Emphasizing that this claim and others made by the website are based on intentionally misrepresenting raw, unverified, or decontextualized data is recommended. U.K. data does show that children who are vaccinated are more likely to die from all causes than children who are unvaccinated. This is because the children who are most likely to be vaccinated, especially early in the vaccine roll-out, are children who are already at a much higher risk of death than other children: children who are immunocompromised, children with cancer, and children with serious heart and respiratory conditions. Presenting these numbers without that context falsely implies that the children are dying from vaccine injuries. Fact Checking Source(s):
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