COVID-19 Risk Stratification

• Nov 11, 2020 Dr. Marty Makary: Risk Factors for COVID-19 Mortality among Privately Insured Patients
  • 0.59% Case Fatality Rate overall.
  • Sex: 60.07% Male
  • Age: 70+ was 4.82% of cases, but 42.43% of deaths
  • Cancer: 2.89 to 6.74 odds ratio for mortality.
  • Intellectual disabilities: 2.75 to 3.61 odds ratios.
  • Comorbidities: 83.29% had at least one comorbidity.
  • 0.01% CFR among 0-18.

Protein expression lends itself to prediction of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 with high rates of accuracy.¹⁾

The topic of COVID-19 in children has become an artificial controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely due to the need to drive fear to encourage parents to offer up their children as medical experiments as part of the COVID-19 vaccine campaign.

• January 4, 2022: Association of Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic With Neurodevelopmental Status at 6 Months in Infants With and Without In Utero Exposure to Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection²⁾
• August 1, 2021: "For COVID" or "With COVID": Classification of SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalizations in Children.³⁾
• July 15, 2021: Deaths from COVID ‘incredibly rare’ among children.⁴⁾
• April 2021: Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 in Children⁵⁾
• February 1, 2021: Severe COVID-19 Infection and Pediatric Comorbidities: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.⁶⁾
• January 1, 2021: COVID-19 in Children: Looking Forward, Not Back.⁷⁾
• August 7, 2020: Role of children in household transmission of COVID-19⁸⁾
• December 31, 2021 Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Children and Adolescents Aged <18 Years Hospitalized with COVID-19 — Six Hospitals, United States, July–August 2021 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm705152a3.htm?s_cid=mmmm705152a3_w

• From March 2020 through February 2021 (one year), there were only 61 children in the UK who died where COVID-19 was listed as a contributing factor.⁹⁾

• COVID-19 and Children: ALL the Answers You Need in ONE PLACE¹⁰⁾
• The most important papers on SARS-COV2 in kids¹¹⁾
• Risk of Hospitalization, severe disease, and mortality due to COVID-19 and PIMS-TS in children with SARS-CoV-2 infection in Germany¹²⁾

No children have died due to COVID-19. https://brownstone.org/articles/sweden-and-germany-no-deaths-in-children-due-to-covid/

No hospitalizations among children as of April 2020, and no evidence of children spreading to adults.¹³⁾

“Children become less seriously ill and almost never need to be hospitalised. Children who do end up in hospital are usually vulnerable as a result of another disease.”¹⁴⁾

No children have died due to COVID-19. https://brownstone.org/articles/sweden-and-germany-no-deaths-in-children-due-to-covid/

On October 8, 2021, The New York Times retracted an article falsely claimed that over 900,000 children in the USA had been hospitalized due to COVID-19, overestimating the real number of 63,000 hospitalized children by a factor of 14.^{15) 16)} Even the lower number of 63,000 has been questioned, with some estimates of 39% to 48% of children originally admitted to hospital for unrelated illness but acquiring COVID-19 in the hospital.¹⁷⁾

On October 12, 2021, Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw reported “the death of a 14-year-old who had complex, pre-existing medical medical conditions that played a significant role in their death,” during a televised COVID-19 update.¹⁸⁾ The family of the teenager in question publicly clarified that the young boy had actually died of end-stage cancer, and he simply tested “positive” for COVID-19 in the final days before his passing. After insisting Alberta Health Services was incorrect in their reporting, Hinshaw corrected her mistake and claimed they would evaluate co-morbidities in young COVID-19 deaths more carefully.^{19) 20)}

At least 21 babies under four weeks old died in Scotland in September2021, a rate of 4.9 per 1,000 births (over double what would be expected).