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A sixth child has died in the United States from puzzling liver inflammation—aka hepatitis—and the number of unexplained cases has risen to 180 across 36 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The latest death was announced in a press briefing Friday, led by CDC Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay Butler, who said it was reported to the agency Thursday. He did not indicate in which state the death occurred.
In addition to the deaths, 15 of the 180 cases required liver transplants, Butler reported. The cases all occurred in children under the age of 10 but skewed to preschool-age children, with the median age being around 2 years.
The latest US tallies feed into a global phenomenon that now includes over 600 cases across 31 countries, including 15 deaths. But, despite the growing numbers, international health experts are still scrambling to understand what's behind the illnesses after eliminating the most obvious possibilities, such as hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D, and E.
Previously:
CDC Raises Alarm of Mysterious Hepatitis Cases in Kids; 2 States Report Cases
(Score: 0, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:52AM (5 children)
The early reports on this stated that most of the victims were not vaccinated, which might imply that they were more likely to have experienced a bad case of COVID.
However, AC's point stands: the COVID circulating in the wild today has been shaped by the vaccines. Proving a causal link between the vaccines and this hepatitis outbreak is virtually impossible (not to mention painting a target on the people attempting to make such a link). Still, the COVID we have today is undeniably different than the COVID we would have had without vaccines.
Are vaccines bad? On balance, no. But they are not 100% good, either.
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(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:58AM (3 children)
You are saying statement X is impossible to disprove, so there must be something to it.
That AC has no point, and you are an idiot for supporting it.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @05:48AM (2 children)
no, no, you don't understand.
what he's saying is that wearing helmets leads to helmet remnants being found in skulls of crushed miners and fallen mountain climbers.
wearing helmets has changed the nature of skullcrushing injuries, which would look very different if we were not wearing helmets.
isn't it obvious?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:29PM
i am going to stop wearing helmets right away.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Wednesday May 25 2022, @02:50PM
Sure, you say, it's totally unbelievable. What, if said helmet was more easily damaged than your head and created sharp projectiles that stabbed into your skull, thus killing you?
While vaccines have been very helpful in killing off smallpox and very helpful against some things. It doesn't mean that there are no downsides to vaccinations. In fact, it's possible that there are some serious downsides, given the right set of unfortunate / unforeseen circumstances.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:13PM
Please insert brain between hands and keyboard before you type.