A recent news story has been making the rounds in Oklahoma: Oklahoma experiences first pediatric COVID-19 death. The headlines are all similar to this, and most people won’t make the effort to read beyond the headline, instead assuming that COVID can kill children. The full story is that the 13-year old girl that tragically passed also had juvenile scleroderma, making her susceptible to the infection.
Healthy, normal 13-year olds are not at risk of death from a COVID infection. A COVID infection, on the contrary, would act as a natural vaccine for these kids, protecting them later in life when the infection would otherwise pose a risk to them.
Real journalism is not practiced by established, well-funded outlets. These trashy tabloids merely act as propaganda publishers in service to a very specific narrative.
