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Old 28th Dec 2019, 14:16
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Any death of a child is tragic. But lets not put the cart waaay in front of the horse. CDC (US Center for Disease Control) says we average 7 child deaths over a 10 yr period with six adults. So the child death rate is .7 per year out of millions of kids. Per the NIH (US National Institute of Health) heart and lung transplants in the U.S. for children is about 6 per year, or about 9x as likely as a peanut allergy death. Pneumonia deaths in children, at a couple a year, is more common than peanut allergy deaths. A U.S. sports announcer, 34 yrs old, died this week from pneumonia. So the child's death is tragic, and an outlier, but there are lots of causes that are a lot more likely than peanut allergies.
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