Things are not good around here. My local hospital is to capacity and they have brought in an additional morgue because there are so many deaths. One school has 1,800 kids and staff under quarantine. They have re-opened the testing site (a sports complex) that was shut down. We saw over 1,100 new cases in my county in 1 week. Children seem to be very vulnerable right now.
According to the stats at least 50% of the people have received at least one dose.
When this pandemic started last July we were one of the areas least affected by the virus. Now we are a hot spot. The population in our county has increased since last year by appx. 80,000. No time to add on to our existing hospitals and all 4 in the area are either at or near capacity.
I'm still extremely reluctant to get vaccinated. I believe those vaccinated are the ones spreading the virus.
I agree about spreading the virus. Those vaccinated can be carriers, and will exhibit few symptoms if the jab is working.
Cases are one thing, hospitalizations and mortality another.
In this State, mortality rates are lowest among children.
In this state, there are two in the 19 and under group in hospital, and of the 1560 deaths credited to COVID since this started (statewide), none were in the age group below 19 years old.
In short, children recover, often without being hospitalized.
Of those hospitalized, 86% were non-ICU patients (cumulative total).
There have been 20 breakthrough deaths (among vaccinated people).
Just under half of the folks in the State have the jab.
The data is
here if you'd care to examine the trends. I believe they are fairly typical for COVID.
The greatest risk is to the 80 and over age group, and on examining the death stats, declines quickly to near zero for the under 30 group. Notably, comorbidities seem to be skewed the same way, and those are not factored in. Those charts are under the hospitalizations tab for ND at the website link above.
As for your situation, you know your medical history, and must make your decisions based on that.
We've discussed treatment options that are off label here, and if I can be of any help, PM me. I will direct you to those information sources so you can make up your own mind what you feel is the appropriate course of action for you.
I have to ask, when did school start, and whether testing ramped up independent of illness about the same time.
(Were this many kids already infected, or did this shortly follow re-opening schools, with the kids bringing the bug home?)