We have seen the anti-vax MAGA crowd mocking the Covid vaccination as unimportant because Covid did not kill enough children for them. We now have MPOX where 79% of the deaths are children yet the anti-vax MAGA crowd is still on social media mocking the idea of vaccination for MPOX and make wild claims about the ramping up of MPOX vaccines. It's actually sad.
Just to provide the numbers for 2024 in the DRC. The death rate for children from MPOX is 5.28%. "Since the start of the year, an estimated 8,772 children have contracted the disease in the DRC – more than half of the country’s 15,664 total reported cases – according to the latest available data. A total of 548 people have died, an estimated 463 of those were children." Children at significant risk from surging mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - UNICEF https://www.unicef.org/press-releas...pox-outbreak-democratic-republic-congo-unicefhttps://www.unicef.org/press-releas...pox-outbreak-democratic-republic-congo-unicef
The new MPOX variant is 10 times as deadly as the previous one and primarily kills children. However the MAGA right-wing crowd is still mocking vaccines. New Mpox strain in UK '10 times more deadly' as expert warns we must 'pay attention' The newest monkeypox variant - the clade 1b strain - was first detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but has since been confirmed in Sweden and Pakistan https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/new-mpox-strain-uk-10-33494495