In Six Years, Have Any Healthy Alabama Students Died from Covid?

In Six Years, Have Any Healthy Alabama Students Died from Covid?
by Bill Rice at Brownstone Institute

I’m working on a story that will try to debunk a nonsensical and specious claim made by the Alabama Education Association that “sixty-five” Alabama educators died from Covid in the first 18 months of the pandemic.

While researching this story, I decided to take another stab at ascertaining what the real Covid mortality rate for Alabama students has been over the past six years.

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According to Google AI, approximately 814,000 students attend K-12 public and private schools in my state every year.

Since approximately 374,000 students have graduated from K-12 schools in the last six years, this means approximately 1.2 million current and former Alabama students could have contracted and died from Covid in the past six years.

Regarding the Covid Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) for Alabama students, I have found only two students who may have reportedly died from Covid in the past six years.

If one assumes that 85 percent of students have now contracted the original Covid or its many variants, this would mean that approximately 1 million Alabama students have already had a “case” of Covid.

If only two students (allegedly or reportedly) died from this disease, this translates to a Covid IFR for Alabama students of approximately 1-in-500,000 (0.0002 percent).

Alabama’s Only Known Covid Student Death Had Serious Comorbid Conditions

I should note that I researched these two Covid deaths and was able to come up with the name of only one former student who passed away “from Covid.”

On August 17, 2021, Will Fowler, who was going to be a senior at Cullman High School, passed away, and, in a Facebook post, his cousin said Will had “tested positive for Covid.”

Will seems to have been an inspiring young man as he battled severe, life-altering medical conditions his entire life. He suffered from Muscular Dystrophy and was confined to a wheelchair and also, like many children with severe disabilities, was extremely heavy.

Per logic, I also deduced that Will had not contracted Covid from classmates or from anyone at his school as he died (presumably in the hospital) only five days after school had started at Cullman High (and, one assumes, must have been ill and not at school in the days before his death).

I also found one other quote from the superintendent of Birmingham City Schools, who said a student at Jackson Olin High School had “died from Covid” but I could find no name or article proving any details about this student’s death.

This Is Par for the Course

Indeed, in five-plus years researching Covid cases and victims, I’m struck by the almost universal absence of key medical details about alleged victims of Covid.

For example, readers seeking important information might be interested in learning when a victim first developed Covid symptoms. What were these symptoms? What was the period of time from the appearance of the first symptoms to death? When did the victim(s) test positive for Covid? What treatment protocols did medical staff administer (or fail to administer)?

Were family members of victims present during hospital or ICU stays, or were they kept away from their loved one?

I assume, at some point, most alleged Covid victims really did “test positive” for Covid, but was it really Covid that caused their deaths?

Needless to say, I’d also like to know who did and didn’t get a Covid vaccine and, also, how many victims might have gotten a flu shot before they developed “flu-like symptoms.”

A Key ‘Covid Death’ with Virtually No Important Details Provided

An example of this lack of details would be the circumstances of the death of Robert Thacker, Jr., the only crew member of the USS Teddy Roosevelt aircraft carrier who reportedly “died from Covid” after an “outbreak” on that ship in March and April 2020.

(Note: Positive antibody tests in late April 2020 showed that at least 60 percent of the crew of 4,800 had previously had Covid. A US destroyer and a French aircraft carrier also had outbreaks at the same time, with similar positive rates and no fatalities. The Covid IFR on these three vessels was approximately 1-in-4,500, which is 4.5x lower than the flu IFR of 1-in-1,0000.)

While I’ve performed a diligent search, all I’ve learned is that this ordnance specialist tested positive for Covid on March 30th, 2020, was placed in quarantine quarters in Guam, and was later “found unresponsive” in a wellness check (a couple of days after he’d been to the local hospital, where he’d been discharged).

To this day, no member of the public knows the full and comprehensive details of this 41-year-old crew member’s medical crisis, which is common with the vast majority of “Covid victims.” For me, at least, it seems like the only sailor who died after “outbreaks” on three large Naval vessels should have been the focus of copious media attention.

One great oddity of “Covid cases” is that the public almost never learns such details, as it’s apparently taboo to ask such common-sense questions.

Expressed differently, if evidence exists that someone, perhaps, didn’t really directly die from Covid, this evidence is not going to be revealed by corporate journalists or pubic health officials.

Disparate Lethality Numbers among the Young and Older

I should also note that, via an email query, I asked the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) media affairs spokesperson “how many Alabama students have died from Covid” and was told this information was not available or the ADPH didn’t know – a non-answer which strikes me as extremely odd.

Maybe I imagined it, but I seem to recall a somewhat heated debate over whether schools should be cancelled and how long schools should remain closed. It seems to me that a firm answer on the number of students who had died from Covid would be very important information for the public to know.

As it is, I’m left with the apparent conclusion that maybe just two Alabama K-12 students have died “from Covid” in the entire pandemic …although I’m not sure if Covid actually caused their deaths (because no reporter ever wrote an in-depth story on particulars of these cases).

Assuming these figures are correct and the deaths of these two students can only be explained by Covid, I still can ascertain the dramatic difference in Covid deaths among students and “educators.”

Approximately 65 educators allegedly died from Covid (out of 89,000 to 100,000 educators in our state). Only two students – out of 1.2 million – reportedly died from the same disease.

If educators were contracting Covid from students, they were contracting this disease from a virus that very possibly had a 0.00000 percent mortality rate for “healthy” students.

In Alabama, the simple mortality rate for “healthy” students seems to be 1-in-1.2 million (as Will Fowler had numerous life-altering medical conditions and could not have been considered a “healthy student.” For purposes of this illustration, I’m assuming the unknown other student might have been in perfect health before his/her death).

Context for a Hypothetical ‘Informed Consent’ Conversation

Per Google AI, I learned that the probability a random citizen will be struck by lightning in a given five-year period is approximately 1-in-200,000

This would mean that “healthy” Alabama K-12 students were approximately five times more likely to be struck by lightning as they were to expire from Covid in the last five years.

This “context example” would seem to be very relevant in any “informed consent” conversation parents might have with doctors before getting their children vaccinated.

Doctor: “Mrs. Jones, I can tell you that your child has a 1-in-200,000 chance of being struck by lightning in the coming five years and an approximately 1-in-1-million chance of dying from Covid.

“Still, on advice of the American Pediatric Association, I strongly recommend your child get today’s shot and stay current with future boosters every year.”

Of course, it’s doubtful that any APA dues-paying doctor will tell parents what their child’s chances of death from all causes will be in the next five years if they get this shot.

Or, even more likely, the chance a child might develop any serious adverse event(s) over the next five years if a child goes ahead and gets his “life-saving” injection.

As noted, in Alabama, I’m pretty sure I know the odds any healthy child will die from Covid is approximately 1-in-1 million.

The odds a male child might develop myocarditis are maybe 1-in-17,000 to 1-in-34,000 (and this is just one life-threatening adverse event.)

As I’ve noted repeatedly, we now live in a “crazy world,” so my guess is that if many parents think they can reduce the odds their child might die from Covid from 1-in-1 million from 0-in-1-million, they are going to take their pediatrician’s advice and reduce those terrifying (sarc) odds.

Most parents will also never ask their doctor, “How many vaccinated people later died from Covid?”

If a bold parent did ask this question, the doctor would probably lie and reply “zero” and tell this inquisitive mother that the shots are “100-percent effective at preventing Covid deaths.”

Republished from the author’s Substack

In Six Years, Have Any Healthy Alabama Students Died from Covid?
by Bill Rice at Brownstone Institute – Daily Economics, Policy, Public Health, Society