Claim: The risk of a child dying of Covid-19 is around one in 3.5 million.
Fact-check: The risk of dying from a Covid vaccine is lower than 1 in 31,000 - Full Fact
Verdict: the risk of a child dying of covid is very low, but this figure refers to the england and wales death rate as of may last year, when more people had it so chances of getting ill were higher. estimates suggest perhaps 1 in 100,000 children who catch covid die of it, but, in the uk at least, there are very few infections so the risk will be lower.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2021-05-19T00:00:00