By Bill Rice at Brownstone dot org.

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.

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 ...