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Because scary side effects. The misinformation campaign on this has been very effective. I know a number of people that would NEVER consider NOT vaccinating their children who believe the COVID vaccine does crazy stuff to you including "changing your DNA". It is mind boggling to me.
that's great news!
This is the education system failing to teach science. mRNA does not change your DNA. UGH.
I'm not sure that the effective protection is nearly 100%. That's not the case for most other vaccines.
Not yet. Clinical trial results are not yet published. I think it unlikely that there will be short term side effects from the vaccine administered to children. Long term side effects are unknown at this point.
Is death all that matters? There are other end-points that should also be evaluated. Death and ICU admission are primary, obviously, but there are others.
Agreed with all this. Which is why my child won't be getting vaccinated anytime soon. Maybe in a few years.
Admittedly I haven't read the literature, but I doubt the vaccine makes you immortal.
If that were the case, I certainly regret getting jabbed. Living forever seems like a nightmare.
You were talking about the effectiveness of the vaccine. Yes death is the only thing that matters. ICU admissions wont matter if the vaccine is 95% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID.
It was a smaller study and not published/peer-reviewed yet, but great news nonetheless.
What about long-haulers? Those people would disagree that death is the only thing that matters. Would suck to be in the 5% that did get a symptomatic COVID infection and then got hit with long-haul symptoms.
None of this convinces me I should vaccinate my child (who is EXTREMELY low risk from COVID) for the off chance a fully vaccinated person gets covid AND experiences long haul symptoms.
No. And I should have clarified that the people I was talking about who wouldn't question getting their children vaccinated on normal vaccines won't get the COVID vaccine for THEMSELVES. My sister-in-law is a great example of this. She makes fun of her cousin for being an anti-vaxer for autism, but refuses to get the COVID shot for herself. And she is a nurse.
They should be getting the flu shot. As should all adults. The flu kills people every year. Just because people are not complying with that, doesn't mean it is correct. Plus, this is not the flu. At all.
I have a 14 yo that looks like he's 18 that is desperate for it as well.
That's GREAT news. Thank you so much for posting!!
Not sure which anti-American group started this baseless lie on social media, but its caused immeasurable damage.
Try to follow a conversation:
I get one and so does my son. Every year as well. Im dying to see how many hypocrites we have on these forums dont get them for the greater good of society but the search function sucks. Oh well.
Very much so.
Probably people who thought Utopia was a documentary. Not a good show, but is about a pandemic and a conspiracy to sterilize the world with a vaccine. The most depressing realization for me over the last 4-6 years is that the line between fiction, fantasy and truth is gone.Not sure which anti-American group started this baseless lie on social media, but its caused immeasurable damage.
Do you think a COVID vaccine will be required to attend school in 2021?Also by law to attend public school you have to have all your immunizations (flu is not one) but there is a list that are required
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Need @Terminalxylem or @growlers or @gianmarco to weigh in, maybe @ghostguy123 too, but:
I don't know about the actual dosing, but I know they are going to be starting trials in the next few months for this age group. I've actually signed up to enroll my two daughters (5 and 8).
I'm not @The Z Machine but I'd argue that for B), it's not protecting the vaccinated so much as the unvaccinated - antivaxxers, religious exemptions, people with legitimate medical exemptions, and those that fall through the cracks, I don't feel so bad about the antivaxxers or religious but the other two - we should protect them.
Moderna's for this age group just started two weeks ago. In which company's trial did you enroll your daughters?
Why? Those other diseases ARE MUCH MORE DEADLY to children than Covid. The flu is comparable. Those are required because they eliminate very deadly diseases to children and have been proven low risk over many years. Neither of those can be said about a Covid vaccine YET.
we get an alert, about every other week, that someone at school has contracted covid. they don't say who it is, but the assumption, is that it's a kid.We've had 50 in our school
ugh.
where do you get that 50% number? every nurse/dr i know, has already been vaccinated. small sample size, but all of them got it right away.
There's also been over 2000 cases of MIS-C. It's not an entirely benign illness for all kids. Not to mention the uncertainty of long term problems that we still don't know about.
