I wonder how kids mental health copes with the idea that adults will intentionally expose them and others to a deadly disease with no mitigations to make money.
Surely they exist if you're making a comment like this, right?
"Children with long covid" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7927578/
"Similar patterns of [18F]-FDG brain PET hypometabolism in paediatric and adult patients with long COVID: a paediatric case series" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00259-021-05528...
I think you all should learn to respect the enemy rather than dismissing it because it makes you feel bad.
they asked kids 6-16, after having covid, if in the following 3 months they experienced muscle or joint aches, headaches, or several other things.
of course half the kids self report that. How many of them had growing pains? Stayed up too late and didn't hydrate enough? Etc. I don't think this study is anything to give much weight to
Does it really need explaining that besides making money, work is also used to keep our society running?
Do you like things such as...say, FOOD?
Get in line behind gun violence, vehicle accidents, and drowning at the beach.
At what point do we decide that totally evidence-free hysterical claims like this are as much misinformation as anti-vaxx posting is?
Not that we have lingering/longer term effects of other viruses to observe though..
We're nearing 300,000,000 cases worldwide. How is it still an open question? Maybe the reason there's "much less information" is simply because kids are not (by and large) getting majorly sick from it.
If kids were dying from covid in any significant numbers, I have no doubt I'd be seeing the stories on CNN and everywhere else by now.
> If kids were dying from covid in any significant numbers, I have no doubt I'd be seeing the stories on CNN and everywhere else by now.
Well, pediatric admissions are the highest they've ever been. I would not rely on the major media, you have to look for the data yourself. Media are big businesses in the pocket of bigger business that want adults to go to work and kids to go to school. They will only report issues that are so large and obvious they can't be ignored.
After two years and 300,000,000 cases worldwide, don't we have enough data by now to know that Covid isn't a major health risk for children?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...
Because of the lack of data, it seems like I am running an experiment on my child either way :
- if I send her to school where she will most likely catch covid (1st generation of kids to catch covid at a young age)
- by getting a vaccine studied on such a small test group and short period of time (1st generation of kids get this vaccine at a young age)
I am on the vaccine side but my ex is not.
sorry for the rant(ish) reply, it is a sensitive personal topic and just needed to lay my thoughts bare I guess
P.S : vaccine not available for child in her age group where she lives
> They really didn’t want to push vaccines on children
who is "they" because when I read guidance from several countries, it does recommend the vaccine in age group 5-11
For kids, my gut says its better to get the vaccine, but I could be persuaded that it won't do much for them as the data come out. This would place greater emphasis on NPI (distancing, N95 masks, ventilation) to prevent them from catching it at all. I get that this may not be realistic for kids, but the alternative imo is that we're going to injure the next generation. Maybe we're just doomed.
Nonetheless, at times when COVID is peaking in transmission, I think schools should be shut down to protect kids and the adults they come into contact with. In a month or two, transmission should decline. Opening schools will increase transmission again, but America seems to have no capacity to really tackle this.