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.