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You have a good point, but I also think it will take more time to get the full picture of long covid in children (number affected, symptoms etc).

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

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In the stuff I'm reading lately, it seems vaccines might not have much effect on long covid from mild cases. Covid is a systematic disease that triggers auto-immunity.

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.

They really didn’t want to push vaccines on children since there were early studies they would develop myocarditis and inflammations. Really the vaccine isn’t made to prevent you from getting covid. It’s so you won’t die. Children don’t really need that since they don’t have significant symptoms. That being the case, what’s the point of them getting vaccinated if it presents risks.

vaccination sure present a risk. so does a covid infection, they are both negligible in terms of odds but both real.

> 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

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