Are kids under 5 ever getting vaccinated?

[Anonymous]

My 4 year old will be 5 in July so I guess he can get the shot then but of course that dose was deemed 12% effective so I'm not feeling much better.

In Jan/early Feb, we heard young kids would be vaccinated by early March. Now we hear nothing.

I wanted my son to go to camp because he's done so little over the past 2 years and he thrives in preschool. He's still catching colds though so it's not as if masks are doing enough to stop transmission.

I realize the vaccines are not stopping transmission but I'd feel better knowing his risk of serious illness was lower.

[Anonymous]

I have a 3.5yo and and infant and feel the same way. At least camp will be mostly outdoors. For the most part unvaccinated kids have fared better than vaccinated adults (source: Emily Osters data which I recommend checking out for some sanity.) I kept my son home for nearly two years and he suffered socially. He’s been in nursery school, is going to camp and I’ve kept masking him. If I have to pull him out at the height of surges we’ll do that. Managing the best we can without a vaccine for now.

Seems like moderna might submit their research for under 5 vaccines by mid April.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 3.5yo and and infant and feel the same way. At least camp will be mostly outdoors. For the most part unvaccinated kids have fared better than vaccinated adults (source: Emily Osters data which I recommend checking out for some sanity.) I kept my son home for nearly two years and he suffered socially. He’s been in nursery school, is going to camp and I’ve kept masking him. If I have to pull him out at the height of surges we’ll do that. Managing the best we can without a vaccine for now.

Seems like moderna might submit their research for under 5 vaccines by mid April.

Very few adults are unvaccinated in this area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4 year old will be 5 in July so I guess he can get the shot then but of course that dose was deemed 12% effective so I'm not feeling much better.

In Jan/early Feb, we heard young kids would be vaccinated by early March. Now we hear nothing.

I wanted my son to go to camp because he's done so little over the past 2 years and he thrives in preschool. He's still catching colds though so it's not as if masks are doing enough to stop transmission.

I realize the vaccines are not stopping transmission but I'd feel better knowing his risk of serious illness was lower.

The risk of serious illness is already very low. The 5-11 vaccine was basically worthless so I don’t have a lot of faith in the results for under 5. My eligible kids are vaccinated but still got COVID. My one unvaccinated kid has zero Symptoms.

[Anonymous]

My 4 year old recently had covid. He was definitely sick, but it was indistinguishable from any other kid virus. He had a fever, threw up a few times, and was very tired. The whole thing was over in 36 hours and he was back to normal.

That said, my vaccinated kid was completely asymptomatic. I think the vaccine is worth it for kids to avoid a day or two of misery but I wouldn't avoid fun stuff like camp for a 4 year old because of covid.

[Anonymous]

The 5-11 dose didn’t provide long term protection, so no. There is no effective vaccine in sight for ages 0-11.

But most healthy kids (even with asthma) can live life normally in an area with lose cases and high vaccination rates like the DMV.

[Anonymous]

Given the low efficacy of children's vaccines combined with the low risk of severe disease or death especially for young children I have no early idea why people are taking any more precautions based on their young children being unvaccinated than they do during a typical flu/RSV season.

[Anonymous]

Sign your kids up.

[Anonymous]

I think what’s happening is that the risk of severe illness for young kids was already so low that it’s hard for the vaccines to be deemed worth their very small risk of adverse side effects in trials.

The good news is the risk is really low. Also it’s clear now after Omicron that vaccines aren’t going to keep us from transmitting it anyway. So what we need is very low risk of severe illness which we get from vaccines and little kids get from their age. So we’re there either way. And ftr yes I will be first in line with my kid if/when it’s approved. But I think we’re fine either way baring new and different variants.

[Anonymous]

You all are insane. My 4-nearly-5 kid has been in preschool, we’ve done many outdoor and some indoor playdates, kept life as close to normal as we could other than those first few weeks between March-May 2020. I can’t believe you don’t see how much of a disservice you are doing to your child just to satisfy your own anxiety

[Anonymous]

+1 to all the PPs

Just sign your kid up for camp. So much data on all this already.

[Anonymous]

I would feel so much better if my little kids could be vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would feel so much better if my little kids could be vaccinated.

JFC why??

[Anonymous]

We already made it through original Covid, the UK variant, the Delta variant, and the Omicron variant without much severe illness in kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would feel so much better if my little kids could be vaccinated.

I think you are talking about a vaccine that does not exist - and likely won't anytime soon.

Because you want one that will take the extremely low risk to zero - and these vaccines don't do that in kids. Or you want one that stops transmission - and again, these don't do that.

I want a magic vaccine too! But with the choices we are likely to have this year, there is no reason to wait for a vaccine.