Covid Vaccine - Still Required?
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Anonymous
| Does anyone know if the Covid vaccine is required for the 2024-2025 school year? |
Anonymous
| No. Recommended but not required. |
Anonymous
| It was never required. |
Anonymous
| It was required for certain charter schools this school year. |
Anonymous
| DCI absolutely requires the Covid vaccine. |
Anonymous
| Is it even legal to require it at a public school? |
Anonymous
It's not legal anymore https://dcist.com/story/23/11/07/dc-council-dcps-covid-vaccine-mandate-repeal/ |
Anonymous
| No, but it would be a good idea to get one. |
Anonymous
I think some communities have a very good reason for not thinking it’s a good idea. |
Anonymous
What, do they enjoy getting/spreading Covid recreationally? |
Anonymous
Maybe? I have gotten all the vaccines and boosters and increasingly am unsure of their utility. Whereas I totally understand the point of the flu vaccine even beyond helping prevent me from getting the flu (widespread flu vaccine uptake does seem to diminish the spread of the flu generally). It is not clear the Covid vaccine has the same impact due to its increasingly mild presentation and the speed with which it continues to mutate. This is one reason we have never gotten a vaccine for other cold viruses, even though like Covid, colds can be dangerous for immunosuppressed people, and the very young and very old. The cost/benefit doesn't work. It did for the earliest strains of Covid which were still killing people at alarmingly high rates, but those rates decline more and more each year even as the mutation of the virus makes it harder to put out vaccines that can keep up. And unlike the flu, which follows a predictable season, Covid (like cold viruses) is year round with smaller spikes during cold weather months. I know you aren't supposed to say things like this because for some reason people are still defining themselves based on their "belief" in Covid and the threat it poses, but the threat (which was very, very real before) is no longer clearly defined. I'll still get a vaccine if it's recommended by my doctor, but if it's made optional I will take that to mean "it doesn't matter" and skip it. Same for my kid. I've never actually ever been asked if my DCPS student has a Covid vaccine (they do, plus a booster). For Covid test results, yes, I've never had to verify the vaccine with anyone from the district. |
Anonymous
DCPS and the teachers union only care about Covid to the extent that it can be used to shut down schools. |
Anonymous
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We still have never had COVID. We’ve had plenty of colds and have tested soooo many times because the school we’re at still requires it.
I take metro 6 + times a week and haven’t masked in a very long time. So there are people who aren’t going to get it. We should not have to vaccinate. |
Anonymous
you may have gotten it without knowing it. we are in similar boat, kids in school and tested loads of time when kids had cold or allergies. we eventually all got Covid except for one kid. well last week she was on vacation with a group of friends, two of which got sick with some respiratory virus. kids tested after 5-6 days and were negative. my kid was not, and is not, sick but because we were going to visit old and immuno depressed grandparent, we just tested her and she is positive. so it's likely that the friends had covid at the beginng of the trip and tested negative at the end just because they got over it. my kid finally got it but has no symptoms whatsoever and we would not have found out if her friends were not obviously sick and did not test her . so some people may not get it, but i bet many more do get Covid but have no particular symptoms and dont realize they get it. |
Anonymous
This attitude is the reason we're going to get Measles back so thanks for that. |