I may think they're sick? Kids coming into school actively coughing and sneezing and refusing to use tissues or wash their hands? They ARE sick. Please, keep them home. |
Children who refuse to wash their hands or use a tissue have absolutely nothing to do with asthmatic coughs or runny nose/sneezing due to allergies. Get off your high horse. |
OP — you might want to do the booster in the next few weeks. It’ll take a couple weeks to really give you full immunity. Do it soon and you’ll be pretty well protected through the end of the year, by which the omicron specific booster should be available for kids. |
I wondered who the nuts are that get kids boosted. US-wide, only 4.5% of 5 to 11 years old and 17% of 12-17 year olds got boosted the first time. It's expected to be much less for this booster too. |
Our pediatrician recommended that our 11 yo get boosted. |
You should ask her or him what studies she or he is using that a healthy 11 yo needs to get boosted. When I asked my pediatrician, they simply said "the CDC's recommendation". When I followed up saying that's not a study and other countries are not even vaccinating kids that age, they said "we [blindly] follow the CDC." I changed pediatricians. |
I trust my pediatrician who has cared for my child for 11 years and has won doctor of the year, as opposed to random COVID denier on the internet. |
It’s okay. I know needles are hard and many people are scared of them, but you can do it. It is a little weird that you let another person inject something into your body, but you can do it. It just hurts for a little while and then it will be okay. It is okay to be scared. We can hold your hand too. |
COVID exists, I just follow the science. Obviously you don't. |
NP. Kids coming into school coughing or sneezing because of asthma or allergies are NOT sick, so those aren't the kids the first PP was talking about. Obviously. Equally obvious is that people can easily mistake a kid with asthma or allergies for a sick child. |
![]() - signed a parent of asthmatic kids whose pediatrician and friend (also a pediatrician) recommended boosting my kids AND have boosted their own kids. |
So they should stay in their lane. |
Yes, pediatricians in this area have gone completely off the rails, with the forced masking and recommending vaccinations to toddlers that no one in the US or the world is getting (the US uptake for toddlers is a whopping 2%). The new booster % is out for adults in the US - 2% too! What research are they using? Regular asthma is not a comorbidity? |
You shouldn’t. My doc said docs are being threatened if they don’t recommend it |
Not everyone has been infected. Odds are you have a MAGA sign in the window of your garden apartment. |