HHS to scrap covid recommendations for children, pregnant women as Hong Kong pushes pediatric covid jabs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point, the Covid vaccine is absurd. My sibling and parents have all gotten each and every Covid vaccine - and they've all gotten Covid, at least twice a year. What is the point?

I took the initial vaccines when they first came out, but no more. Way too many side effects and it doesn't prevent anyone from getting Covid.

The Covid vaccine is very much needed for immunocompromised people. A covid vaccine doesn’t prevent covid; it makes it less severe. This has always been the case. My daughter has had numerous covid vaccines but has never had covid. You do you. There needs to be vaccines available for those who want them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, the Covid vaccine is absurd. My sibling and parents have all gotten each and every Covid vaccine - and they've all gotten Covid, at least twice a year. What is the point?

I took the initial vaccines when they first came out, but no more. Way too many side effects and it doesn't prevent anyone from getting Covid.

The Covid vaccine is very much needed for immunocompromised people. A covid vaccine doesn’t prevent covid; it makes it less severe. This has always been the case. My daughter has had numerous covid vaccines but has never had covid. You do you. There needs to be vaccines available for those who want them.

Same here. We get the boosters and have never had covid despite living in DC and being repeatedly surrounded by it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While our government will make it more difficult (or impossible?) for a large segment of society to get covid vaccinations, Hong Kong hospitals are advising parents to vaccinate their kids as the hospitals wards are filled with unvaccinated pediatric covid patients. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3310747/hong-kong-children-urged-get-covid-jabs-whole-paediatric-ward-full
Insurance won't pay, that appears clear. But will families still be able to get vaccinations at pharmacies? Will kids be able to get the vaccine at all? https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/covid-vaccine-recommendations-rfk-jr-reportedly-reversing-for-children-pregnant-women/

Why are you doing Covid hysteria 5 years later?

Just stop. If you trust The Science™️ you know that the vaccine neither stops transmission nor infection. And children have the least amount of morbidity from the virus.

Doesn't stop it, but does significantly reduce it.

Show me the numbers and data that support your claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point, the Covid vaccine is absurd. My sibling and parents have all gotten each and every Covid vaccine - and they've all gotten Covid, at least twice a year. What is the point?

I took the initial vaccines when they first came out, but no more. Way too many side effects and it doesn't prevent anyone from getting Covid.

I agree with you on a personal level but to each their own regarding whether or not the Covid vaccine is worthwhile. Government shouldn't be forcing the Covid vaccine on anyone and government shouldn't be creating barriers for anyone who may wish to be vaccinated. Like with most things, less government is better government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody is explaining why taking a vaccine from those that wanted to protect themselves or loved ones away when they had promised not to is a good idea. The vaccine hasn't been mandated anywhere in a long time, what is it harming you if the relative of a cancer patient or a new baby decides to get one to protect them (which they would no longer be allowed to)?

Some school districts are mandating, pointing to CDC recommendation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Couldn't get Bird Flu or Measles to stick, so I guess we need to see if people can panic about Covid again? Got to have something to be afraid of

It killed over a million Americans and you're acting like it didn't even happen. FFS

It seems like the GOP killing of Americans is almost a bonus for them.

A "let's cull the herd of anyone over 50 or already ill" type of thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, the Covid vaccine is absurd. My sibling and parents have all gotten each and every Covid vaccine - and they've all gotten Covid, at least twice a year. What is the point?

I took the initial vaccines when they first came out, but no more. Way too many side effects and it doesn't prevent anyone from getting Covid.

I agree with you on a personal level but to each their own regarding whether or not the Covid vaccine is worthwhile. Government shouldn't be forcing the Covid vaccine on anyone and government shouldn't be creating barriers for anyone who may wish to be vaccinated. Like with most things, less government is better government.

If you believe less government is better government then I encourage you to move to Somalia where they have your utopian paradise of less government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, the Covid vaccine is absurd. My sibling and parents have all gotten each and every Covid vaccine - and they've all gotten Covid, at least twice a year. What is the point?

I took the initial vaccines when they first came out, but no more. Way too many side effects and it doesn't prevent anyone from getting Covid.

I agree with you on a personal level but to each their own regarding whether or not the Covid vaccine is worthwhile. Government shouldn't be forcing the Covid vaccine on anyone and government shouldn't be creating barriers for anyone who may wish to be vaccinated. Like with most things, less government is better government.

Yay, let's go back to medieval times, when things like bubonic plague would routinely wipe out double digit percentages of the population, and when people routinely died from preventable things.

Russian and Chinese troll posters promote minimalistic government in the US, they want to weaken and destroy America. Whackadoo libertarian types also promote minimalistic government in the US, working off of magical thinking and misbelief concluding that they might be the ones to come out ahead in such a scenario. But what's the point of it when it kills the US?

Excessive government is bad, but less government isn't necessarily a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, the Covid vaccine is absurd. My sibling and parents have all gotten each and every Covid vaccine - and they've all gotten Covid, at least twice a year. What is the point?

I took the initial vaccines when they first came out, but no more. Way too many side effects and it doesn't prevent anyone from getting Covid.

I agree with you on a personal level but to each their own regarding whether or not the Covid vaccine is worthwhile. Government shouldn't be forcing the Covid vaccine on anyone and government shouldn't be creating barriers for anyone who may wish to be vaccinated. Like with most things, less government is better government.

Yay, let's go back to medieval times, when things like bubonic plague would routinely wipe out double digit percentages of the population, and when people routinely died from preventable things.

Russian and Chinese troll posters promote minimalistic government in the US, they want to weaken and destroy America. Whackadoo libertarian types also promote minimalistic government in the US, working off of magical thinking and misbelief concluding that they might be the ones to come out ahead in such a scenario. But what's the point of it when it kills the US?

Excessive government is bad, but less government isn't necessarily a good thing.

Yes, less government telling people what they can and can't do with their bodies is absolutely a good thing. You evangelical nut jobs wouldn't understand this concept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived through covid in Hong Kong.

My kids had to take daily rapid tests and temp checks to attend school, for years. (This ended in 2023!)

Masks were required by law, even on the beach, even walking alone on a trail, and this was actually enforced by fines.

Contact tracing was enforced universally via a contract tracing app that you needed to use to enter almost any public space, to include athletic fields and public restrooms.

Any large building had someone with a thermal camera monitoring everyone entering.

There were multi-week quarantines for people entering.(the real kind, where you are put in a hotel room with a camera/alarm watching the door 24x7 and repeatedly given PCR tests.)

Plexiglass was everywhere.

If a dog/cat tested positive it was euthanised.

Hand sanitizer dispensers were ubiquitous.

People worn rubber gloves to avoid touching anything.

It was hellish

And you know what? Covid absolutely tore through here in the end.

Thank you for sharing the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived through covid in Hong Kong.

My kids had to take daily rapid tests and temp checks to attend school, for years. (This ended in 2023!)

Masks were required by law, even on the beach, even walking alone on a trail, and this was actually enforced by fines.

Contact tracing was enforced universally via a contract tracing app that you needed to use to enter almost any public space, to include athletic fields and public restrooms.

Any large building had someone with a thermal camera monitoring everyone entering.

There were multi-week quarantines for people entering.(the real kind, where you are put in a hotel room with a camera/alarm watching the door 24x7 and repeatedly given PCR tests.)

Plexiglass was everywhere.

If a dog/cat tested positive it was euthanised.

Hand sanitizer dispensers were ubiquitous.

People worn rubber gloves to avoid touching anything.

It was hellish

And you know what? Covid absolutely tore through here in the end.

Thank you for sharing the truth.

"Hellish"

Um, no. More like minor inconvenience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While our government will make it more difficult (or impossible?) for a large segment of society to get covid vaccinations, Hong Kong hospitals are advising parents to vaccinate their kids as the hospitals wards are filled with unvaccinated pediatric covid patients. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3310747/hong-kong-children-urged-get-covid-jabs-whole-paediatric-ward-full
Insurance won't pay, that appears clear. But will families still be able to get vaccinations at pharmacies? Will kids be able to get the vaccine at all? https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/covid-vaccine-recommendations-rfk-jr-reportedly-reversing-for-children-pregnant-women/

Is anyone in America even having their children get the jab anymore? I'd be curious about stats on that.

[Anonymous]

This vaccine should have NEVER been on the list for children. Children are not severely affected by Covid.
Glad they are removing it from the list of recommended vaccines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This vaccine should have NEVER been on the list for children. Children are not severely affected by Covid.
Glad they are removing it from the list of recommended vaccines.

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/articles/long-covid-children-adolescents

Unfortunately, the answer is yes — even young children can have lasting effects from COVID-19. A new study co-led by Mass General Brigham investigators found common patterns of lasting symptoms in school-age children and adolescents who previously were infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Using their PASC index, the researchers estimate that in the RECOVER-Pediatrics cohort, 20% of the school-age children who previously had COVID-19 and 14% of the previously infected teenagers most likely had long COVID. These results, along with similar findings from another study published in Pediatrics, indicate that more children may have long COVID than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported as of 2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While our government will make it more difficult (or impossible?) for a large segment of society to get covid vaccinations, Hong Kong hospitals are advising parents to vaccinate their kids as the hospitals wards are filled with unvaccinated pediatric covid patients. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3310747/hong-kong-children-urged-get-covid-jabs-whole-paediatric-ward-full
Insurance won't pay, that appears clear. But will families still be able to get vaccinations at pharmacies? Will kids be able to get the vaccine at all? https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/covid-vaccine-recommendations-rfk-jr-reportedly-reversing-for-children-pregnant-women/

Why are you doing Covid hysteria 5 years later?

Just stop. If you trust The Science™️ you know that the vaccine neither stops transmission nor infection. And children have the least amount of morbidity from the virus.

Doesn't stop it, but does significantly reduce it.

DP. No, it does not. My family members take every single new Covid vaccine and all continue to get Covid. Meanwhile, I stopped after the first vaccines came out and haven't had it since. The vaccine simply does NOT stop Covid.