Asking visitors to have Covid shots?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s not necessary to require the most recent Covid shot. Flu and TDAP, absolutely, plus hand washing and no visiting if you’re even a little sick.

But Covid is generally not that dangerous for babies and my understand of the shots is that they more improve immune response/seriousness of illness but NOT transmission. So I don’t think they even help protect your baby. Check with your doctor, but my guess is that’s not an important

The bolded is absolutely not true. Babies under 1 have among the highest risk of complications. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-in-babies-and-children/art-20484405

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Verify by asking for the vaccine card too 🙄.

I know you’re being sarcastic, but OP, if you do ask people to get vaxed, do not offer proof of vax. I would happily get my shots, but I would not provide proof to you. That’s a bridge too far.

[Anonymous]

Why not just limit all visitors for those first four months?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s not necessary to require the most recent Covid shot. Flu and TDAP, absolutely, plus hand washing and no visiting if you’re even a little sick.

But Covid is generally not that dangerous for babies and my understand of the shots is that they more improve immune response/seriousness of illness but NOT transmission. So I don’t think they even help protect your baby. Check with your doctor, but my guess is that’s not an important

Please stop spreading misinformation- Covid, flu, rsv are deadly for babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have asked anyone coming to visit and be around our baby during the frist two months to have a recent Flu shot, Dtap and an annual Covid shot. Some family members gave us a bit of a hard time with this. I just realized however that our baby won't have a Covid shot until he is 6 months old.

Is it necessary that I require the the recent covid shot? How could we even require this between 2-6 months. DH and I have to go back to work at 4 months.

Covid shots don’t make them less likely to give your baby Covid for very long (a few weeks at most). Plus measles and RSV are bigger risks for your baby’s health.

Talk to your ped to make these decisions not DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s not necessary to require the most recent Covid shot. Flu and TDAP, absolutely, plus hand washing and no visiting if you’re even a little sick.

But Covid is generally not that dangerous for babies and my understand of the shots is that they more improve immune response/seriousness of illness but NOT transmission. So I don’t think they even help protect your baby. Check with your doctor, but my guess is that’s not an important

Please stop spreading misinformation- Covid, flu, rsv are deadly for babies.

Yes but there are still degrees of dangerousness. And Covid shots save lives - but are most effective at saving the lives of the people who got them, rather than others. Forbidding discussion of the science won’t help anyone make decisions.

[Anonymous]

What does your pediatrician say? Oh wait, you probably don’t have one yet. Come back after you have one.

A thousand bucks says that the ped recommends that people can visit as long as they’re masked, not sick, hands are washed and they never touch the baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a baby gets a fever it will likely need a spinal tap. I would do a lot to try and avoid that!

Who told you that nonsense? Babies get fevers all the time. They definitely don't quickly jump to doing a lumbar puncture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s not necessary to require the most recent Covid shot. Flu and TDAP, absolutely, plus hand washing and no visiting if you’re even a little sick.

But Covid is generally not that dangerous for babies and my understand of the shots is that they more improve immune response/seriousness of illness but NOT transmission. So I don’t think they even help protect your baby. Check with your doctor, but my guess is that’s not an important

The bolded is absolutely not true. Babies under 1 have among the highest risk of complications. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-in-babies-and-children/art-20484405

That's a bit misleading without additional context. The overall rate of mortality is low in infants, and the rate of hospitalizations for other infections is higher in infants then older kids/adults- the higher hospitalization rate isn't unique to covid and doesn't show a meaningfully increased overall risk. Basically, covid isn't something to be uniquely or particularly worried about, even in infants.

[Anonymous]

There is no such thing as an annual covid shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing as an annual covid shot.

What would you call the covid shot that is annually updated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s not necessary to require the most recent Covid shot. Flu and TDAP, absolutely, plus hand washing and no visiting if you’re even a little sick.

But Covid is generally not that dangerous for babies and my understand of the shots is that they more improve immune response/seriousness of illness but NOT transmission. So I don’t think they even help protect your baby. Check with your doctor, but my guess is that’s not an important

The bolded is absolutely not true. Babies under 1 have among the highest risk of complications. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-in-babies-and-children/art-20484405

That's a bit misleading without additional context. The overall rate of mortality is low in infants, and the rate of hospitalizations for other infections is higher in infants then older kids/adults- the higher hospitalization rate isn't unique to covid and doesn't show a meaningfully increased overall risk. Basically, covid isn't something to be uniquely or particularly worried about, even in infants.

+1

And that’s not even what that article says. It says “Babies under age 1 might be at higher risk of serious illness with COVID-19 than are older children. This may be mostly due to the fact that babies born prematurely have the highest risk.”

So yes, higher risk THAN OTHER CHILDREN (who are very low risk) And that’s driven by premature babies which presumably this isn’t (since OP would have mentioned).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s not necessary to require the most recent Covid shot. Flu and TDAP, absolutely, plus hand washing and no visiting if you’re even a little sick.

But Covid is generally not that dangerous for babies and my understand of the shots is that they more improve immune response/seriousness of illness but NOT transmission. So I don’t think they even help protect your baby. Check with your doctor, but my guess is that’s not an important

Please stop spreading misinformation- Covid, flu, rsv are deadly for babies.

I’m the PP. Flu and RSV are deadly for babies. Covid may not pose as high a risk to babies. I’m hardly an anti-science extremist. I’m saying talk to your doctor. But my guess is, particularly given the way that Covid vaccines work, that that may not be a hill with dying on.

—Someone who has gotten a covid vaccine every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s not necessary to require the most recent Covid shot. Flu and TDAP, absolutely, plus hand washing and no visiting if you’re even a little sick.

But Covid is generally not that dangerous for babies and my understand of the shots is that they more improve immune response/seriousness of illness but NOT transmission. So I don’t think they even help protect your baby. Check with your doctor, but my guess is that’s not an important

Please stop spreading misinformation- Covid, flu, rsv are deadly for babies.

I’m the PP. Flu and RSV are deadly for babies. Covid may not pose as high a risk to babies. I’m hardly an anti-science extremist. I’m saying talk to your doctor. But my guess is, particularly given the way that Covid vaccines work, that that may not be a hill with dying on.

—Someone who has gotten a covid vaccine every year.

By a loose definition of "deadly". The infection fatality rate of influenza in infants is about 1 in 10,000.

That's similar to the annual risk of an adult dying in a car accident.

[Anonymous]

Are you going to check the records? I would just lie to you if I wanted to visit and would not visit if I didn’t want to. You can say I am horrible but I am afraid these are common reactions to demands like that