Does Potomac require the Covid vaccine?
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Anonymous
That is not correct. Germany does not recommend covid vaccination in youth under age 18. This url is in German but you can use a translator: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Kommissionen/STIKO/Empfehlungen/PM_2023-04-25.html "Routine COVID-19 vaccination (primary or booster) is not recommended for healthy children and adolescents under the age of 18. Among the omicron variants, the disease severity (including potential long-term consequences) in this age group has developed towards predominantly mild or asymptomatic courses. The evidence available to date shows that SARS-CoV-2 infections in children and adolescents are generally unproblematic. The STIKO therefore no longer recommends vaccination in this age group." In addition, people aged 18-59 are not recommended for an annual booster: "The STIKO is updating its COVID-19 vaccination recommendation: In future, it will recommend an annual booster vaccination for people with an increased risk of developing a severe course of the disease (people aged 60 and over, people aged 6 months and over with relevant underlying diseases, residents of care facilities) and for people with increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection (medical and nursing staff). People between the ages of 18 and 59 without underlying diseases are recommended to achieve basic immunity, consisting of at least 2 vaccinations and another antigen contact (vaccination or infection)." |
Anonymous
Potomac parent and the school could not be further from Trump territory. It’s progressive but leans left. |
Anonymous
Schools contemplating vaccine requirements for the fall should consider recent studies, like this one from the Cleveland Clinic which evaluated the bivalent booster: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v1.full "There were too few severe illnesses for the study to be able to determine if the vaccine decreased severity of illness." "The risk of COVID-19 also varied by the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses previously received. The higher the number of vaccines previously received, the higher the risk of contracting COVID-19 (Figure 2)." "The association of increased risk of COVID-19 with higher numbers of prior vaccine doses in our study, was unexpected. This is not the only study to find a possible association with more prior vaccine doses and higher risk of COVID-19. A large study found that those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving three doses of vaccine had a higher risk of reinfection than those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving two doses of vaccine [21]. Another study found that receipt of two or three doses of a mRNA vaccine following prior COVID-19 was associated with a higher risk of reinfection than receipt of a single dose [7]. We still have a lot to learn about protection from COVID-19 vaccination, and in addition to a vaccine’s effectiveness it is important to examine whether multiple vaccine doses given over time may not be having the beneficial effect that is generally assumed." |
Anonymous
| For those showing all the evidence that the COVID vaccine is not even recommended in European countries, you're talking to ideological nuts who don't follow the science. Force vaxxing people is now a political test, even though like a minority of kids under 12 in the US are vaccinated (and a really tiny % under 5). |
Anonymous
It's the only way to fight Fascism... |
Anonymous
It's actually really sad that DC is the complete outlier for the United States with most private schools requiring vaccination. Pretty much every other city has dropped this requirement in the face of evidence and/or backlash. I am sure you can pull up some schools elsewhere that require it but by and large, DC is unique. Europe as a whole took a much more measured and cautious approach with regards to any sort of restrictions on children, not looking at Spain in the early days who literally locked their children inside for months (there were even articles about weight gain in children and how this created different issues). Europe generally doesn't turn to medical intervention at the sign of a sniffle and are certainly much more cautious about what goes into your body- from what's allowed in food to toothpaste to recommended/required vaccines. |
Anonymous
| We're still talking about this? There's a boatload of vaccines your child MUST have - by law - before they can start kindergarten. What's another vaccine? |
Anonymous
Yes, we are still talking about this since every other vaccine actually prevents whatever it's intended to protect against. There is also overwhelming evidence the benefits outweigh the risks for all the other vaccines. Neither is the case for the COVID vaccines. |
Anonymous
My youngest is nine and she and her siblings are all vaxxed and boosted. Was it the right call? We think so. Was it an absolute slam dunk? No. The bolded is not how medicine and science work. |
Anonymous
Or you can just refuse on religious grounds. |
Anonymous
Isn't the COVID vaccine still not even fully approved for children under 12? Why are we having discussions about something being mandated that's only authorised under an emergency that is about to expire? How will it continue to be an emergency authorisation after May 11? Very curious about the mental gymnastics needed for this. |
Anonymous
Last line above is simply untrue. Many vaccines are intended to prevent hospitalization and death. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Oh yeah, an elective procedure after having kids is ExAcTlY the same |
Anonymous
You a doc? |