Is your 5-11 year-old boosted before school starts?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Myocarditis chances are much higher with a covid infection than with the vaccine, fwiw.

In case you haven’t notice, the vaccine doesn’t prevent infection.

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Anonymous wrote:We had our kids boosted when it was approved (in May I think?). We all got Covid in July. 5 year old had almost no symptoms, 8 year old was sick for 2 days with cold symptoms and then recovered quickly. Mid-40s DH and I were down for 2 weeks. It was rough. We were also boosted, but back in December.

I will happily get as many Covid shots as they approve because I can't imagine having it without the immune protection. It was awful. We did fully recover, no lingering issues, but I do not want a repeat if I can avoid it.

Weren’t you boosted already though? Plus, an infection is sort of like a booster.

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Yes. As soon as it was offered. Will do so again.

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Anonymous wrote:We had our kids boosted when it was approved (in May I think?). We all got Covid in July. 5 year old had almost no symptoms, 8 year old was sick for 2 days with cold symptoms and then recovered quickly. Mid-40s DH and I were down for 2 weeks. It was rough. We were also boosted, but back in December.

I will happily get as many Covid shots as they approve because I can't imagine having it without the immune protection. It was awful. We did fully recover, no lingering issues, but I do not want a repeat if I can avoid it.

My 8 year old was not boosted when she got it in July and she had a headache for 12 hours and that was her only symptom. Kids that age aren't going to get very sick. I don't think you can attribute a child's mild illness to getting boosted.

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Anonymous wrote:We had our kids boosted when it was approved (in May I think?). We all got Covid in July. 5 year old had almost no symptoms, 8 year old was sick for 2 days with cold symptoms and then recovered quickly. Mid-40s DH and I were down for 2 weeks. It was rough. We were also boosted, but back in December.

I will happily get as many Covid shots as they approve because I can't imagine having it without the immune protection. It was awful. We did fully recover, no lingering issues, but I do not want a repeat if I can avoid it.

My 8 year old was not boosted when she got it in July and she had a headache for 12 hours and that was her only symptom. Kids that age aren't going to get very sick. I don't think you can attribute a child's mild illness to getting boosted.

This. Kid likely would have had a mild illness even if he/she was not boosted.

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Anonymous wrote:anyone have any educated guess on when they will have a remixed booster available for teens or kids? Mine all had it a few months ago so we’ve been waiting on booster and would ideally hold out for the new mix.

Our ped was very hesitant when we asked him this question. It probably won't be available for adults until late Fall, so teens/kids maybe sometime next year? They're not a priority.

WH said yesterday that the timeframe for the updated booster is 3 weeks. So early September.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/updated-covid-boosters-weeks-white-house-predicts/story?id=88462014

Did you read that article? There's a ton of hedging. Pfizer or Moderna releasing data in three weeks isn't the same as them being available to adults who want them.

As for kids, again, it'll be a while. Maybe sooner for teens.

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Yes, our pediatrician recommended it.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ll be getting it. DD’s best friend (10) just had COVID and was sick with a high fever for 5 days. She missed two full weeks of camp.

PP, was her best friend vaccinated before?

Yes, she was. Both initial doses but no booster.

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Mine aren't even vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine aren't even vaccinated.

You are in the majority. According to the AAP, 70% of kids age 5-11 are also not vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, overnight camp required it.

Oh wow. I’m sorry, that is just terrible. I can’t believe places are still enforcing vaccine mandates/booster mandates. Especially for kids!

I didn't think it was a bad thing.

It was definitely not a sound public health decision. And possibly unethical for them to require it based on the data we have.

This is nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, overnight camp required it.

Oh wow. I’m sorry, that is just terrible. I can’t believe places are still enforcing vaccine mandates/booster mandates. Especially for kids!

I didn't think it was a bad thing.

It was definitely not a sound public health decision. And possibly unethical for them to require it based on the data we have.

This is nonsense.

Can you back up your own nonsensical claim with data? Please post a link showing that mandating Covid boosters for kids age 5-11 lowers the rate of Covid transmission (at camp or elsewhere).

You can’t because no such data exists.

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Anonymous wrote:We had our kids boosted when it was approved (in May I think?). We all got Covid in July. 5 year old had almost no symptoms, 8 year old was sick for 2 days with cold symptoms and then recovered quickly. Mid-40s DH and I were down for 2 weeks. It was rough. We were also boosted, but back in December.

I will happily get as many Covid shots as they approve because I can't imagine having it without the immune protection. It was awful. We did fully recover, no lingering issues, but I do not want a repeat if I can avoid it.

My 8 year old was not boosted when she got it in July and she had a headache for 12 hours and that was her only symptom. Kids that age aren't going to get very sick. I don't think you can attribute a child's mild illness to getting boosted.

This. Kid likely would have had a mild illness even if he/she was not boosted.

+1. My unvaccinated toddler got covid and had basically no symptoms. I had had three shots at the time (last January when everyone had covid) and was way sicker than him. The vaccines aren’t doing much for kids. Everyone knows this by now.

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Anonymous wrote:We had our kids boosted when it was approved (in May I think?). We all got Covid in July. 5 year old had almost no symptoms, 8 year old was sick for 2 days with cold symptoms and then recovered quickly. Mid-40s DH and I were down for 2 weeks. It was rough. We were also boosted, but back in December.

I will happily get as many Covid shots as they approve because I can't imagine having it without the immune protection. It was awful. We did fully recover, no lingering issues, but I do not want a repeat if I can avoid it.

My 8 year old was not boosted when she got it in July and she had a headache for 12 hours and that was her only symptom. Kids that age aren't going to get very sick. I don't think you can attribute a child's mild illness to getting boosted.

This. Kid likely would have had a mild illness even if he/she was not boosted.

+1. My unvaccinated toddler got covid and had basically no symptoms. I had had three shots at the time (last January when everyone had covid) and was way sicker than him. The vaccines aren’t doing much for kids. Everyone knows this by now.

That is exactly why any kind of Covid vaccine mandate involving children is completely unethical. You can’t require children to undergo an irreversible medical procedure when there is not enough of a benefit to that child (or to society, in this case).

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Anonymous wrote:We had our kids boosted when it was approved (in May I think?). We all got Covid in July. 5 year old had almost no symptoms, 8 year old was sick for 2 days with cold symptoms and then recovered quickly. Mid-40s DH and I were down for 2 weeks. It was rough. We were also boosted, but back in December.

I will happily get as many Covid shots as they approve because I can't imagine having it without the immune protection. It was awful. We did fully recover, no lingering issues, but I do not want a repeat if I can avoid it.

My 8 year old was not boosted when she got it in July and she had a headache for 12 hours and that was her only symptom. Kids that age aren't going to get very sick. I don't think you can attribute a child's mild illness to getting boosted.

This. Kid likely would have had a mild illness even if he/she was not boosted.

+1. My unvaccinated toddler got covid and had basically no symptoms. I had had three shots at the time (last January when everyone had covid) and was way sicker than him. The vaccines aren’t doing much for kids. Everyone knows this by now.

Yeah, but this isn't true across the board. It totally depends on the kid. And unfortunately it's hard to know which kids might be more impacted. I know some kids who've gotten really sick from COVID and others who weren't affected at all.