How will DCPS elementary schools be in person 5 days/week if little kids are not vaccinated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vaccinating children will help keep any circulating virus at bay. This will help any children not get sick but also protect the members of our society who are immunocompromised or immunosuppressed. It will save lives.

I hope that people can see beyond their own families at this point after living through this past year. There is no serious cause for concern with these vaccines. They will be approved if they are as safe as they appear. Even the question of heart inflammation is not known to be above what would otherwise be expected in the general population.

Please, if you have any reservations about vaccinating your children, speak directly to a trusted healthcare provider and do not just read internet trolls.

^this^

And hope the physician posting that doesn't understand this isn't really a physician at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Physician here. I got the vaccine in December as soon as I possibly could. I will likely never vaccinate my under age 12 kids. The risk of the vaccine is likely greater than any risk to them.

What I will never do is vaccinate them based on the hysteria of other people.

Signed,
Not really a physician

DP. Of course, when someone disagrees with you, you have to impugn their credentials, rather than making an actual argument.

It's simply too dumb of a statement. Ah yes, I will vaccinate my 13 year old but OMG not my 10 year old!
They are both children, once CDC clears it for younger kids there won't be a leg to stand on except 'I am an anti-vax fool'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Physician here. I got the vaccine in December as soon as I possibly could. I will likely never vaccinate my under age 12 kids. The risk of the vaccine is likely greater than any risk to them.

What I will never do is vaccinate them based on the hysteria of other people.

Signed,
Not really a physician

DP. Of course, when someone disagrees with you, you have to impugn their credentials, rather than making an actual argument.

It's simply too dumb of a statement. Ah yes, I will vaccinate my 13 year old but OMG not my 10 year old!
They are both children, once CDC clears it for younger kids there won't be a leg to stand on except 'I am an anti-vax fool'

The CDC isn’t the agency that clears vaccines for anyone. If you don’t even know who is in charge of this process…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Physician here. I got the vaccine in December as soon as I possibly could. I will likely never vaccinate my under age 12 kids. The risk of the vaccine is likely greater than any risk to them.

What I will never do is vaccinate them based on the hysteria of other people.

Signed,
Not really a physician

DP. Of course, when someone disagrees with you, you have to impugn their credentials, rather than making an actual argument.

It's simply too dumb of a statement. Ah yes, I will vaccinate my 13 year old but OMG not my 10 year old!
They are both children, once CDC clears it for younger kids there won't be a leg to stand on except 'I am an anti-vax fool'

Wish this wasn't an anonymous board so we would know not to see this moron for actual medical attention. Probably just a troll; Dr's are supposed to be well educated, intelligent professionals. A real physician wouldn't spread this Fox News nonsense on an anonymous board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Yes it will be back to normal. Cases are single digits in moco and nova. Dc can’t be far behind but the black folks really need to get vaccinated. Fair fax county had one case today. Over a million people. Get it through your thick scull. It will be “safe” in the fall. It’s safe now.

This is why. There is literally next to no Covid in the community anymore and there will be less in the fall. There will be far more flu circling around AND the flu is far deadlier to kids.

This. People are so insane about covid they aren’t paying any attention to science. Covid is not a big deal for kids. Flu is more dangerous and for many years we’ve still been ok with it.

No. Covid causes more complications than the flu in kids and teens. June 2021.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/cuim-iyc060721.php

[Anonymous]

Less than half of ADULTS in DC are vaccinated. Maybe you should focus on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it will be back to normal. Cases are single digits in moco and nova. Dc can’t be far behind but the black folks really need to get vaccinated. Fair fax county had one case today. Over a million people. Get it through your thick scull. It will be “safe” in the fall. It’s safe now.

This is why. There is literally next to no Covid in the community anymore and there will be less in the fall. There will be far more flu circling around AND the flu is far deadlier to kids.

This. People are so insane about covid they aren’t paying any attention to science. Covid is not a big deal for kids. Flu is more dangerous and for many years we’ve still been ok with it.

No. Covid causes more complications than the flu in kids and teens. June 2021.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/cuim-iyc060721.php

But mostly for those with comorbidities. They should focus on vaccinating those kids. Which, by the way is common practice for the flu vaccine as well. Germany, for instance, doesn’t routinely vaccinate healthy children for the flu. (For the record, my kids get the flu shot every year, despite being healthy.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Less than half of ADULTS in DC are vaccinated. Maybe you should focus on that.

+1. That would eliminate almost all of the risk for schools.

[Anonymous]

They announced that they will be open five days a week, with masks required. I think that, barring some kind of really unexpected spike in cases in the area, they will be open five days a week, full time. There might be a few other adjustments (and possibly some generally useful HVAC improvements in schools that need them) but I expect them to be open. They were pretty unequivocal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it will be back to normal. Cases are single digits in moco and nova. Dc can’t be far behind but the black folks really need to get vaccinated. Fair fax county had one case today. Over a million people. Get it through your thick scull. It will be “safe” in the fall. It’s safe now.

This is why. There is literally next to no Covid in the community anymore and there will be less in the fall. There will be far more flu circling around AND the flu is far deadlier to kids.

This. People are so insane about covid they aren’t paying any attention to science. Covid is not a big deal for kids. Flu is more dangerous and for many years we’ve still been ok with it.

No. Covid causes more complications than the flu in kids and teens. June 2021.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/cuim-iyc060721.php

But mostly for those with comorbidities. They should focus on vaccinating those kids. Which, by the way is common practice for the flu vaccine as well. Germany, for instance, doesn’t routinely vaccinate healthy children for the flu. (For the record, my kids get the flu shot every year, despite being healthy.)

Sorry, meant to say it’s common practice in other parts of the world.

[Anonymous]

Just a reminder that doctors have said, approximately 1 million times, that no one -- not adults, not teenagers, not young children -- needs to be vaccinated in order for schools to reopen safely.

[Anonymous]

DC has lifted basically all coronavirus restrictions on everyone for virtually everything. This idea that kids needs to be vaccinated for schools to open is complete nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it will be back to normal. Cases are single digits in moco and nova. Dc can’t be far behind but the black folks really need to get vaccinated. Fair fax county had one case today. Over a million people. Get it through your thick scull. It will be “safe” in the fall. It’s safe now.

This is why. There is literally next to no Covid in the community anymore and there will be less in the fall. There will be far more flu circling around AND the flu is far deadlier to kids.

This. People are so insane about covid they aren’t paying any attention to science. Covid is not a big deal for kids. Flu is more dangerous and for many years we’ve still been ok with it.

This “flu is deadlier” argument just isn’t true and I wish people would stop saying it. Please google the latest on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it will be back to normal. Cases are single digits in moco and nova. Dc can’t be far behind but the black folks really need to get vaccinated. Fair fax county had one case today. Over a million people. Get it through your thick scull. It will be “safe” in the fall. It’s safe now.

This is why. There is literally next to no Covid in the community anymore and there will be less in the fall. There will be far more flu circling around AND the flu is far deadlier to kids.

This. People are so insane about covid they aren’t paying any attention to science. Covid is not a big deal for kids. Flu is more dangerous and for many years we’ve still been ok with it.

This “flu is deadlier” argument just isn’t true and I wish people would stop saying it. Please google the latest on this.

Last I saw this study referenced was the NYT:

“The data also run counter to claims that influenza is more threatening to children than Covid-19, an argument that has been used to reopen schools and to question the value of coronavirus vaccines for children.

The number of hospitalizations related to Covid-19 among adolescents in the United States was about three times as high as hospitalizations linked to influenza over three recent flu seasons, the study found.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it will be back to normal. Cases are single digits in moco and nova. Dc can’t be far behind but the black folks really need to get vaccinated. Fair fax county had one case today. Over a million people. Get it through your thick scull. It will be “safe” in the fall. It’s safe now.

This is why. There is literally next to no Covid in the community anymore and there will be less in the fall. There will be far more flu circling around AND the flu is far deadlier to kids.

This. People are so insane about covid they aren’t paying any attention to science. Covid is not a big deal for kids. Flu is more dangerous and for many years we’ve still been ok with it.

This “flu is deadlier” argument just isn’t true and I wish people would stop saying it. Please google the latest on this.

Last I saw this study referenced was the NYT:

“The data also run counter to claims that influenza is more threatening to children than Covid-19, an argument that has been used to reopen schools and to question the value of coronavirus vaccines for children.

The number of hospitalizations related to Covid-19 among adolescents in the United States was about three times as high as hospitalizations linked to influenza over three recent flu seasons, the study found.”

Well, what’s been shown is that Covid hospitalization numbers in kids have been vastly inflated, so that doesn’t seem to be a good metric until we can filter out those who were hospitalized for something else but tested positive upon admission in routine testing. Also, it seems very likely that in the current situation, hospitals are much quicker to admit kids with Covid symptoms than is perhaps necessary.

The study someone else linked above does seem to indicate that Covid causes more at least short term complications in adolescents with comorbidities. But even that doesn’t change the fact that the flu is still deadlier for kids, especially younger ones, as Covid fatalities in kids are thankfully rare.