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

[Anonymous]

We're not getting any more boosters. None of us.

[Anonymous]

No way. None of us. Schools that require or not following the science.

[Anonymous]

No!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Mine got boosted before camp with no ill effects.

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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).

Unethical does not mean what you seem to think it means?

There are just about no adverse reactions to the vaccine in children. Yes, this is bc it’s not as effective too. But unethical? Gimme a break. You are nuts.

[Anonymous]

No way. My kids were more sick from the vaccine than they were from COVID!

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Anonymous wrote:No way. None of us. Schools that require or not following the science.

+1 million

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If they update the strains in the covid vaccine, we'll probably get covid boosters when we go in for our flu shots. I see this as just another part of life post-covid. To be fair, none of us had a bad reaction to the vaccine. If it knocked me out for a few days, I might feel different.

[Anonymous]

At first I didn’t want to get the booster for our kids. I thought it was pointless and they had side effects from the first vaccine. Then I got Covid over the summer and it was so awful that I decided to go ahead and get the boosters for the kids, if it could possibly reduce the chance that they catch it.

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Anonymous wrote:At first I didn’t want to get the booster for our kids. I thought it was pointless and they had side effects from the first vaccine. Then I got Covid over the summer and it was so awful that I decided to go ahead and get the boosters for the kids, if it could possibly reduce the chance that they catch it.

This is how I feel too. I know the vaccine doesn’t prevent illness anymore like it used to with the alpha strain but if it keeps them from getting half as sick as I did it will be worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:At first I didn’t want to get the booster for our kids. I thought it was pointless and they had side effects from the first vaccine. Then I got Covid over the summer and it was so awful that I decided to go ahead and get the boosters for the kids, if it could possibly reduce the chance that they catch it.

This is how I feel too. I know the vaccine doesn’t prevent illness anymore like it used to with the alpha strain but if it keeps them from getting half as sick as I did it will be worth it.

Fair enough. However, kids are less likely to get as sick as adults, regardless of vaccination status. We have data that supports that. And there is zero data to show that boosted kids have less severe illness. That’s just a random guess on your part and likely will prove to be an incorrect assumption when we have more data.

But if it makes you feel better, then boost away.

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Anonymous wrote:At first I didn’t want to get the booster for our kids. I thought it was pointless and they had side effects from the first vaccine. Then I got Covid over the summer and it was so awful that I decided to go ahead and get the boosters for the kids, if it could possibly reduce the chance that they catch it.

This is how I feel too. I know the vaccine doesn’t prevent illness anymore like it used to with the alpha strain but if it keeps them from getting half as sick as I did it will be worth it.

Fair enough. However, kids are less likely to get as sick as adults, regardless of vaccination status. We have data that supports that. And there is zero data to show that boosted kids have less severe illness. That’s just a random guess on your part and likely will prove to be an incorrect assumption when we have more data.

But if it makes you feel better, then boost away.

There is plenty of data showing that boosted adults have less severe illness, so doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to assume the same applies to kids.

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Anonymous wrote:At first I didn’t want to get the booster for our kids. I thought it was pointless and they had side effects from the first vaccine. Then I got Covid over the summer and it was so awful that I decided to go ahead and get the boosters for the kids, if it could possibly reduce the chance that they catch it.

This is how I feel too. I know the vaccine doesn’t prevent illness anymore like it used to with the alpha strain but if it keeps them from getting half as sick as I did it will be worth it.

Fair enough. However, kids are less likely to get as sick as adults, regardless of vaccination status. We have data that supports that. And there is zero data to show that boosted kids have less severe illness. That’s just a random guess on your part and likely will prove to be an incorrect assumption when we have more data.

But if it makes you feel better, then boost away.

There is plenty of data showing that boosted adults have less severe illness, so doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to assume the same applies to kids.

Maybe. Could be true. But we also have plenty of solid evidence that Covid affects kids much less severely than it affects adults 55+. The severity of illness for 7 year olds would likely be less, regardless of a booster.

Any medical intervention needs to show that it provides an actual benefit. And we do not have data showing that is true with regards to boosters and kids.

That is why mandates for kids are unacceptable. We don’t and we shouldn’t set mandates based on ‘assumptions’. We base them on data. (Or, at least we should - that has not been the case with our public health agencies when it comes to Covid and kids.)

[Anonymous]

Who here is advocating mandates? My kids had zero side effects with their first two shots but I’ve seen a number of kids get pretty sick from COVID. If a booster doesn’t hurt and might help (especially with cutting down on sick days at school) I see no reason not to get it.

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No. The responses are pretty overwhelming.