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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the rationale for dropping masks indoors since they are not vaccinated? I agree, no masks outdoors though. [/quote]

Because they are uncomfortable, interfere with teaching, and uneccesary when there’s extremely low community spread. [/quote]

My kids have not complained about masks while doing IPL. What interferes with learning is going to school 2 hours a day, 4 or 2 days a week, as is the case for my kids in a DCPS ES. Masks while indoors is the easiest thing to keep doing so we can return to a normal schedule until kids can get the vaccine [/quote]

a vaccine for kids may never happen. [/quote]

I'm surprised how little people are talking about this. The FDA recently had a meeting where they were debating whether the rationale for vaccinating children is strong enough given their extremely low risk. Many other countries are only vaccinating high-risk kids.

There is also serious debate going on about whether you can authorize the vaccine under an EUA for small children, again given their extremely low risk. It's not really an emergency for them. Not doing an EUA would definitely push the timeline out further.

It's one of the reasons why Pfizer is testing much lower doses in trials - the tension between whether the vaccine or COVID has more risk for small children. Again, both are likely to be extremely low-risk - but will the vaccines be so much lower risk than already low risk from COVID?

It feels like we are making all sort of policies around the timing of a childrens' vaccine - which may not happen or happen anytime soon - versus measuring the risk of spread in the community. If there is no EUA for the children's vaccine but we're below a 1% positivity rate as we are now and COVID remains low-risk to children, are we going to mask them for another year or two? That just seems unnecessarily harmful.

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THANK YOU for this wise, reasonable post. I agree completely. [/quote]

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