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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s maybe best not to lump in teens and younger children. Their bodies are different (and changing) so they are not physically the same as children or adults. Secondly, the Netherlands (which also kept their schools open etc) DID authorize vaccines for 12-15 so obviously their medical regulators reached a very different conclusion than the UK regulators. (And the spacing out was mostly due to scarcity of vaccines not because they confirm more immunity with a single dose or whatever nonsense you’re telling yourself contrary to the the evidence emerging that the single dose of Pfizer is NOT anything close to as protective as the double dose.)

I don’t believe the situation is at all comparable to last year in many ways though we will have to see what happens in the areas with low vaccination rates that also are not enforcing mask mandates in schools. DC has a mask mandate and opportunities for all adults and all kids over 12 to be vaccinated which *should* protect younger kids in their households alongside the masks mandated in schools. I also think it’s unlikely that DC will go it alone - MD and VA schools in the areas contiguous to DC ALSO closed down for much of last year but if they’re open, I doubt the mayor will close JUST DC.

With that said if there’s a surprise awaiting us in August, my fully vaxxed middle schooler is going to live with family in New England for the school year.

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I agree with not lumping together an age group that can be vaccinated with one that cannot, for the sake of discussing school shifting to virtual.
The spacing was indeed due to a different strategy, of getting their first shot to as many people as possible. The consequence of that, however, may be a longer lasting immunity, which has been brought up to explain the difference between UK and Israel's latest data on delta breakthrough in vaccinated people.[/quote]

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