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[b]How are the immunocompromised kids not put in grave danger each and every winter by influenza?  The flu is deadly to these kids.  [/b]

Are you suggesting ALL kids wear masks forever?

I don't follow your logic.  Please explain. [/quote]
I realize that this thread is dying on its own, but I've been thinking a lot about this question.

The difference between Covid and the flu, or any other common illness, is that we don't know enough about how Covid works.  If my immunosuppressed child catches the flu (which he's vaccinated for every year, though there's always a bit of a crapshoot as to whether his immune system will actually work with the vaccine), his doctors understand how the disease progresses and where the worry points are.  There's a century + of medical knowledge about how the flu has been treated and what does and doesn't work.  Flu has infected enough people over time that there's data about what it does in all sorts of populations.

At this point we [i]roughly[/i] know what Covid does to standard adult bodies.  Some information about how it affects diabetics, smokers, pregnant women, but only 18 or so months worth of data.  Some transplant kids have caught Covid and needed hospitalization, others have recovered at home--but the numbers are so, so small that no wider conclusions can be drawn.  Is my child more likely to develop long Covid?  Is the disease more likely to attack his transplanted organ, and if so what's the best treatment protocol?  What is long Covid, and is my child more or less likely to develop it?

Knowledge about Covid is slender in the first place; even more so in types of vulnerable populations.  If my child catches it, even his very well-informed medical team wouldn't really know what to do next, whereas there's a clear, data-based plan for flu or other known diseases.  .    [/quote]

DCPS will give you a voucher for private school if they agree with you that your immunocompromised child simply cannot return to in-person school, under any conditions.[/quote]

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