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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s not necessary to require the most recent Covid shot. Flu and TDAP, absolutely, plus hand washing and no visiting if you’re even a little sick.

[b]But Covid is generally not that dangerous for babies [/b]and my understand of the shots is that they more improve immune response/seriousness of illness but NOT transmission. So I don’t think they even help protect your baby. Check with your doctor, but my guess is that’s not an important [/quote]

The bolded is absolutely not true. Babies under 1 have among the highest risk of complications. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-in-babies-and-children/art-20484405[/quote]

That's a bit misleading without additional context. The overall rate of mortality is low in infants, and the rate of hospitalizations for other infections is higher in infants then older kids/adults- the higher hospitalization rate isn't unique to covid and doesn't show a meaningfully increased overall risk. Basically, covid isn't something to be uniquely or particularly worried about, even in infants.[/quote]

And that’s not even what that article says. It says “Babies under age 1 might be at higher risk of serious illness with COVID-19 than are older children. This may be mostly due to the fact that babies born prematurely have the highest risk.”

So yes, higher risk THAN OTHER CHILDREN (who are very low risk) And that’s driven by premature babies which presumably this isn’t (since OP would have mentioned). [/quote]

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