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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Struggling with this decision now. Was leaning towards sending my son on Monday but now thinking I should keep him home. Argh!!

Very worried about long term unknown consequences - particularly brain damage TBD where there is some evidence this is happening. [/quote]

I hate to break it to you, but getting COVID is going to be unavoidable. You can avoid it in the short term, maybe. But not in the medium term or long term unless you 100% shelter in place. We are all getting it multiple times over our lives. I’d avoid getting it now if possible because it’s such a big surge on the system. But not getting COVID is now a pipe dream. [/quote]

NP So? Wanting to delay the COVID+ until after vaccination is a reasonable goal. Or wanting to delay it as long as possible if you have a newborn in the home.[/quote]

Obviously avoiding it for as long as possible until vaccination IS my goal as the mother of a DD 2 who cannot be vaccinated. But the earliest she may be vaccinated is maybe midway through this year, likely later… unfortunately I don’t think a lockdown of our family for 6 months+ Required for such a contagious variant is sustainable. We send them to a school that is amazing at COVID precautions including masking, required vaccination, predominantly outdoors, well ventilated classrooms. But there have still been a couple cases of Delta. And we still sent them given the risk. I was mostly commenting about the brain stuff—vaccination won’t protect your child from getting a mild case of COVID which any case of Covid could lead to issues, vaccinated or not, vaccinations help reduce risk but don’t eliminate it. So unfortunately, if that’s what your worried about, that’s going to be really tough. And I totally agree the calculus may be different during a surge if you have a newborn—the decisions I make about my 2 and 5 year old are very different than the decisions I’d make if it was 3 and 0. I’d probably not send the 3 year old until the surge passed because a sick newborn with any fever is really dangerous and hospitals are already strained. My point is—all of this sucks to navigate. And I’m sending my kids in tomorrow if school is even open. That’s me though.[/quote]

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