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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]100% expected this and I expect many more studies with similar results. Honestly, I expect the actual difference is much higher. [/quote]

I wonder if this will spread to development into early childhood and throughout their growth though?[/quote]

DP, I think the delays can be made up, but kids who would normally be in child care need to actually be in child care … which means day cares need to drop their restrictive policies that exclude kids for days for the sniffles. The policies are leading some parents to drop day care entirely and try to keep working with little kids at home, or to use family (often elderly/retired) as child care, some of whom can’t keep up with a more active older baby or young toddler.[b] Return child care policies to February 2020 and these problems will start to ease.[/b] [/quote]

Kind of hard to do when 100% of daycare kids are unvaccinated and most were born into the pandemic in the first place. [/quote]

Mandate vaccines for child care workers and return other child care policies to where they were 2 years ago. Yes there’s risk to young babies from Covid, especially Covid/RSV co-infection. But as we see here, there’s also a lot of long-term risk to restrictive child care policies. [/quote]

They'll return to 2 years ago just as soon as vaccines for the young babies are approved and not before. Please do not forget that if your kid was NOT vaccinated for measles, rubella, whooping cough, chickenpox etc pre-2020 they were not ALLOWED IN THE FACILITIES AT ALL.

We have vaccination requirements for a damned good reason.

https://scdhec.gov/sites/default/files/Library/ML-025708.pdf[/quote]

You’re going to be waiting a very long time, I think. They can’t find a dose that triggers an immune response in 2-5 year olds while also not triggering massive side effects. We may never have a Covid vaccine for 2-5 or under 2’s. So you’re just going to shrug and tell people to deal with it … forever? Even though babies are basically being left in containers or cribs at home while their parents try to juggle work and this is causing babies and toddlers to be delayed? Huh. That’s really something. [/quote]

At the age of 3 - kids in D.C. are in universal pre-school. Which is open and educating our youngest. So no - not forever.

And if those under 3 cannot be vaccinated without triggering worse outcomes in their fragile health systems, I'd be very seriously worried about them catching Covid in crowded environments if I was their parent. [/quote]

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