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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school for preschool has a clause in the contract for the covid vax. Essentially states that if you are eligible for a vaccine you must have it before the 2022 school year. This includes emergency authorization and FDA approved covid vaccines.

Anyone else seeing this? This is a private preschool on the hill.[/quote]

Same.  It’s already in place for the older prek kids who turned five.  [/quote]

If schools are not requiring it then why would preschools? That is a bridge too far.

"But the rate of COVID-vaccine-induced myocarditis doesn’t tell us that much on its own. “The question is, how severe is myocarditis?” says Daniel Salmon, who directs the Johns Hopkins Institute for Vaccine Safety. We still don’t really know. According to the CDC, most patients with post-vaccine myocarditis “felt better quickly,” and “can usually return to their normal daily activities after their symptoms improve.” But no one can say yet whether a bout of vaccine-induced myocarditis now would harm someone’s health in a year, or 10 years, or 50. Salmon told me he wouldn’t support a kids’ mandate until researchers are able to rigorously follow kids who get myocarditis for a year or two, and find no related serious health problems.
Waiting a year or two would also give regulators a chance to see how Americans learn to live with SARS-CoV-2 as an endemic virus, which has its own implications for any potential mandates. Lainie Ross, a pediatrician and bioethicist at the University of Chicago, told me that right now, “what makes this disease unique is that everybody is sort of a virgin” to the virus that causes it. If it doesn’t continue to transform into new and more dangerous variants, and if the vaccines (or natural immunity left by previous infections) remain protective against it, then COVID-19 will likely start to resemble measles or chicken pox: It will become a childhood disease, because every living adult will already have been exposed. That makes the case for childhood mandates much easier.

But if, as some experts (and pharmaceutical-company CEOs) have predicted, the virus changes so much that we’ll need to get a new shot once or twice a year, mandates for schoolchildren would suddenly get a lot more complicated. Most schools track routine vaccinations at particular entry points, like enrollment in kindergarten or middle school, says Seema Mohapatra, a visiting law professor at Southern Methodist University, and they have practiced systems for doing so.

Should the COVID vaccine become an annual shot, “that’s a whole different story,” she told me. The paperwork, she said, would be a nightmare.

Consider the flu vaccine. During the 2019–20 season, 112 children ages 5 to 17 died of flu, yet no state mandates annual flu shots for K–12 students. (Massachusetts announced a mandate in August 2020, then dropped it in January after the flu season turned out to be mild.) In contrast, an average of three children and teens a year died of Hepatitis A in the five years before the two-doses-and-that’s-it vaccine for that disease was licensed. Yet Hepatitis A vaccines are mandatory in grade schools in one-third of states. True, the Hepatitis A vaccine is significantly more effective than the annual flu shot, but the flu arguably presents a much more formidable danger to kids."

If the preschool isnt mandating flu vaccines then they are talking out their butts. [/quote]

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