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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I would.  As Emily Oster points out in this article, statistically your unvaccinated child is as likely to have a severe case of COVID as a vaccinated adult:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/go-ahead-plan-family-vacation-your-unvaccinated-kids/618313/[/quote]

Lots of us who are more cautious aren't only concerned about our own children and/or their potential for severe illness.[/quote]

ANd few people in the epidemiology community actually respect her.[/quote]

This. She is an economist whose early work had a not insignificant scandal related to it, and has now branched out to comment on the world at large. Really wish she would stay in her lane when it comes to public health stuff. [/quote

Yup, Yup

"To get to your question. I am not an expert on the econ literature and am aware of only two retractions. The first is the paper by Emily Oster, a young economist who engaged in a several-years-long battle with public-health researchers regarding a theory of sex-ratio changes in developing countries. She eventually gave up and admitted that the public-heatlh researchers were right and she was wrong. (But she did not, as far as I know, retract her claims that economists benefit from having a special kind of reasoning.)"

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2012/07/30/15873/

https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/08/troubling-timin.html

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