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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I seriously think it may never happen. The under-5 population very unlikely to experience severe disease, by orders of magnitude. The efficacy against Omicron and whatever comes next is going to be too low to justify the blanket vaccination of under-5s. Basically, unless a kid has some kind of co-morbidity, I think this is going to be a 5-and-up vaccine. [/quote]

I sort of agree with this. I’m extremely pro vaccine myself and am upset there doesn’t seem to be an effective vaccine for kids, but it doesn’t sound like the current vaccines are doing much to prevent infection, spread or side effects in the under 5s and it seems questionable to enforce mass inoculation if that is the case. If that is true, I hope the CDC just comes out and says it. [/quote]

I'm in this boat. One reason I am not as bothered as others seem to be about the fact that no vaccine has been made available to under 5s is that everything we know about these vaccines is that they don't do much. I too want to free my child from the burden of constant quarantines and masking, but I don't really understand why the only pathway to do that is to give our kids a vaccine that doesn't protect them.

I'm probably also the wrong person to ask because my kid is now almost 5 and we'll get her the 5-11 vaccine then. Though even that one has turned out to not be very effective! But at least my kid will be in the "vaccine eligible" group and therefore it's slightly more likely that she will be able to go to school without a mask and avoid long quarantines. I think the conclusion I've reached is that there is no point in me pinning hopes for my kids safety on vaccines -- I just have to acclimate to the [albeit small] risk of Covid for her and incorporate it into our day-to-day life, the same way I've incorporated other threats to her health and safety.[/quote]

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