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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP back.  Thank you to those who responded.  For those whose camps are requiring it, have they said why?  Unless everyone gets boosted a month before camp, it is not going to do anything to protect the camp community from transmission (and even a month before the effect is limited).[/quote]

They don't have to.

Don't send your kid.

It's a weed out, use your brain. These are businesses. They need kids to attend. They want to minimize the outbreaks. Parents who care about whether their kid gets and spreads covid will  attend the others will go else where.

Is this a perfect solution of course not and they know that.

If you don't like it go to another camp.[/quote]

This.  Even if the booster is less effective by the time the kid goes to camp, requiring boosters means that the kids at the camp will overall be more protected against covid generally.  Also, people who are fully vaccinated are more likely to take reasonable precautions against covid generally and therefore are less likely to send their kids to camp with covid.  Finally, the policy has the effect of weeding out anti-vax covid-deniers who are more likely to bring covid into the camp.

If anyone is inclined to respond that some source now says none of this thinking is correct, include a link to the studies supporting your position or I’m not going to bother responding. [/quote]

https://yournews.com/2023/02/10/2507676/cleveland-clinic-confirms-that-immune-system-function-decreases-with-each/

From the Cleveland Clinic, no less.[/quote]

If you can cite to the Cleveland Clinic study directly, I will take a look.  But links to rando sites purporting to summarize studies they may not properly represent do not qualify. [/quote]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v1.full.pdf[/quote]

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