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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unethical?

Would you want to be a teacher exposed to infected kids for 8 hours a day? THAT is unethical.[/quote]

The latest science indicates vaccination has a very short lived effect on infection risk reduction, and I personally had no issue with masking which is really the better way to reduce infection (though again, not particularly with poor quality masking in kids, but high quality N95 style masking is effective and a concerned teacher absolutely should do that).

Ethically, there was strong concern about myocarditis in young boys and young men from both the CDC and FDA and a lot of back and forth about this particular concern prior to issuing EUA. Before you make any assumptions, I don't get my info from Foxnews or any news, I get my info from actually following the conversation and slides presented in the FDA and ACIP meetings and looking at the published research on myocarditis after vaccination. I was comfortable enough to vaccinate my child but decided to spread out his 1st and 2nd doses (based on guidance the CDC was too slow to adapt when there was great data supporting this as a risk mitigation method from Canada).

Bottom line, it's quite understandable that parents were hesitant to vaccinate kids, mandating before EUA was inappropriate, and also would contribute to inequity given some of the most distrustful populations are disadvantaged and at risk of even more learning loss if kicked out of schools.

There were a lot of democrats touting "follow the science" when they weren't actually reading the latest science.[/quote]

*yawn*

Myocarditis hospitalizations and deaths were a smidge of a fraction of the kids ending up in ICU or dying due to COVID. I can't believe you clowns are still beating the myocarditis drum.

[quote][i]Recent data provided by the CDC suggests that among 100,000 vaccinated adolescent males, [b]only about four to seven would be expected to develop post-vaccine myocarditis[/b]. If this group was not vaccinated, however, more than 5,500 would be likely to become infected with COVID-19 over a period of three months, [b]with infections resulting in 50 hospitalizations, potential MIS-C, myocarditis and possible death[/b]. Recent surges in infections would only increase these risks in unvaccinated individuals.[/i][/quote]

Source: https://www.chop.edu/news/health-tip/myocarditis-and-covid-19-get-facts

So for every 100K vaccinated kids, maybe 5.5 would get post-vaccine myocardits vs. 50 unvaccinated kids hospitalized by COVID.

Gee, which is the bigger risk?

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That's not the point - I agree it's worth the risk to vaccinate, that's why my kid got vaccinated and later boosted. But it absolutely was a difficult call for many parents to make to vaccinate right away that early, with much of the back and forth about myocarditis by even the top epidemiologists, prior to FDA full approval, with top experts in other countries coming to different conclusions for recommending vaccination for pediatric age groups. Also, if we're talking about wanting to vaccinate to reduce infection risk, that's a really short lived effect.

The point is the ethics of mandating vaccination prior to full FDA approval in pediatric patients. Sorry, not ethical to me, even though I was ok to make that choice for my own child. After full FDA approval, go on and go forth. Especially with socioeconomically disadvantaged children in families that are already vaccine hesitant, already suffering pandemic related learning loss and more, being required to do so to attend in person school. That, to me, was too far (not done in DC but in other school districts such as LA)

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