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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with PP, they may still change it. Easier to dial back.

I do hope people vaccinate children. It will help reduce the chance of circulating variants in the winter.[/quote]

[b]You understand the odds of a vaccine being approved for young children before winter is basically nil, right? Maybe older elementary kids. But there is virtually no way that ECE or 1st-2nd grade kids will be able to get a vaccine in 2021, and the odds for 2022 aren't even that great.[/b]

[b]But if 80% of adults and older kids are vaccinated,[/b] it likely won't matter. Which is one of the reasons the vaccine is likely to be approved -- it will seem to unnecessarily risky to use a relatively new vaccine on small children against a virus that exists only in very small numbers, if at all, and poses a limited risk to them. This isn't polio. All the cost/benefits of Covid are reversed from what they were during the polio crisis.[/quote]

But how can this be the case if Pfizer is saying they will submit for an EUA for 5-11-year-olds in September?  Or do you mean that FDA will require full approval of the vaccine?  In that case I agree that kids under 12 will be waiting much longer.  [/quote]

+1, I understand the EUA in theory may not be approved but that is not what's being signalled right now. The messaging to date has been that a kid's vaccine is coming in 2021.

Also, we are nowhere near 80% of adults and teens vaccinated. Any assumption built on that is a fantasy.

I agree people are being ridiculous about masks in many ways but schools managing expectations for fall is not bad policy. It will be much easier to relieve the mask requirement once than to go the other way, or go back and forth.[/quote]

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