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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At first I didn’t want to get the booster for our kids. I thought it was pointless and they had side effects from the first vaccine. Then I got Covid over the summer and it was so awful that I decided to go ahead and get the boosters for the kids, if it could possibly reduce the chance that they catch it.[/quote]

This is how I feel too. I know the vaccine doesn’t prevent illness anymore like it used to with the alpha strain but if it keeps them from getting half as sick as I did it will be worth it.[/quote]

Fair enough.  However, kids are less likely to get as sick as adults, regardless of vaccination status.  We have data that supports that.  And there is zero data to show that boosted kids have less severe illness.  That’s just a random guess on your part and likely will prove to be an incorrect assumption when we have more data.

But if it makes you feel better, then boost away.  [/quote]

There is plenty of data showing that boosted adults have less severe illness, so doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to assume the same applies to kids.[/quote]

Maybe.  Could be true.  But we also have plenty of solid evidence that Covid affects kids much less severely than it affects adults 55+.  The severity of illness for 7 year olds would likely be less, regardless of a booster.

Any medical intervention needs to show that it provides an actual benefit.  And we do not have data showing that is true with regards to boosters and kids.

That is why mandates for kids are unacceptable.  We don’t and we shouldn’t set mandates based on ‘assumptions’.  We base them on data.  (Or, at least we should - that has not been the case with our public health agencies when it comes to Covid and kids.)[/quote]

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