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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what if she gets covid?  Honestly.  I’m sure you never kept her isolated because you feared the flu or rsv or any other childhood illness.  Look at the death rates for covid vs flu.  Did you know flu has all the same wonky side effects that covid does.

Freaking out over a kid getting covid is ludicrous.  Let her have a life again.[/quote]

I had scarlet fever as a kid decades ago. I bet quite a few of us here born in the 1970s had it. It had much a higher mortality rate for children than Covid.[/quote]

266 kids died of Covid in the US. In 2009, 1200 American children died of the flu. Covid is not an emergency in kids. There is no emergency that justifies EUA in children. You may be waiting a very long time to get back to normal if you are waiting for a vaccine..

“Emergency Use Authorizations for child vaccinations can make sense for children for whom the benefits are greatest, and thus for whom it is clearest that the benefits outweigh any unknown harms. In the near-term, EUA’s should be considered for children at genuinely high risk of serious complications from infection. It is also worth considering whether emergency use could be authorized for children whom especially concerned caregivers are sheltering from school or social interactions. The small risk posed to children by COVID-19 does not merit restrictions on any normal child activities in a context where adults are protected by vaccines, but individual children who find their lives curtailed in this way may obtain significant benefits from vaccination.”

https://medium.com/@wpegden/covid-19-vaccines-in-children-6cdff15b2415[/quote]

First of all, COVID didn’t spread as much among children due to widespread school closures. Comparing absolute numbers in this context is meaningless. Second, death is not the only parameter. Rates of pediatric long haul COVID are significant and may increase with the new variants. It is frankly understandable to be conservative with your child’s health, especially because as more is known better treatments will become available.

I say this as someone whose kids have been in in-person schools with great protocols for testing, screening, ventilation, masks, and distancing. I also know the parents of their classmates and feel relatively comfortable with the exposure. But we did not mix with people indoors, aside from close family who quarantined before, and we don’t plan to do do post vaccination until the overall numbers go down and kids are vaccinated.

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