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Anonymous wrote:OP — you might want to do the booster in the next few weeks. It’ll take a couple weeks to really give you full immunity. Do it soon and you’ll be pretty well protected through the end of the year, by which the omicron specific booster should be available for kids.

I wondered who the nuts are that get kids boosted. US-wide, only 4.5% of 5 to 11 years old and 17% of 12-17 year olds got boosted the first time. It's expected to be much less for this booster too.

Our pediatrician recommended that our 11 yo get boosted.

You should ask her or him what studies she or he is using that a healthy 11 yo needs to get boosted. When I asked my pediatrician, they simply said "the CDC's recommendation". When I followed up saying that's not a study and other countries are not even vaccinating kids that age, they said "we [blindly] follow the CDC." I changed pediatricians.

I trust my pediatrician who has cared for my child for 11 years and has won doctor of the year, as opposed to random COVID denier on the internet.

After 2+ years of the irrational hysteria of the covid deniers/anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers, it's pretty easy to ignore them.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is in kindergarten, and our family somehow has not gotten covid yet. DH and I are inclined to wait to get boosters until later in the fall so that they will still be effective in the worst of winter, but if we knew there were a bunch of cases in her class or even her school or the schools in general, we’d go ahead with the shots. But that info is no longer reported, right?

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Anonymous wrote:OP — you might want to do the booster in the next few weeks. It’ll take a couple weeks to really give you full immunity. Do it soon and you’ll be pretty well protected through the end of the year, by which the omicron specific booster should be available for kids.

I wondered who the nuts are that get kids boosted. US-wide, only 4.5% of 5 to 11 years old and 17% of 12-17 year olds got boosted the first time. It's expected to be much less for this booster too.

Our pediatrician recommended that our 11 yo get boosted.

You should ask her or him what studies she or he is using that a healthy 11 yo needs to get boosted. When I asked my pediatrician, they simply said "the CDC's recommendation". When I followed up saying that's not a study and other countries are not even vaccinating kids that age, they said "we [blindly] follow the CDC." I changed pediatricians.

I trust my pediatrician who has cared for my child for 11 years and has won doctor of the year, as opposed to random COVID denier on the internet.

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Anonymous wrote:OP — you might want to do the booster in the next few weeks. It’ll take a couple weeks to really give you full immunity. Do it soon and you’ll be pretty well protected through the end of the year, by which the omicron specific booster should be available for kids.

I wondered who the nuts are that get kids boosted. US-wide, only 4.5% of 5 to 11 years old and 17% of 12-17 year olds got boosted the first time. It's expected to be much less for this booster too.

Our pediatrician recommended that our 11 yo get boosted.

You should ask her or him what studies she or he is using that a healthy 11 yo needs to get boosted. When I asked my pediatrician, they simply said "the CDC's recommendation". When I followed up saying that's not a study and other countries are not even vaccinating kids that age, they said "we [blindly] follow the CDC." I changed pediatricians.

I trust my pediatrician who has cared for my child for 11 years and has won doctor of the year, as opposed to random COVID denier on the internet.

You shouldn’t. My doc said docs are being threatened if they don’t recommend it