Anonymous
07/30/2022 18:07
Subject: Preschools mandating COVID vaccines
Anonymous wrote:Op what the hell you are not pro vax if you are not giving your three year old the vaccine. What are you waiting for ?
I vaccinated my 2 and 4 year olds on day one but I think this is a bit harsh. The kids are generally quite low risk and the vaccine for their age group at this point in time isn’t as efficacious as earlier iterations. I was totally jumping up and down to vaccinate mine, but I understand why some are hesitant — especially if their kids have already had COVID (and most have).
Anonymous
07/30/2022 17:55
Subject: Preschools mandating COVID vaccines
Op what the hell you are not pro vax if you are not giving your three year old the vaccine. What are you waiting for ?
Anonymous
07/30/2022 17:50
Subject: Preschools mandating COVID vaccines
Anonymous wrote:Was the vaccine for kids approved beyond the emergency use authorization? I thought you can’t do a mandate if that’s not the case
It was approved under EUA. A private institution can do whatever it wants with a mandate/whatever its customers will tolerate. There is no legal requirement. Our preschool required it and we withdrew our child.
Anonymous
07/30/2022 17:30
Subject: Preschools mandating COVID vaccines
I am more agnostic about a mandate but think the window should be longer. Not everyone could get in for shots the first couple weeks they were available, and some will prefer a longer spacing between shots.
Anonymous
07/30/2022 14:02
Subject: Preschools mandating COVID vaccines
Was the vaccine for kids approved beyond the emergency use authorization? I thought you can’t do a mandate if that’s not the case
Anonymous
07/20/2022 09:34
Subject: Preschools mandating COVID vaccines
MIS-C in children has declined substantially in recent months. Large numbers of cases were expected when the Omicron winter surge began, but they never materialized. No one knows why but it's happening far, far lass with Omicron than with previous variants. It might be because there's so much population immunity or because the virus itself has changed. In any case, that's a good thing.
Anonymous
07/19/2022 19:07
Subject: Re:Preschools mandating COVID vaccines
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ours in VA is mandating vaccines. First shot has to be done by August. So grateful; I would only choose a preschool with a vaccine mandate.
Why is that? You know the vaccines don't do much to protect against symptomatic disease, and there's no evidence they protect against severe disease in this age group?
This is not true. Scroll down to the 10:20 AM update.
https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/15/tracking-an-fda-advisory-panel-meeting-on-covid-vaccines-in-young-children/
The confidence interval in that slide is enormous. It means you can't make heads or tails of the data. Sorry, that's extremely weak if that's your "evidence."
The confidence interval is 32.4-67.9; i.e. well above 0. The vaccine clearly prevents infection.
How long does it prevent infection? For the couple of weeks that the trial followed the kids? Should toddlers be getting boosters every few months because vaccine efficacy wanes so quickly?
Don't even know why I'm biting, but sure. A booster every 6 months or so. Why not?
In the link, it shows that the immune response to the vaccine is consistent across all age groups. Are you saying adults shouldn't get the vaccine?
I'm saying that the risks of covid to young children are far lower than the risks of covid for adults--by several orders of magnitude. Therefore the risk/benefit calculation of vaccination and repeated boosters is extremely different. Should my elderly parents keep getting boosters? Probably, because the risk of death and severe disease of covid are so high for that age group. Should my healthy toddler who likely has already been exposed to the virus get vaccinated and get endless boosters when there doesn't seem to be a clear benefit and the risks to him from the virus are so low? Probably not.
The risk of covid to young children may be low, but it is not zero. There are thousands of children who have died worldwide from covid, and many more who have had MIS-C or other severe cases. Yes, that number is very low, but what if it was your kid and you could have prevented it with the vaccine? So why not get the vaccine? I don't see the downside.
We’ll see how my kids do after the second dose, but I got more sick from the vaccine and booster than from Covid itself. So I’m getting them vaccinated, but I certainly wouldn’t do boosters every 6 months without much better evidence of a benefit.