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With children having a much lower risk profile to start with and the same or similar risk of adverse effects as adults, parents may have some tough choices ahea

With children having a much lower risk profile to start with and the same or similar risk of adverse effects as adults, parents may have some tough choices ahead.

timbit42 5y ago
We're not vaccinating children to protect them. It's to protect adults.
- mrj 5y ago
  I just scheduled my son's appointment. Yes, his risk is low, but even minor infections have unknown effects on the brain, some referencing as many as 30% of survivors continue to have symptoms. All of the adults in his life are already vaccinated. I choose to vaccinate him not to protect adults, but because it is a lower risk than covid.
- lamontcg 5y ago
  No the risk of the virus to children is also much lower when they're vaccinated than when they're not.
moistly 5y ago
Vaccination side-effects tend toward the immediate, not the long-term. You can bet a close eye is being kept on paediatric adverse reactions — no one is going to look good if children die. It really shouldn’t be a tough choice for very long: no more than several weeks. Meanwhile we know the virus wreaks havoc in a lot of bodies and we have no idea of its long-term effects… like with chickpox => shingles, getting it as a kid may be misery in old age.
jquery 5y ago
The choice actually isn’t tough at all if you listen to your doctor instead of social media.
- simonsarris 5y ago
  As a clear example of the level of misinformation that persists among doctors, a 2015 Credit Suisse Foundation report found that 40% of nutritionists and 70% of general practitioners falsely believed eating cholesterol-rich food raises blood levels of cholesterol. This is despite it being proven otherwise over 35 years ago and repeatedly re-proven. https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/csri-fat-the-new-health-paradigm.pdf https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab... You shouldn't believe randos on social media, but doctors are not some magically well informed class. Many of them are persistently misinformed and fail to update their priors.
- deleted 5y ago
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- mewpmewp2 5y ago
  The thing is, doctors may have no idea about what the exact risks of those vaccines are. Suggestions coming from the top for most of them are to obviously just give out the vaccines, except for some very minor edge cases. Considering how much gaslighting reportedly vaccine injured have experienced from not just their relatives, but also doctors and others in medical communities, I do feel that many doctors may not have a good understanding of risk vs benefits on this one. Especially in the beginning of summer, there may be more awareness now, but plenty of cases where vaccine injured complain about what happened and doctors don't believe them or simply tell them they can't treat them as there's no official protocol for that.

With children having a much lower risk profile to start with and the same or similar risk of adverse effects as adults, parents may have some tough choices ahead.

timbit42 5y ago

We're not vaccinating children to protect them. It's to protect adults.

mrj 5y ago
I just scheduled my son's appointment. Yes, his risk is low, but even minor infections have unknown effects on the brain, some referencing as many as 30% of survivors continue to have symptoms. All of the adults in his life are already vaccinated. I choose to vaccinate him not to protect adults, but because it is a lower risk than covid.
lamontcg 5y ago
No the risk of the virus to children is also much lower when they're vaccinated than when they're not.

moistly 5y ago

Vaccination side-effects tend toward the immediate, not the long-term. You can bet a close eye is being kept on paediatric adverse reactions — no one is going to look good if children die. It really shouldn’t be a tough choice for very long: no more than several weeks. Meanwhile we know the virus wreaks havoc in a lot of bodies and we have no idea of its long-term effects… like with chickpox => shingles, getting it as a kid may be misery in old age.

jquery 5y ago

The choice actually isn’t tough at all if you listen to your doctor instead of social media.

simonsarris 5y ago
As a clear example of the level of misinformation that persists among doctors, a 2015 Credit Suisse Foundation report found that 40% of nutritionists and 70% of general practitioners falsely believed eating cholesterol-rich food raises blood levels of cholesterol. This is despite it being proven otherwise over 35 years ago and repeatedly re-proven. https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/csri-fat-the-new-health-paradigm.pdf https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab... You shouldn't believe randos on social media, but doctors are not some magically well informed class. Many of them are persistently misinformed and fail to update their priors.
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mewpmewp2 5y ago
The thing is, doctors may have no idea about what the exact risks of those vaccines are. Suggestions coming from the top for most of them are to obviously just give out the vaccines, except for some very minor edge cases. Considering how much gaslighting reportedly vaccine injured have experienced from not just their relatives, but also doctors and others in medical communities, I do feel that many doctors may not have a good understanding of risk vs benefits on this one. Especially in the beginning of summer, there may be more awareness now, but plenty of cases where vaccine injured complain about what happened and doctors don't believe them or simply tell them they can't treat them as there's no official protocol for that.