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Given that a pediatric hospitalization is a hellish and expensive affair and early long COVID may have life-long effects, while a vaccine is cheap and trivially
by Daishiman 5y ago
Given that a pediatric hospitalization is a hellish and expensive affair and early long COVID may have life-long effects, while a vaccine is cheap and trivially accessible, how is that still _not_ a winning strategy? _Just_ 8000 vaccinations to prevent a hospitalization? How could you even consider that to be bad? Are we in a surplus of hospital beds or guardians or am I the only person that lives in a metro area where routine hospital procedures have to be cancelled and there's a 15% rate of absenteeism due to Covid, which likely includes parents that have to take care of their sick children?
- timr 5y agoThe ACIP slide deck goes into this. The vaccines also have risks, which you are ignoring, in favor of fixating on "early long Covid", which is a documented risk of exceptionally low magnitude.
- sshine 5y ago8000 vaccinations to prevent one hospitalization sounds like a really bad trade-off when you don’t specify the severity of the hospitalization and you don’t take into account the side-effects and efficacy of the vaccination (other than to prevent hospitalization). Also, did you just add ‘pediatric’ to this stream of words to make it about the kids?
- GuB-42 5y agoFrom a pure money perspective, let's say a shot is worth about $25, which I think is a low estimate. 8000 shots is $200k. From what I've seen, a hospital stay for covid is about $50k on average. Of course, it is only when we consider trading between 1 hospital stay to 8000 shots. It assumes the numbers are right and doesn't consider anything else, like potential life-long sequelae, non-hospitalization risks and side effects of vaccination. Anyways, while my intuition is that vaccinating kids is worthwhile, it isn't as obvious as it is for adults.