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Some of us just need to make it a few months till our kids can get vaccinated. If we Had any independent doctors that could fudge the age requirement we wouldn’

by rdtwo 5y ago

Some of us just need to make it a few months till our kids can get vaccinated. If we Had any independent doctors that could fudge the age requirement we wouldn’t even wait.

nradov 5y ago
Fortunately CDC data shows there is no significant risk to healthy children. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
- rdtwo 5y ago
  Nobody knows the long term effects for kids. It’s probably ok but nobody knows. The cdc isnt an organization that uses data for its recommendations and they have embarrassed themselves so much recently that nobody should trust anything they say.
brimble 5y ago
Matters less with omicron. Kids were already at very low risk. Vaccines are reducing hospitalization rates, which already hardly matters for kids, but don't seem to be doing much to prevent transmission, which was the most persuasive argument for all kinds of things (vaccinating kids, school closures, et c.) before. This wave's very different from previous ones. [EDIT] barring other risk factors, obviously. Some kids definitely are at significant risk.
- rdtwo 5y ago
  I spend a lot of money on things that provide minor improvements to projected outcomes for my kid. So my kid getting a vaccine to slightly improve odds of a better outcome is must.
  - brimble 5y ago
    Oh, yeah, sure, don't not do it if you're inclined to. Ours are vaccinated, including one who barely made the cut. I'm pretty sure the math still checks out, even with omicron, it's just getting really close to "about 100 other things I never think about at all, are more important than this" territory, for (healthy) kids specifically, so I'd encourage anyone who's actually worried about their otherwise-healthy kid not being vaccinated, even if the worry is mostly about those they might infect, to not worry, given the current circumstances.

by rdtwo 5y ago

Some of us just need to make it a few months till our kids can get vaccinated. If we Had any independent doctors that could fudge the age requirement we wouldn’t even wait.

nradov 5y ago

Fortunately CDC data shows there is no significant risk to healthy children. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

rdtwo 5y ago
Nobody knows the long term effects for kids. It’s probably ok but nobody knows. The cdc isnt an organization that uses data for its recommendations and they have embarrassed themselves so much recently that nobody should trust anything they say.

brimble 5y ago

Matters less with omicron. Kids were already at very low risk. Vaccines are reducing hospitalization rates, which already hardly matters for kids, but don't seem to be doing much to prevent transmission, which was the most persuasive argument for all kinds of things (vaccinating kids, school closures, et c.) before. This wave's very different from previous ones. [EDIT] barring other risk factors, obviously. Some kids definitely are at significant risk.

rdtwo 5y ago
I spend a lot of money on things that provide minor improvements to projected outcomes for my kid. So my kid getting a vaccine to slightly improve odds of a better outcome is must.
- brimble 5y ago
  Oh, yeah, sure, don't not do it if you're inclined to. Ours are vaccinated, including one who barely made the cut. I'm pretty sure the math still checks out, even with omicron, it's just getting really close to "about 100 other things I never think about at all, are more important than this" territory, for (healthy) kids specifically, so I'd encourage anyone who's actually worried about their otherwise-healthy kid not being vaccinated, even if the worry is mostly about those they might infect, to not worry, given the current circumstances.