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The Kids Are Alright Why now is the time to rethink COVID safety protocols for children — and everyone else.


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2021 Aug 6, 5:07pm   343 views  2 comments

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The kids are safe. They always have been.

It may sound strange, given a year of panic over school closures and reopenings, a year of masking toddlers and closing playgrounds and huddling in pandemic pods, that, according to the CDC, among children the mortality risk from COVID-19 is actually lower than from the flu. The risk of severe disease or hospitalization is about the same.

This is true for the much-worried-over Delta variant. It is also true for all the other variants, and for the original strain. Most remarkably, it has been known to be true since the very earliest days of the pandemic — indeed it was among the very first things we did know about the disease. The preliminary mortality data from China was very clear: To children, COVID-19 represented only a vanishingly tiny threat of death, hospitalization, or severe disease.

Yet for a year and a half we have been largely unwilling to fully believe it. Children now wear masks at little-league games, and at the swimming pool, and when school reopens in the fall they will likely wear masks there, too. But the kids are not at risk themselves, and never were. Now, thanks to vaccines, the vast majority of their parents and grandparents aren’t any longer, either.

Stop the bullshit. Open the schools.

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1   NuttBoxer   2021 Aug 6, 5:21pm  

That title's a bit ironic given a certain bands proclivity for firing un-jabbed members.
2   Onvacation   2021 Aug 6, 7:18pm  

No ‘compelling’ case to vaccinate healthy kids right now, says Johns Hopkins medical professor
https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/no-compelling-case-to-vaccinate-healthy-kids-right-now-says-johns-hopkins-medical-professor/

A medical school professor at Johns Hopkins University said there is not a “compelling” case at the moment to vaccinate healthy children.

“In reviewing the medical literature and news reports, and in talking to pediatricians across the country, I am not aware of a single healthy child in the U.S. who has died of COVID-19 to date,” Marty Makary wrote in a recent essay at MedPage Today. He is the editor-in-chief of the medical news publication.

“I would not recommend a two-dose vaccine regimen for a healthy child ages 0 to 12 years until we have more data,” Makary said

He does, however, suggest that it “may make sense” for teenagers with comorbidities.

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