I love Emily Oster and she had a letter from someone on this topic in her newsletter today - and her takeaway was that it's not worth worrying about now because we'll have more info by the time it's approved for kids under 12.
I made the difficult decision to terminate a pregnancy at 21 weeks due to the fact that the baby wouldn't survive due to an improperly formed heart, then my second child was born with heart defects and needed open heart surgery at 5 months. So I do have concern about potential myocarditis issues.
DH and I jumped at the chance to be vaccinated ASAP, but I look forward to more information before making the final decision for my kids (ages 8, 7, 4, and 1).
I love Emily Oster and she had a letter from someone on this topic in her newsletter today - and her takeaway was that it's not worth worrying about now because we'll have more info by the time it's approved for kids under 12.
I made the difficult decision to terminate a pregnancy at 21 weeks due to the fact that the baby wouldn't survive due to an improperly formed heart, then my second child was born with heart defects and needed open heart surgery at 5 months. So I do have concern about potential myocarditis issues.
DH and I jumped at the chance to be vaccinated ASAP, but I look forward to more information before making the final decision for my kids (ages 8, 7, 4, and 1).
I do feel like it matters. We have every reason to believe that this is just around the corner. And knowing my child will most likely soon have the opportunity to get vaccinated--that this is not forever--gives me a very good reason to continue to ask her to be cautious. If I didn't intend to vaccinate her, there would be no point in continuing to be cautious: I'd throw away her masks and just plan that we'd deal with COVID whenever it found her whether that's this summer or next winter.
Unless some crazy new vaccine side effect info comes out between now and when it's approved for 2+, yes definitely. I can't wait to get her vaccinated. I listened to a podcast with a vaccine expert on vaccine side effects and feel even better about it now.
100% and if I had the opportunity to sign them up for a trial, I would. I want them vaccinated ASAP, but they're well below the current 12 year cut off, so I'm impatiently waiting for Pfizer to get approval for younger kids.
I realized a lot of my fear of her getting Covid stems from my PTSD from her being a preemie. She needs her nebulizer with even a normal cold (still) and so if there is a way I can help prime her immune system, we are all for it.
Yes. As soon as he can. He's 10 and has said, "man, if only I were 12." We've been pretty open about getting vaxxed--I got vaxxed in early Feb, H in May, and E wants to be as safe as he can when he goes back to school. I hope the shots are available to his age group as early in the school year as possible.
My 14 year old followed all the news and asked me to make him an appointment the day he was eligible. He got it the first day and yesterday was the end of the 2 week wait.
My 7 year old has said he can’t wait to get his and he hates shots. I have no concerns about him getting it, so as soon as I can get him an appointment, I will.
I guess SS? My 13 year old had covid in February. Knowing that he has antibodies for now, I have been stalling on getting him vaxxed. My H (who also had covid) had pretty bad side effects from both doses of the vaccine-- he felt worse than when he actually had covid, both times.
For that reason, I wanted to wait until DS was out of school/done activities for the year so that he could be out of commission for a few days without feeling too stressed.
I have also seen some evidence that people who have had covid get the full benefit of the vaccine from just one dose. I was sort of hoping to hear more about that/have some guidelines around it in case DS could get away with only having to get one shot.
FTR, school ended last Friday and by that weekend DS was nagging me about making an appointment, so we'll probably go ahead with it one day next week.
I guess SS? My 13 year old had covid in February. Knowing that he has antibodies for now, I have been stalling on getting him vaxxed. My H (who also had covid) had pretty bad side effects from both doses of the vaccine-- he felt worse than when he actually had covid, both times.
For that reason, I wanted to wait until DS was out of school/done activities for the year so that he could be out of commission for a few days without feeling too stressed.
I have also seen some evidence that people who have had covid get the full benefit of the vaccine from just one dose. I was sort of hoping to hear more about that/have some guidelines around it in case DS could get away with only having to get one shot.
FTR, school ended last Friday and by that weekend DS was nagging me about making an appointment, so we'll probably go ahead with it one day next week.
My 14 year old had covid in January. She got her first shot in mid May and she had every side effect: vomiting, nausea, headache, sore throat, tiredness, body aches. She was pretty unhappy for a day.
Second shot at the beginning of June and it wasn’t quite as bad, but she still had a reaction. Mainly headache and lethargy. But not nearly as bad as first go.
Meanwhile my 12 year old (who hasn’t had covid) got her first shot on her 12th birthday and had a sore arm that she never even mentioned. Second shot is on Monday.
sillygoosegirl, I can definitely see that perspective if your life is still altered significantly due to COVID. Now that all the adults and caretakers in my kids’ lives are vaccinated, and we live in an area with very high vaccination rates and very low covid rates, we’ve felt comfortable with our kids being back to their normal lives now.
Post by imojoebunny on Jun 18, 2021 13:36:38 GMT -5
My 12 and 15 year old are both fully vaxed +14 days. It is magical. We had a friend (also vaxed) spend the night last night, and another three are spending the night tonight. On Sunday, we get on a plane to go on a 5 week vacation. Vaccines make all this possible. Our town had a clinic for all the 12-15 year olds 2 days after they were eligible 1100 out of about 1600 eligible kids registered for that one clinic, so most all of the kids friends are fully vaxed now, except a few of DS's who have not yet turned 12. Many others just couldn't make the clinic's 2 days, and got their kids vaxed elsewhere. I only know one IRL person who is not getting her eligible kids vaccinated, and she has some very odd logic about many things.
I sincerely hope that the take rate goes up nationwide, and world wide, for that matter. The variants will keep coming, if it does not, and they could be even worse than the original variations.
Post by outnumbered on Jun 18, 2021 13:38:08 GMT -5
I understand that the biggest risk to my children's health is not COVID, but they will all be fully vaccinated, just like they are vaxed for the flu and other illnesses.
And yes swimming, bike riding, and driving in a car carry significant risk, but we also take steps to mitigate the risk of those activities. We take swimming lessons and go to guarded beaches. We wear bike helmets and bright clothing. We wear our seatbelts in the car. I see a vaccination as another step in mitigating risk.
My kids are 5 and 2, and I plan to vaccinate them both ASAP when it's approved for their age groups.
ETA: Our pedi is already talking it up to parents, which makes me feel good about it too. We had to have both kids covid tested a few weeks ago bc of colds, and their pedi who did the test was like, "and we're gonna see you back here in Sept to be vaccinated for this, right?" 100%, doc. Their office got a freezer and has had a few shipments of Moderna & Pfizer to administer to their 12+ patients, so I'm hoping the kids can get theirs this fall right at their pedi's office.
I voted SS because I would like to get DDs (12 & 14) vaccinated, and they both want to, but XH is strongly against it. Not sure what I can do about this legally.
I was a definite hell yes until a week ago (3 of us, including my 12 year old are vaccinated; DD2 is 10). Then I started thinking about whether young kids needed to be vaccinated more than older adults in other places and I started to feel bad about the US doing what we do and now I want to take a stand…but the truth is she’ll get it when she’s eligible. She really wants it and I am a vaccine pusher. But there are some broader moral questions I’m wrestling with for sure.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
I was a definite hell yes until a week ago (3 of us, including my 12 year old are vaccinated; DD2 is 10). Then I started thinking about whether young kids needed to be vaccinated more than older adults in other places and I started to feel bad about the US doing what we do and now I want to take a stand…but the truth is she’ll get it when she’s eligible. She really wants it and I am a vaccine pusher. But there are some broader moral questions I’m wrestling with for sure.
I understand the guilty feelings behind vaccinating kids. If the US were to say they weren’t going to authorize the vaccine for children with the intent of instead donating all those doses to countries in need of assistance getting the vaccine, I’d go along with that. I mean, I selfishly wouldn’t be happy about not being able to vaccinate my daughter, but I’d know it was for the greater good of helping populations more at risk than she is, so I guess I’d be okay with it. But with the current setup, me choosing not to vaccinate DD wouldn’t mean there would be one extra shot to go to someone more vulnerable elsewhere. So the way I see it, going ahead with vaccinating DD is actually a (small) way to help people without access to vaccines - every infection is a chance for a mutation, so by preventing DD from getting COVID, that’s one less opportunity for the vaccine to mutate into something even more dangerous for people who aren’t protected. (And donating to funds that are helping get other countries vaccinated also helps with my guilt, too.)
I was a definite hell yes until a week ago (3 of us, including my 12 year old are vaccinated; DD2 is 10). Then I started thinking about whether young kids needed to be vaccinated more than older adults in other places and I started to feel bad about the US doing what we do and now I want to take a stand…but the truth is she’ll get it when she’s eligible. She really wants it and I am a vaccine pusher. But there are some broader moral questions I’m wrestling with for sure.
Heck, I felt this way about my own vaccine because I’m a healthy 30-something while many of my coworkers around the world still couldn’t get their parents vaccinated.
But I agree with the above post that the shots earmarked for the U.S. likely won’t be redistributed abroad (at least not in the 1:1 way we’re thinking), especially if a lower dose is approved for younger kids.
I can't wait. I so wish they could get it before the school year starts.
I will follow the myocarditis stuff but as of now that hasn't swayed me. The one thing that makes me a little hesitant is my pharmacist friend, who has been extremely covid cautious and who took the vaccine herself early on, said that she might wait a bit and see how it goes (and this was before the myocarditis news). She works in an acute care hospital setting that had (at least) one patient with the J&J blood clots so I guess that's why she's a little wary? I'm not sure. I was surprised she said that.
My kids are 5 and 2, and I plan to vaccinate them both ASAP when it's approved for their age groups.
ETA: Our pedi is already talking it up to parents, which makes me feel good about it too. We had to have both kids covid tested a few weeks ago bc of colds, and their pedi who did the test was like, "and we're gonna see you back here in Sept to be vaccinated for this, right?" 100%, doc. Their office got a freezer and has had a few shipments of Moderna & Pfizer to administer to their 12+ patients, so I'm hoping the kids can get theirs this fall right at their pedi's office.
Are they saying September seems like a high likelihood for shots to be available? Anybody know? Because that would be amazing! I saw that Pfizer was requesting authorization in September, but wasn't sure if that meant to have the vaccine available then or if that just meant it was starting the process and it would be available sometime later in the year.
My kids are 5 and 2, and I plan to vaccinate them both ASAP when it's approved for their age groups.
ETA: Our pedi is already talking it up to parents, which makes me feel good about it too. We had to have both kids covid tested a few weeks ago bc of colds, and their pedi who did the test was like, "and we're gonna see you back here in Sept to be vaccinated for this, right?" 100%, doc. Their office got a freezer and has had a few shipments of Moderna & Pfizer to administer to their 12+ patients, so I'm hoping the kids can get theirs this fall right at their pedi's office.
Are they saying September seems like a high likelihood for shots to be available? Anybody know? Because that would be amazing! I saw that Pfizer was requesting authorization in September, but wasn't sure if that meant to have the vaccine available then or if that just meant it was starting the process and it would be available sometime later in the year.
Pfizer just added 3 states to their 5-11 year old study (and added additional kids in the original states) and is temporarily pausing younger kid studies to try to get the school age kids vaccine available by August/September…. Hopefully they can make it happen.
I understand that the biggest risk to my children's health is not COVID, but they will all be fully vaccinated, just like they are vaxed for the flu and other illnesses.
And yes swimming, bike riding, and driving in a car carry significant risk, but we also take steps to mitigate the risk of those activities. We take swimming lessons and go to guarded beaches. We wear bike helmets and bright clothing. We wear our seatbelts in the car. I see a vaccination as another step in mitigating risk.
Thank you for this, I wasn't sure how to succinctly respond to that post.