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originally posted by: nonspecific
Is there any possibility of mandatory vaccines for minors in the US?
Here in the UK that's something I'd put as a zero chance as things stand, even for adults it's not looking like a possibility.
a reply to: ketsuko
There is well established precedence.
Is there any possibility of mandatory vaccines for minors in the US?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Irishhaf
Dafuq is wrong with people, if the risk for a young boy is higher with the shot than without you don't get the shot.
That preprint is comparing apples to oranges though, some weird math going on there. Cases of myocarditis vs a selected group of hospitalizations? Why not hospitalizations vs hospitalizations? Why not myocarditis vs myocarditis? I'll wait for peer review.
In the meantime, here is another preprint. But at least it is apples to apples.
Myocarditis (or pericarditis or myopericarditis) from primary COVID19 infection occurred at a rate as high as 450 per million in young males. Young males infected with the virus are up 6 times more likely to develop myocarditis as those who have received the vaccine.
www.medrxiv.org...
Rates of COVID-19 cases and myocarditis not identified in the system were estimated and the results adjusted accordingly. Wilson score intervals were used for 95% confidence intervals due to the very low probability outcome.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: dragonridr
It doesn't matter. The fact is that both risks are very, very small, but the one with the vaccine is still higher. So why bother to get the vaccine and increase that small risk? You are just as well off with a healthy, in shape boy to wait it out.
You're looking at this form the perspective of the individual rather than the society.
While covid might pose a low risk to children they can become carriers and incubators. An unvaxxed asymptomatic child has about a 1 in 4 chance of infecting people who are in close proximity to them. A vaxxed asymptomatic child has about a 1 in 26 chance.
By vaxxing children you reduce the risk of them infecting their family or friends.
Then there's the fact that coronavirus have the potential to mutate when they replicate. So by reducing the number of hosts you reduce the amount of viral replication in the community, which in turn reduce the risk that one of these mutations will lead to a more dangerous varient.
Overall, the chances that child will be harmed by the vax are statistically insignificant, but the chances that an unvaxxed child might inadvertently lead to somebody else being harmed are statistically higher.
One of the biggest takeaways that I have form this whole affair is that there are an awful lot of extremely selfish people out there who think about themselves more than they think about their communities.
originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: zosimov
a reply to: olaru12
My kid could be forced to take an experimental jab which creates heart problems that he would have to deal with for his entire lifetime, and still catch COVID and give it to grandma and kill her!
But that's his problem, right?
I know it's an inconvenient choice. My grandma was killed by a drunken driver that was fined $500 bucks and 30 days. That's fair huh?
we should punish all the unvaxxed for this. Kill em all, let God sort em out! AMIRITE!
Sorry, can't accept this Qanon type of logic!
And now they lie about Myocarditis how you can have Myocarditis if you catch covid what? if that is true how come there were no reports of Myocarditis when Covid started in 2019 and 2020 and in Young people?
Recent paediatric cases of acute myocarditis following a SARS-CoV-2 infection have raised the possibility of post-infective complications of COVID-19. This short editorial is reviewing current understanding of this new complication, its pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapeutic strategy
originally posted by: Nexttimemaybe
While I think adults voluntarily vaccinated is a good thing, I dont agree with kids having it, unless they want to.
It seems most children do not get that I'll, the purpose of the vax is to stop serious illness. Therefore they dont really need it.
originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: Nexttimemaybe
While I think adults voluntarily vaccinated is a good thing, I dont agree with kids having it, unless they want to.
It seems most children do not get that I'll, the purpose of the vax is to stop serious illness. Therefore they dont really need it.
Do you think a child can get covid V. not show any symptoms and still spread covid to others?
If so...what's you solution?
imo, public schools will be a petri dish of covid and mutate in such an environment to a catastrophic degree.