Friday, June 17, 2022

Vaccine risk

In trying to figure out why children should get the Covid vaccine, I found this. COVID-19 vaccination can help protect your child from getting COVID-19. Although fewer children have been sick with COVID-19 compared to adults, children can be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, can get sick from COVID-19, and can spread the virus that causes COVID-19 to others. Then I found this from Mayo Clinic. This study showed that the impact of vaccination on community transmission of circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be not significantly different from the impact among unvaccinated people. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 645 children have died from Covid-19 in the US. Many of these deaths were co-morbidity with other illnesses. During normal flu season 30 percent of flu vaccinations come with adverse reactions, and about six percent of all adverse reactions bring with them serious health events, including death. Parents should not automatically assume that the vaccine is worth the risk.

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