Vaccine supply will be ready for them the moment the studies are done, so this year seems realistic for getting children vaccinated. Chances seem very high the vaccines work on children, with the caveat that they aren’t as needed, of course.
It’s months away but I see no reason we couldn’t make a September deadline if that was something teachers needed in order to come back.
One thing I haven’t seen worried about as much is: are children going to suffer from long COVID? After it became clear that children were basically safe from severe COVID, long COVID became my next concern. If I had children, I certainly wouldn’t want them suffering e.g. long-term fatigue… But I don’t recall reading much about this question in your posts.
The average period from diagnosis to evaluation was ~163 days. Of the group, ~42% had a complete recovery. Within the group, 53% of children were reported to have one or more symptom 120 or more days after diagnosis, fitting the diagnosis of Long COVID. Strikingly, 36% of them had one or two symptoms at the time of evaluation, and 23% three or more symptoms.
(I haven’t checked this study’s methodology, or done a broader lit review yet)
I think you corrected your self later, but there was a sentence earlier about vaccinated children in classrooms.
That is not likely to happen this year. Vaccine trials for children are just getting under way
Vaccine supply will be ready for them the moment the studies are done, so this year seems realistic for getting children vaccinated. Chances seem very high the vaccines work on children, with the caveat that they aren’t as needed, of course.
It’s months away but I see no reason we couldn’t make a September deadline if that was something teachers needed in order to come back.
One thing I haven’t seen worried about as much is: are children going to suffer from long COVID? After it became clear that children were basically safe from severe COVID, long COVID became my next concern. If I had children, I certainly wouldn’t want them suffering e.g. long-term fatigue… But I don’t recall reading much about this question in your posts.
Without digging into the details right now, a quick Google returns Evidence that long COVID affects children:
(I haven’t checked this study’s methodology, or done a broader lit review yet)
The FDA must actually say that children are ok to vaccinate, do you think they’ll do that by September?