We Don't Need WARP SPEED for Child Covid Vaccines

Our Kids Deserve More Time

On the topic of Covid Vaccines for children, like many others I’m very concerned. I'm a father of two toddlers who both have received all of their scheduled vaccinations, but I'm in no hurry to give them a Covid shot.

There are three main reasons to vaccinate children:

1. The vaccines protect against diseases that cause significant mortality and morbidity in children.

2. The vaccines prevent children from spreading the disease, and thus help form herd immunity to protect the community at large.

3. The vaccines given to children all have a proven, LONG TERM track record of safety.

The problem is none of these three reasons apply to the Covid vaccine.

1. Kids are not at risk from Covid, it's far less deadly to kids than flu.

2. Kids are not a significant vector of spread of the disease. We don't need kids vaccinated to protect the vulnerable.

3. The vaccines were approved at a miracle pace, and while there is no reason to suspect adverse side effects in kids, we won't know until we test, and that takes time.

For a healthy child with less than a one in a million chance of death from Covid, it takes a long time to root out if a vaccine could have a one in a million deadly side effect. If it does, the risks outweigh the reward for healthy kids.

What concerns me is we appear to have lost our ability to make rational decisions as a society. We're all so eager to get back to normal we'll do whatever it takes. 

We already needlessly sacrificed a year of our kid's education, let's not jump the gun on giving them a pharmaceutical product invented last year. Warp Speed made sense for adults, but our kids deserve more time.

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