Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by timr on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:26PM
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In children? Yes.
The (very) few kids who end up hospitalized for Covid have serious co-morbidities that are easy to pre-screen (e.g. severe obesity). For these children, a full vaccination is recommended. Nobody is arguing about that. For healthy kids, it's very different.
It's great that most kids with myocarditis don't end up in the ICU, but being put in the hospital to get hooked up to an IV and an MRI scan is not a good outcome for an otherwise healthy kid who would would have -- at most -- a head cold from SARS-CoV2.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by jameshart on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:44PM
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Even if we accept this reasoning (It’s not clear to me that the myocarditis cases are more than ‘call your doc, rest up and take ibuprofen’, and I believe that applies to cases among non-hospitalized COVID patients too), but the last I saw the effective reproduction rate for COVID was >1, so every otherwise healthy kid who gets a ‘head cold’ is also going to pass it on to someone else, right?
> With or without treatment, the "clinical course appears mild"
> Patients commonly received NSAIDs, steroids, and colchicine for treatment of vaccine-associated myocarditis.
These are.. not comparable to typical COVID hospitalization outcomes, are they?