Are you getting your child 5-11 vaccinated? Why/why not?

My lads got their second jab today - just about over one month after contracting covid. All very easy and no side effects so far at least.

New study showing the pfizer vaccine isnt very effective at all against omicron infection in the 5-11 age group.

Its from the awful anti vax New York times. Literally the headline and by line is:

"Pfizer Shot Is Far Less Effective in 5- to 11-Year-Olds Than in Older Kids, New Data Show

While protection against hospitalization is still strong, the vaccine offered almost no protection against infection, even just a month after full vaccination"

Which is pretty much exactly what I said. Take it up with them

Kids already have protection against severe disease just by being kids. In the trials there were no severe cases or deaths, in either group. Even this article says:

"The vaccine’s effectiveness against hospitalization declined to 73 percent from 85 percent in the older children. In the younger children, effectiveness dropped to 48 percent from 100 percent. But because few children were hospitalized, these estimates have wide margins of error.

The numbers for protection from infection are more reliable."

And stop with the lying about what we were told about the vaccine. It was meant to stop infection, the evidence of these statements is still out there.

I won't be getting my 5-11 year old vaccinated (with this vaccine, open to more traditional ones if they become available in this age group). Thats my choice as a parent. You do you.

What I said:

"New study showing the pfizer vaccine isnt very effective at all against omicron infection in the 5-11 age group."

See how I specifically said "against infection"? I put it in bold there for you

What the study said:

"In the Omicron era, the effectiveness against cases of BNT162b2 declined rapidly for children, particularly those 5-11 years."

And

"VE against cases declined from 66% (95% CI: 64%, 67%) to 51% (95% CI: 48%, 54%) for those 12-17 years and from 68% (95% CI: 63%, 72%) to 12% (95% CI: 6%, 16%) for those 5-11 years."

That is consistent with my post. I think its you who has the "misconceptions" about what I'm saying. And also if you read the study, you would see that effectiveness against hospitalisation in that age group isnt as "strong as ever". It has declined quite a bit. Luckily for the vast majority of kids, the risk of severe illness and/or hospitalisation is extremely small to begin with.

So the cohort that are at an infinitesimally small risk of severe illness, hospitalisation and death from the virus are at an infinitesimally small risk of severe illness, hospitalisation and death after getting the vaccine. Stunning logic you have there.

Anyone giving this current vaccine to healthy kids would want their heads examined.

Ah, so now we're comparing childhood vaccines which have been around for decades and who's effectiveness doesn't wane after a couple of weeks to these covid ones? You probably thought the swine flu vaccine was a good idea for kids at the time too.