#COVID VACCINE FOR CHILDREN

[kazz-brekker]

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[covid-safer-hotties]

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All studies mentioned linked below and on the archive.

By Elisabeth Adkins Marnik, PhD

Q: What is the latest research regarding children under age 18 and Long Covid? A: Children under 18 are impacted by long COVID and experience many different symptoms that can affect their lives. Vaccines reduce the risk of developing long COVID, but we need more research into prevention and treatment for all age groups. Long COVID, also known as post acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), impacts adults and children under 18. There is a lot of debate happening right now related to the exact definition of long COVID. Every study and organization uses slightly different symptoms and definitions. For example, the NIH defines long COVID as new, ongoing, relapsing, or other health effects that last four weeks or more following a SARS-CoV-2 infection. On the other hand, the World Health Organization defines long COVID as the development of new or continuing symptoms three months after initial infection that last for at least two months without any other explanation. Different definitions like these make it very challenging to compare studies to each other and to know exactly how many adults or children are impacted by long COVID.

Do kids get Long COVID?

Despite these challenges there are many studies that demonstrate that children under 18 can be impacted by long COVID. However, due to the differences in study design and definitions,the percentage of children impacted ranges from 4 to 62%. However, most studies fall into the 10-20% range. Regardless of what study you use, the conclusion is the same – children are being impacted by long COVID. Research also shows that the symptoms can last years following infection and can greatly alter their quality of life.

What kinds of symptoms do children with long COVID experience?

The symptoms of long COVID vary a lot based on individual child, study and age group. Examples of symptoms include brain fog, fatigue, coughing, pain in muscles, joints, chest and/or stomach, headache, and mood changes. Long COVID is also associated with the development of subsequent autoimmune disease. A recent review created the graphic below to highlight how many organ and body systems can be involved.

It is also important to note that not every age group experiences the same type of symptoms. One recent study found that adolescents and school-aged children experience long COVID symptoms differently than each other. For example, school-aged children were more likely to have symptoms like brain fog, pain, and gastrointestinal symptoms. Adolescents were more likely to experience changes to taste and/or smell, pain, and fatigue.

In general, children with long COVID can experience many types of symptoms that can greatly impact their ability to play, learn, and experience life.

How can we prevent long COVID in children? Do vaccines help?

The best way to prevent long COVID is to avoid a SARS-CoV-2 infection. This has become increasingly difficult to do, but things like vaccines, masking, and improved indoor air quality can reduce the risk of infection.

We also have data from both adults and children that COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of long COVID. How much the risk is reduced varies a lot due to the differences in study design and long COVID definitions as highlighted above. One study found that COVID-19 vaccination was associated with a lower risk of long COVID diagnosis in children at 3, 6, and 12 months post infection. Another study found that vaccines were 41% effective at reducing the diagnosis of long COVID in children. But the study noted protection waned with time since the last dose, which supports the need for annual vaccines to help maintain this protection. A third study found similar results with vaccines reducing respiratory long COVID symptoms by 34-48% in children vaccinated.

While we do not know exactly how many kids are impacted, we do have enough data to know that children can and do develop long COVID and this can greatly impact their life. More research is needed to fully understand why some individuals develop it and how to better prevent and treat it.

Study links:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36728643/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35994282/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35739136/ www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00394-8/fulltext publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/153/3/e2023062570/196606/Postacute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-in-Children?autologincheck=redirected www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(24)00082-1/fulltext jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2822770 www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41879-2 academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/Supplement_2/ofad500.2466/7448254

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

The more vaccines an infant receives at once, the greater the chance the infant will develop an infection, a respiratory illness or developmental delays following their shots, according to a peer-reviewed study.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/new-study/peer-reviewed-study-infants-who-receive-multiple-vaccines-at-greater-risk-of-injury

#TheFreeThoughtProject #TFTP

[planetofsnarfs]

Higher COVID-19 vaccination rates are associated with a lower prevalence of parent-reported childhood asthma symptoms, according to a research letter published online July 3 in JAMA Network Open.

"Higher COVID-19 vaccination rates may confer protection against symptomatic asthma," the authors write. "COVID-19 vaccination yields prophylactic benefits against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection for individual children and may also protect against other human coronaviruses through cross-reactive antibody responses."

[freddyfreeman]

If I’m being real, I know we’ve already lost the l war with covid because (not only are most non-disabled individuals refusing to mask at this point), but a large faction of people (1) don’t believe covid exists and/or (2) don’t believe viruses exist. If we can’t even agree on the basic scientific theories that guide public health… we are doomed. Point-blank and period.

[awesomecooperlove]

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[datharlequinoni]

Should I become gravely ill with covid enough that my life is threatened, I have but one last wish for that scenario: To be locked in a room with as many anti-vaxxers as the room can fit, and given carte blanch to cough, sneeze, wheeze, and spread fluids around and on them until they either show symptoms or decide they've had enough and get vaccinated, whatever comes first.

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[californiaquail]

ok if both my rapid tests were negative at ten minutes but after 30+ more minutes developed a faint positive WHAT does that mean 😭 it says it can give a false positive if you read it very long after ten minutes but i'm scared

[asofterepilogue]

contrary to popular belief, wearing a mask indoors is NOT too big a sacrifice when the goal is to avoid spreading and getting a virus that can and does ruin lives. "it's just the flu" 1) it's not 2) I don't want the flu either. the fact that we didn't use to wear masks doesn't mean we shouldn't now. I promise we will all survive putting a piece of cloth over our mouth and nose a few hours a day, even if it's for the rest of our lives. it definitely beats dealing with chronic health issues.

[hellscape-halogens]

PEOPLE WHO CHANGE JOBS AS MUCH AS YOU END UP HOMELESS, ALONE, AND ON DRUGS. DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU.

[shimp-heaven]

Idk bro getting sick cause your gf is sick and there's no way you're just not gonna take care of her is idk kinda gay tbh

[inravel]

Let me tell you, children are the hope for the future.

rant incoming

You could say I conducted a little experiment where I would use gender-conscious German especially when talking with children.

Tell me why my 4 year old nephew who was just learning to speak used gender-conscious speech without a second thought while politicians have been discussing it for several years like it's some unsolvable conflict of interests.

You don't have to tell me why because I already know it has a ton to do with laziness and indifference. And maybe the fast-paced chew-out nature of public and political discourse. No one ever takes their time anymore because the current media demands big statements instead of carefully articulated essays. And for people outside the public eye it's really just a matter of training and changing our deeply ingrained behaviour. Which some people might simply reject because changing your ways means your previous ways were not perfect and that is an offense to anyone's ego.

And that's where children and teenagers and young adults are so much better equipped than 'adults'.

Actually let me also reference this post opening a debate on what being an adult means and whether or not behaviour 'reminiscing adolescence' should be accepted when growing old. And it's pretty black and white and basically assumes that any childlike trait is detrimental to a functioning and free (as opposed to fascist) society.

This is my personal opinion but the behaviours displayed by adult politicians across the world seem more typically childish than any child's. We don't need stubborn and close-minded defenses of political positions but critically curated solutions to problems. We don't need ideologists clinging to ideas of collecting land and resources as trophies and destroying everything to get their way. What they call strategic thinking is mostly just curating tricks to fool the opponent or build trust or mistrust.

Adulting can't just equal doing finances, building persona and ego, developing political stances or devoting time and energy to 'things that don't bring immediate pleasure'

I understand adulting as having empathy for people that are not you, as showing respect despite one's differences, taking responsibility for the earth and all it's inhabitants, as putting your ego down and accepting when you are wrong.

There are many more examples but I hope you get the point. Let's go beyond the child/adult - powerless/powerful - dichotomy and see what we can learn from each other. Because I certainly learn a lot more life skills from four year olds than from business executives.

I see so much more of an adult in my three year old niece showing off her vaccine spot and suggesting we shouldn't meet someone when they're sick than I see in people throwing covid parties and rejecting to wear a mask.

Or in all the 30+ self-declared 'soft beans' devoting their time to art and human connection and earning money righteously instead of suppressing and exploiting others.

We seem to confuse certain life stages with typical traits and then put labels on certain behaviours or styling choices. I think that serves nothing except to reinforce heteronormative and misogynistic - yang - ideals of being as powerful and steadfast as you can.

I'd love to know what you think 💬

Also I didn't proof read so let me know about any mistakes

Have a good day!

getting misgendered by adults but universally correctly gendered by children makes me feel like some sort of fairy creature thats true form is only perceptible to children

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

wait, Derin how did your leaving make the hospital shut down?

I used to work as a live-in nanny for a pediatrician.

Now, the thing about hospitals in my country is that they are massively understaffed and massively underfunded. This is especially true outside the major cities. The staff are worked to the bone and receive little to no help in things like finding accommodation or childcare, making working in rural areas a very uninviting prospect; staff come out here, get lumped with the work of three people (because there's nobody else to do it), burn out under the workload and leave, meaning that those remaining have even more work because that person is gone. It's unsustainable and the medical staff are doing their best to sustain it, because people die if they don't, so to the higher-ups it looks like everything's getting done and therefore everything is fine.

My friend (and boss) worked one week on, one week off, swapping out with another pediatrician. This was necessary because it would not be physically possible for one person to handle the workload for longer periods of time. The one single pediatrician had to hold up the entire pediatrics ward, which was not only the only public hospital pediatrics ward in our town, but also the one that served all the towns around us for a few hours' drive in all directions. I regularly saw her go to work sick, aching, tired, or with a debilitating 'I can barely make words or see' level migraine, because if she took a day off, twenty children didn't get healthcare that day, and some of these kids' appointments were scheduled weeks in advance. She'd work long hours in the day and then be called in a couple of times overnight for an hour or two at a time (she was on-call at night too, because somebody had to be), and then go in the next day. Sometimes she would be forced to take a day off because she physically could not stay awake for longer than a few minutes at a time, meaning she couldn't drive to work.

Cue my niece's second birthday coming up in Melbourne. I'd been working for her for about 3 years, and she (and the hospital) had plenty of advance warning that I (and therefore she) needed one (1) Friday off. That's fine, we'll find someone to work that Friday, the hospital said. Right up until the last week where they're like "oh, we can't find a replacement; you can come in, can't you?"

No, she tells them; I don't have anyone to watch my kid that day.

Oh, surely you can hire a babysitter for this one day, they say. Think of the children! We really really need you to work that day. I know we said it'd be fine but we need you now, there's no one else to do it.

There are no other babysitters, she told them. Unless you can find one?

That's not our responsibility, they said.

But I'm not changing my plans, she's got plans by now as well, the hospital knew about this one day weeks in advance, and with absolutely no reserve staff they're forced to reschedule all pediatrics appointments for that Friday. Not a huge deal, it happens on the 'physically too overworked to get out of bed' days too. I go to Melbourne, she goes back to her home in Adelaide for her recovery week, all should be on track.

My niece gives me Covid.

This was way back in the first wave of the pandemic, and there were no Covid vaccines yet. The rules were isolate, mask up, hope. I had Covid in the house, and it would've been madness for my friend and her toddler to come back into the Covid house instead of staying in Adelaide. There was absolutely no way that a pediatrician could live with someone in quarantine due to Covid and go to work in the hospital with sick children every day. And no support existed for finding another babysitter, or temporary accommodation, so the hospital was down a pediatrician.

The other pediatrician wasn't available to do a three-week stint. They were also trapped in Adelaide on their well-earned week off.

Meaning that the only major pediatrics ward within a several-hour radius had no pediatricians. They had to shut down and send all urgent cases to Adelaide for the week. To the complete absence of surprise of any of the doctors or nurses; of course this would happen, this was bound to happen, it presumably keeps happening. But probably to the surprise of the higher-ups. After all, the hospital was doing fine, right? Of course all the staff were complaining of overwork and a lack of resources in every meeting, but they could always be fobbed off with the promise of more help sometime in the future; the work was mostly getting done, so the issue couldn't be too urgent.

It's not like some nanny who doesn't even work for the hospital could go out of town for a weekend for the first time in three years, and get the only public pediatrics ward in the area shut down for a week.

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