Casualties of reopening schools: Children dying from COVID-19
www.wsws.org
Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases throughout the United States, hundreds of children have lost their lives to the disease.

Can't wait for the narrative to be that "it was only a few kids" and not "perhaps we shouldn't have abruptly reopened schools"

  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is a casualty of not approving the vaccine for children ten thousand times more than it is a casualty of reopening schools. The FDA is willing to let thousands of children die to protect the sanctity of its own bureaucracy.

          • newmou [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Are there any stats or research around the likelihood of this? I got Covid last year and sometimes I just feel kind of…weirdly dumb about things. But idk if I’m just imagining it

    • machiavellianRecluse [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I am not an expert but they did fast-track the initial thing without any qualms no? Why would they want to protect their bureaucracy now?

      • fed [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        the emergency authorization is actually very similar to the regular authorization in terms of testing, the only real difference is production and testing occur at the same time

        here is a good info graphic for it https://images.app.goo.gl/zfw5jALmePbr7AxM8

      • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I can imagine they saw what happened with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and didn't want the bad pr from something like that happening with kids.

        Yeah, it's inconsistent, but I don't think there is any central decision making going on anywhere in the US when it comes to dealing with covid. Different people in different places not working together making decisions.

    • Parenti [comrade/them,any]
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      3 years ago

      At this point, I look at it as choosing between potential long-term damage/death and impaired social development

      I'd much rather have the latter

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      When I got my Moderna vaccine, the questionnaire asked if I had been infected within the past 90 days. The antibodies from that either could have made it ineffective or heightened my chance of a negative reaction to the vaccine, I forget which. I told the doc that I had a positive diagnosis and we had to go back on a calendar to make sure before she felt comfortable vaccinating me.

      I bet vaccine approval is going to come within that window for kids who get infected going back to school. An initial surge to get them all vaccinated ASAP, partial knowledge of infection history because it presents more mildly and there are lots of other respiratory viruses that kids get, staged exposure for those kids as classmates come back from sick days.