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Concerns About Vaccinating Young Children Against CoVid
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/JQ1tBKpexVk
Now that the Pfizer CoVid vaccine has been approved for kids 5 through 12 years and you have to decide whether to vaccinate your child, consider 3 issues: safety, necessity to maintain your child’s health, and the necessity to maintain your family’s and community’s health. Excellent thoughts on these issues come from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Vaccine Education Center.
Safety Issues
- Myocarditis: This heart tissue inflammation has rarely occurred in teens and young adults receiving mRNA vaccines. Only 5 of 100,000 males 16 to 29 years developed it compared with 59 of 100,000 after a CoVid infection. For females, those numbers are only 1 in 100,000 for the vaccine versus 39 in 100,000 for the infection.
- Fertility: For females, vaccination often temporarily creates menstrual irregularity but seems to have no impact on fertility. Antibodies to CoVid either from vaccination or infection do not affect fertility, and millions of vaccinated women, even very young women, have become pregnant.
For males: vaccination does not alter sperm count or sperm motility. A CoVid infection, though, does reduce sperm count temporarily. - Long-term effects: the genetic material in mRNA vaccines remains in the body for days to a few weeks at most, and it cannot change human DNA in the eggs or sperm.
Benefits for your Child:
Children DO get severe CoVid. Thousands have landed in hospitals and ICUs, and more than 650 have died. As more adults became vaccinated, the infection rates for kids have risen significantly from 3% at the pandemic’s start to more than 25% now. Vaccination with cut that rate back down.
Most worrisome is long CoVid with lingering symptoms of fatigue, headache, insomnia, trouble concentrating, pain, and cough. Then too, more than 5,000 children have been diagnosed with multi system inflammatory disease in children or MIS-C. The vaccine will reduce if not prevent these two complications.
Benefits for your Family:
Children infected with CoVid are very often asymptomatic, and they may silently spread the virus to parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches, and other children who immunity may be suboptimal due to illness or age. A recent study showed that 1 in 500 American kids has lost a parent or grandparent to CoVid. The vaccine will stop that silent and often deadly spread of disease.
The bottom line: The health and the way of life of all Americans are at risk from this continuing pandemic until all of us are vaccinated and have optimal immunity against CoVid. Do get your kid…. and yourself vaccinated.
https://www.chop.edu/news/feature-article-3-considerations-covid-19-vaccination-5-11-year-old-children
#children #covid #vaccine #safety #fertility #longcovid
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By Howard G. Smith MD, AM
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/JQ1tBKpexVk
Now that the Pfizer CoVid vaccine has been approved for kids 5 through 12 years and you have to decide whether to vaccinate your child, consider 3 issues: safety, necessity to maintain your child’s health, and the necessity to maintain your family’s and community’s health. Excellent thoughts on these issues come from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Vaccine Education Center.
Safety Issues
- Myocarditis: This heart tissue inflammation has rarely occurred in teens and young adults receiving mRNA vaccines. Only 5 of 100,000 males 16 to 29 years developed it compared with 59 of 100,000 after a CoVid infection. For females, those numbers are only 1 in 100,000 for the vaccine versus 39 in 100,000 for the infection.
- Fertility: For females, vaccination often temporarily creates menstrual irregularity but seems to have no impact on fertility. Antibodies to CoVid either from vaccination or infection do not affect fertility, and millions of vaccinated women, even very young women, have become pregnant.
For males: vaccination does not alter sperm count or sperm motility. A CoVid infection, though, does reduce sperm count temporarily. - Long-term effects: the genetic material in mRNA vaccines remains in the body for days to a few weeks at most, and it cannot change human DNA in the eggs or sperm.
Benefits for your Child:
Children DO get severe CoVid. Thousands have landed in hospitals and ICUs, and more than 650 have died. As more adults became vaccinated, the infection rates for kids have risen significantly from 3% at the pandemic’s start to more than 25% now. Vaccination with cut that rate back down.
Most worrisome is long CoVid with lingering symptoms of fatigue, headache, insomnia, trouble concentrating, pain, and cough. Then too, more than 5,000 children have been diagnosed with multi system inflammatory disease in children or MIS-C. The vaccine will reduce if not prevent these two complications.
Benefits for your Family:
Children infected with CoVid are very often asymptomatic, and they may silently spread the virus to parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches, and other children who immunity may be suboptimal due to illness or age. A recent study showed that 1 in 500 American kids has lost a parent or grandparent to CoVid. The vaccine will stop that silent and often deadly spread of disease.
The bottom line: The health and the way of life of all Americans are at risk from this continuing pandemic until all of us are vaccinated and have optimal immunity against CoVid. Do get your kid…. and yourself vaccinated.
https://www.chop.edu/news/feature-article-3-considerations-covid-19-vaccination-5-11-year-old-children
#children #covid #vaccine #safety #fertility #longcovid