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Originally Posted by Wheek!
I think that under 16s are okay to vaccinate. They're germ factories, and they can protect the adults that don't get vaccinated (Even though there's a WHOOOLE 'nother set of opinions I can give on that), or help protect against some of the breakthroughs. I don't think herd immunity will ever happen, but they'll help reduce cases. We do see cases in classrooms, and we do have to quarantine parts, if not all, of classrooms, school buses, sports teams. It can get hectic and confusing, and it's not fair to the kids to have to be out of school for ten days, or even longer in the case of repeated exposures, when a vaccine can keep the kids in school.
There has been more of a debate with the booster shots. While waning immunity definitely is a thing and is a valid argument in favor of booster shots, it can also be argued that these vaccines could be a shot in the arm for someone in a developing country. Of course, wealthier countries like the US tend to come first, unfortunately. This is how we get more variants spreading.
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Dr. Dez: I don't think germ factory is a scientific term. Kids catch more colds due to less acquired immunity to them, but that has nothing to do with covid. The actual science says that kids have a lower chance of getting COVID and when they DO get it they are less likely to be symptomatic. Science also shows that symptomatic people are more likely to spread infection. So kids are safer than an adult in terms of an adult catching it.