My 11yo son contracted COVID at a camp last week while my wife and I were on a business trip. My 74yo parents picked him up from camp on Thursday and spent 2 days in close contact with him. Both are fully vaccinated with Moderna. My wife (J&J), 3 other kids (Pfizer) and I (also Pfizer) are all fully vaccinated. Our 11yo started feeling off on Thursday but didn’t think much of it and didn’t say anything. By Friday evening when my wife and I returned home, he had slight nasal congestion and a low-grade fever (99.8). We gave him a rapid test that came back positive on Sat morning. Yesterday afternoon our entire family and my parents took PCR tests. We received results today that confirmed our 11yo’s positive test but everyone in our immediate family was negative. My parents received one negative result but the second test didn’t come back today. Praying for a one more negative result tomorrow.
In any case, I was encouraged that we haven’t seen any breakthrough infections, at least to this point. In the meantime, my 11yo is doing well. No cough, the fever broke Sunday, and he has a slight runny nose. He continues to isolate in our basement and we will go for another round of tests at the end of the week.
Best wishes to your family. That sucks. Also stinks that your 11 year old is right on the cusp of vaccine age. Not like there's anything magical about 12 but I guess they had to choose a specific age. Glad to hear at least it's trending positively.
I think one of the saddest parts about COVID has been the isolation factor of those infected. Particularly those who died in a hospital not being able to see or touch their loved ones.
That is true, however, puberty doesn't usually BEGIN until 12 (for boys, 11 for girls) and for many, it starts much later, so clearly the trial of 12-year olds must have included a decent pre-pubescent population. (Also given that puberty itself is like a 4-year process.) But, yeah, certainly it's true that as humans, our development is an ongoing process and there are differences at different ages. Agree with that. Just saying that it's not like a child who is 11 years 360 days is really at any greater risk/concern from the vax vs a child who is 12 years 10 days old. It varies greatly how 'mature' one's body is individual to individual. But you have to have the cutoff somewhere...
There is a long history in medicine of testing new medications in adults first, then in kids ages 12-18, then kids ages 6-12 (usually), and then younger if necessary. It has ever been thus.
I don't know if anybody really knows how it got started that way, but it is definitely entrenched. The vaccine manufacturers chose 12-18 based on precedent.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
I've concluded that the REAL reason why so many are refusing to be jabbed is that they're needle sissies. I think they should be taunted as such until they man (or woman) up. Not sure why this wasn't clear to me sooner.
Kyle gets BUCKETS!
https://youtu.be/NJWPASQZqLc
From a medium sized metro area of about 2 million:
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63.4% of 12+ are fully vaccinated.
Both of my parents are negative, so that’s a huge weight off my mind. All 7 fully vaccinated family members came back negative. While it’s a minuscule sample size, we’re all very grateful that the vaccines are proving very effective in our specific situation.
I used to be a needle wussie...until I witnessed my wife's needle biopsy for breast cancer. Manning up for a vaccination is a very low bar.