The NYTimes coverage of covid and children has sensationalized the risk, & lacked numerical perspective.
As such the coverage torpedoed 1 year of in person school, and now is leading anxious parents to push for off-label vaccine &. going to extremes....
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I believe that people should ALWAYS enroll in randomized controlled trials, but one should do so from a neutral emotional state with knowledge of potential risks and benefits.
Pushing for off-label use is not good.
This is a direct result of NYtimes & others fearmongering 👇
This part puzzles me. Even without a covid vaccine, isn't it totally safe for a kid to go camping -- aka OUTSIDE?-- with their family? Were they holding off on going outside?
Yes, the rate is higher than it has been, but the rate is still.. very very low compared to risks we take all the time in life
Why won't the time put the risks in perspective?
These are UK data:
A bigger risk to kids than sars-cov-2 are adults who lack the ability to weigh those risks against prolonged school closure.
Here is one solution:
We can just increase the sample size of these trials... more slots & more power for rare AEs
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