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by hedgehog 1610 days ago
In the near term COVID isn't that likely to make them really sick but a non-negligible % of kids appear to get MIS-C or weird long-term effects like diabetes. If we can extrapolate much from adults getting the kids vaccinated will go a long way towards reducing those.
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nradov 1610 days ago
Based on CDC data the risk of an infected child getting MIS-C is about 0.02%, and the risk of dying from MIS-C is about 0.0002%.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#mis-national-surve...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

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hedgehog 1610 days ago
Sure, and diabetes around 0.05%, and then the assortment of cognitive, respiratory, and cardiac symptoms that are less life threatening but more common. AAP has a reasonable overview:

https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...

There's a fair amount of uncertainty but stack it up the likely negative outcomes and I wouldn't let my unvaccinated kid catch COVID if I had a reasonable way to achieve that.

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