Parents Grapple With How Long to Wait for Their Children’s Second Shots

The New York Times ^ | Dec 2021 | Cassandra Willyard

[CondoleezzaProtege]

When Dr. Joshua Ishal got his 5- and 7-year-old daughters their first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine last week in Queens, he joined millions of other parents in protecting their 5- to 11-year-old children since the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was authorized for this age group in late October.

Dr. Ishal, a dentist who lives in Great Neck, N.Y., never questioned whether he would get his children vaccinated, but he has been wavering over the timing of their second shots.

The clinical trials that tested the Pfizer vaccine separated the doses by three weeks, which is why the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that interval. But emerging data suggests that a longer wait bolsters the immune response in the long run. What’s more, the extra time may reduce the risk of myocarditis — heart inflammation — a rare but serious side effect of the mRNA vaccines in adolescents and younger adults.

Health authorities in Canada recommend that children wait at least eight weeks between doses. In Britain, kids wait 12 weeks for the second shot.

[hillarys cankles]

Meant poison shot. But S works too, hahaha

[Grampa Dave]

Covid Vaccines/boosters are now for ever, from now to eternity?!

Thanks to Sans-Culotte for this needed dose of Vaccine/Booster Reality versus the daily mediot B$ insanity of Vaccine$/Booster$!

Thanks to Sans-Culotte for this injection of reality!

[kiryandil]

Doc Josh kisses goodbye to his future grandchildren.

Everything is going according to plan.

[WMarshal]

The goddamned COVIDiots are the lowest form of life that there is.

[Maudeen]

My first thought exactly like yours when I read the headline - CHILD ABUSE.

[lurk]

These parents need to be shaken from their cult spell.

[CFW]

Can you imagine being the parent who immediately got their children vaccinated but vilified the other parents who decided not to get their children the shot, only to have the vaccinated child become permanently disabled or dead just after being vaxxed? We KNOW that COVID presents an almost zero chance of harm to young children based upon two years of evidence. However, we do not know the long-term effects of the vaccine on children. I truly don’t know if I could live with myself.

[JennysCool]

Every story on COVID should begin with the following note, in big bold type:

The following article concerns a virus with a 99.7%-plus survival rate.

[Caipirabob]

Jeez, our kids graduated college just as this crap turned to…crap. My wife and I are so grateful they were spared this idiocy.

[Trillian]

He looks like a child killer.