“I suspect kids born after 2019 lack natural coronavirus immunity.”
I know for sure that’s true, but they’ll never have The BEST immunity unless we permit them to develop it naturally. And we very much NEED them to have The BEST immunity.
But, look, we’re not talking babies, here; this is school kids Kindergarten to 5th Grade. They are a robust demographic, VERY capable of fighting off this thing, and its variants, without undue risk, without artifical aid, and building NATURAL immunity in that process. If we EVER again want to live without folks going about afraid of this thing, we have to recognize immunological the power represented by the untainted, natural immune systems of 28.4 MILLION kids 5-11 years old, nearly 1/10th of the U.S. population.
Whatever immunity they gain naturally today, will last their entire lives; 70, 85, maybe 100 years. And the more of them there are, the bigger that naturally immune subset of the greater herd becomes, which strengthens EVERYONE’s chances.
“Between February 2020 and 15 March 2021, Covid-19 killed at least 852 of Brazil’s children up to the age of nine, including 518 babies under one year old, according to figures from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56696907
It may be cheaper and safer to use monoclonal antibody treatment in infants. The CDC needs to get the research done and published.