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How COVID shots for kids help prevent dangerous new variants
The Associated Press ^ | November 22, 2021 | By LAURA UNGAR

Posted on 11/22/2021 8:49:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Cadell Walker rushed to get her 9-year-old daughter Solome vaccinated against COVID-19 — not just to protect her but to help stop the coronavirus from spreading and spawning even more dangerous variants.

Scientists agree. Each infection — whether in an adult in Yemen or a kid in Kentucky — gives the virus another opportunity to mutate. Protecting a new, large chunk of the population anywhere in the world limits those opportunities.

Vaccinating kids also means reducing silent spread, since most have no or mild symptoms when they contract the virus. When the virus spreads unseen, scientists say, it also goes unabated. And as more people contract it, the odds of new variants rise.

Researchers disagree on how much kids have influenced the course of the pandemic. Early research suggested they didn’t contribute much to viral spread. But some experts say children played a significant role this year spreading contagious variants such as alpha and delta.

Getting kids vaccinated could make a real difference going forward, according to estimates by the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub, a collection of university and medical research organizations that consolidates models of how the pandemic may unfold. The hub’s latest estimates show that for this November through March 12, 2022, vaccinating 5- to 11-year-olds would avert about 430,000 COVID cases in the overall U.S. population if no new variant arose. If a variant 50% more transmissible than delta showed up in late fall, 860,000 cases would be averted, “a big impact,” said project co-leader Katriona Shea, of Pennsylvania State University.

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1 posted on 11/22/2021 8:49:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

By killing more of them than covid?

only a sick twisted freak would be for this.


2 posted on 11/22/2021 8:50:47 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said theintjey did story was false!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

1. It kills them.


3 posted on 11/22/2021 8:50:48 AM PST by struggle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Propaganda?

Totally forgets the most basic tenet of medicine.

“”First do no harm””


4 posted on 11/22/2021 8:51:23 AM PST by consult
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Liars, propagandists … wanting me to believe or do stuff.


5 posted on 11/22/2021 8:51:50 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Getting kids vaccinated could make a real difference going forward, according to estimates by the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub, a collection of university and medical research organizations that consolidates models of how the pandemic may unfold.

Getting kids vaccinated could make a real difference going forward, according to estimates by the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub, a collection of university and medical research organizations that consolidates models of how the GREAT RESET may unfold.

6 posted on 11/22/2021 8:53:06 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t care, still not taking it.


7 posted on 11/22/2021 8:53:52 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Get in the boxcars. It is good for you.”


8 posted on 11/22/2021 8:54:26 AM PST by SIDENET (Whatever they're threatening, the vaxx is worse...or they wouldn't be threatening you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Prophylaxis and early treatment renders the whole article moot. IVM and HCQ also ‘stop the virus from replicating’, but without so much damage to the victim.


9 posted on 11/22/2021 8:55:41 AM PST by RideForever (One of the CoVID naturally immune control group)
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To: struggle
1. It kills them.

Yes, dead kids carry no virus.

I wonder if death merchants from AP realize that there may be reckoning on day?

10 posted on 11/22/2021 8:55:59 AM PST by mvonfr
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Scientists agree. One first has to ask the question, "Who pays the scientists?" I equate Branch Covidians with Climate Change proponents. Pure supposition and hysteria coupled with intimidation.
11 posted on 11/22/2021 8:57:03 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: consult

That has been replace by “Conform of Suffer.”


12 posted on 11/22/2021 8:58:19 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: consult

Some doctors are speaking up on the injuries. https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/one-brave-icu-physician-reporting


13 posted on 11/22/2021 8:58:30 AM PST by azkathy (We the people are FED UP-pun intended)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://khn.org/news/author/laura-ungar/

Looks like the author works for the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Not a shocker.

The relationship not disclosed in the article, either.


14 posted on 11/22/2021 8:58:54 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: SIDENET

Showers and clean clothes are waiting for you when you arrive.


15 posted on 11/22/2021 9:00:12 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The mistake was in quarantining WELL PEOPLE. We would have gotten to herd immunity much sooner.....thanks to the high tolerance of our youth....who would have gotten mild cases.

In other words, that early quarantine would make a future wave and allow for the variant.

16 posted on 11/22/2021 9:03:58 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: cableguymn

IMO, this portrays only one possible outcome. There is also scientific evidence of antibody dependent enhancements of viruses that are caused by vaccines. Happened with RSV.


17 posted on 11/22/2021 9:05:55 AM PST by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Cadell Walker rushed to get her 9-year-old daughter Solome vaccinated against COVID-19...”

And who told Cadell to do that? Her pediatrician or the TV screen?

I really hate stupidity.


18 posted on 11/22/2021 9:10:06 AM PST by twoputt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How they lie more like it.


19 posted on 11/22/2021 9:17:01 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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“But some experts say children played a significant role this year spreading contagious variants such as alpha and delta.”

Experts = anybody on any topic more than 200 miles from home. Could some of these experts, since they aren’t named, be the same ones that decided people with gunshots to the head and dismembered in car crashes died of covid?

What significant role can a vaccine play that is not there to stop the virus but make it, sometimes easier, when you do get the illness. And since they do not have any confirmed vaccine to stop the virus in its tracks, aren’t we still talking about herd immunity just applying it for the future for the first time since it was originally to stop the first disease and not the two varients that have officially spawned from that? As of October 31, an appropriate date for death announcements, National Geographic has declared around 5 million people have died from he variants.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/covid-19-has-killed-nearly-5-million-peopleand-the-pandemic-is-far-from-over

The population of the world according to worldometers.com, is 7.9 billion. At the rate of death from the variants, it will never run out of people to catch them as they will morph anyway as the vaccines are not there to stop it or keep kids from getting it again.

Funny they should select the AP to make this profound stupidity since they haven’t told the truth in over 50 years as it is. They sure wasted a lot of ink as the same thing could be said next year and every year after when the variants spawn variants, at a much faster and higher rate each time. And when we reach variant zulu, they will have to start all over again making the first variant covid 20 with a catchy name like bubonic.

wy69


20 posted on 11/22/2021 9:17:58 AM PST by whitney69
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