COVID-19 and vaccination for age ≤ 15

illneversaynever
Thu, 27 May 2021 22:47:03 +0000

I’ll confess that I haven’t gotten my 12-15 year olds vaccinated yet. My husband and I leaped to get ours when able, but when I realized the EUA only had 1100 kids get the vaccine (and another 1100 placebo) it made me want to wait until the sample size was bigger. In the ideal world, I’d wait for two months after the second shot to satisfy my inner safety nerd (which would land us ~8/10), but would like the kids vaccinated before school starts next year. I sort of feel like I’m being irrational–how much different in response to vaccination are the 12-15 y/o bodies than 16? But…I can’t quite shake wanting to wait. (Hear me: it’s not if, but when. And if the number of infections here were higher, I think I’d recognize the luxury of my thinking and just get it done.)