COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Arathrael said
I don't agree with them. Vaccination does help prevent transmission, since it reduces the risk of being infected in the first place, and if you're not infected, you're not infectious. Additionally, Covid-19 itself has a substantially higher risk of myocarditis, and that also tends to present itself more seriously than the rarer vaccine-associated myocarditis.

So, assuming the risk of exposure to Covid is substantial, then vaccination offers an overall reduction in the risk, and potential severity, of myocarditis. Plus the indications are that it reduces the risk, and severity, of long Covid, etc.

Im strictly speaking for males under the age of 18 with 2 or 3 shots.

Your myocarditis data is working on the assumption that Omicron is the same as Delta and I’m working under the assumption they are very different.

The vaccine does not prevent infection of Omicron or at least it’s not even close to good at doing it. Yes, it may reduce the risk of death or severe illness but in children that risk is proving to be close to non-existent and a single shot is showing to add to that effectiveness while also having a greatly reduced risk of myocarditis compared to after a second shot. Recent data coming out of several places have shown this to be the case. Like all data, I consider it a single source but It’s enough to make me hit the pause button out of an abundance of caution.

I'm not advocating against the vaccine. Quite frankly, I think it matters very little at this point in children one way or the other. I might even go a step farther and say that we are overusing vaccines and would be better off going against boosters except in people of higher risk like those that are 40+ with preexisting while working to get undervaccinated countries going with at least single shots. I think we'll find it better to take a break from vaccines while Omicron is dominating and begin coming up for a plan to quickly reintroduce vaccines in the event a different strain comes knocking.

Omicron is the endimic version of covid we have been hoping for. The back side of this wave is going to result in a long down period with low case numbers. It appears that we have already started hitting that peak. Why are we trying to boost antibodies when half the country just had a fresh case of Omicron and we are headed for a big trough in cases against a strain that is proving to be significantly less severe?