“I’m a mother who needs to keep her children safe, and if the governor here had mandated masks in school I might have thought differently.”
Mimi Allen has two daughters, 14 and 10. She is raising them alone. They are her world.
Having a child under 12 receive the vaccine raises medical and ethical questions and can bring justifications that can range from understandable to specious. Among the former: Children with underlying conditions deserve a shot considering the alternative. The latter: With many people declining the vaccine one might as well use a dose, although doses are still needed for at-risk adult holdouts.
The FDA is in a race against the clock on a few fronts. When it comes to adults, some Americans have said they will get a shot only when the agency gives full, versus just emergency, approval of the vaccines. The Biden administration has said that may happen next month. Given those concerning trends, there’s little surprise some parents are mulling taking matters into their own hands.
“The FDA is working as expeditiously as possible, but the reason we’re conservative with kids is because if you get things wrong, the stakes are higher,” said Hotez, who also is co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.Hotez notes that “not all 11-year-olds are created equal,” and the vaccine’s effect on children may prove different from the effect on adults.
Asked what he would tell parents, Finder offers advice that may prove difficult to act on in these fraught political times. Given that medical experts agree that masks help cut the risk of getting COVID-19, he encourages parents have kids wears masks while they themselves engage in discussions with friends and relatives about what is important to them. "We have to find some mutual understanding," he said.
“Well, lying is wrong. We tell children not to do that,” she said. “Involving your child in this lie seems hard to justify. It doesn’t seem worth it, as a parent, to be forced into a lie, falsify a medical record and perhaps get false benefits from the vaccine, all when the FDA may well fast-track this for kids soon.”
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