Our Kids Under 5 Lack CoVid Protection

 

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Ninety-seven percent of US children 2 and under have not received any CoVid vaccination protection, and 95% of those ages 2 to 5 years haven’t as well.  These are the latest CDC estimates as CoVid hospitalization rates are rapidly rising for American infants and toddlers.

 

The good news is that better protection is now available for all children 6 months through 5 years of age.  The Omicron-specific bivalent vaccine has recently been CDC and FDA approved for this age group.

 

Remember too that the only protection available for our infants 6 months and under comes from their mothers, if they received CoVid vaccinations or a booster during their pregnancies.  The protective CoVid antibodies pass across the placenta to the developing fetus before birth and pass to the baby in breastmilk after birth.

 

CoVid rates are now surging in all US metropolitan areas following the Thanksgiving holiday. They will continue to rise during the December holidays.  To protect our most vulnerable neighbors including the very young and the oldest, it is critical that all of us not only keep our CoVid vaccinations and boosters current but also return to the defensive use of masking when indoors, on mass transit, and in crowds.

 

//covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demographics-trends

 

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