[skazka16]

South Africa health minister confirmed that Omicron is a mild variant and is far less dangerous than Delta. It has also been confirmed that children:

1. Have higher chances of getting myocarditis after getting vaccinated.

2. Develop long lasting immunity after being exposed to the virus [1]

That makes me believe that there is absolutely no reason to vaccinate kids.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01089-8

[sjg007]

I mean #1 has been widely debunked and in #2 they didn't test against Delta or Omicron. Maybe the results generalize but from the adult studies we've seen all show reduced neutralizing responses to Delta and Omicron as compared to the original strain.

Prior infection seems better against Delta but omicron is it's own thing as in immunity is not maintained. Interestingly omicron infection may protect against delta however.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232698/omicron-largely-evade...

"Plasma samples from 19 children and 18 adults at >6 months after primary infection were tested for binding to spike and RBD from Alpha (B.1.1.7), Beta (B.1.351) and Gamma (P.1) variants compared to the original Wuhan genotype, which was used in previous assays."

[skazka16]

What do you mean debunked? It was NOT debunked. In fact, it has just recently been confirmed. Please, see this research paper - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf – for men <40, dose 2 and dose 3 of Pfizer have more myocarditis than sars-cov-2 infection, and this is true for dose 1 and dose 2 of Moderna. Also, Pfizer boosters (Dose 3) have more myocarditis for men <40 than infection.

[evan_]

if it's half as likely to send you to the hospital but it spreads four times as quickly, it will still send twice as many people to the hospital.