Dr Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
Our Unvaccinated Kids Are Unprotected
How We Can Keep Them Safe
I’m a Boston-based cancer doctor and I’ve been writing weekly fact-based-no-blame-no-rumors-all-science-all-the-time essays about Covid-19 since March 2020. You can read about other ways to navigate our post-vaccine world here and here and you can read about vaccines (and anti-vaxxers) throughout history here.
Our darling children are unvaccinated so they are unprotected and we need to keep protecting them.
They are unvaccinated because the vaccines trials were deliberately set up to not include them:
— we often wait to test kids until after vaccines are proven safe in adults
— kids don’t generally get serious disease from Covid so they wanted to test the vaccines first in people who get super sick
— the data for the vaccine trials for kids under 12 will not be final and available for evaluation for some number of months
When will kids be able to finally get vaccines? Putting on my Dr Covid Guesstimater hat:
Over 16: Pfizer is available now in many states
Ages 12–15: Probably this summer, maybe as early as May/June
Ages 5–11: Maybe the late fall?
