Well my kid was in the hospital for two weeks with myocarditis. One of 700 cases in the US at the time. Not sure what the number might be up to now. He is fine.
Interestingly enough, my father was in the hospital at the same time being monitored for a potential heart attack.
The were both going through exactly the same testing and treatment. In other words, my young son was, among other things, being tested for the heart attack enzyme.
In this case it was the Pfizer vaccine. The rest of the family, myself included, got Moderna.
The issue --with kids-- seems to have been that the second dose had to be lower than what they were/are giving them. I haven't followed developments since he got out. He had a three month checkout and all was well.
While our entire family is vaccinated, this event made me realize that we must not vilify those who have doubts.
Yes, of course, I wish everyone was vaccinated. And yet, I have to ask myself: What would we had done had we known there was a potential for our young kid to actually suffer a heart attack because of the vaccine? As small as the probability of something like that might be, I am not sure how I would answer the question. My wife is an MD. Her opinion is we probably would have given them just one dose. Still, it's easy to say things like that after the fact.
Interestingly enough, my father was in the hospital at the same time being monitored for a potential heart attack.
The were both going through exactly the same testing and treatment. In other words, my young son was, among other things, being tested for the heart attack enzyme.
In this case it was the Pfizer vaccine. The rest of the family, myself included, got Moderna.
The issue --with kids-- seems to have been that the second dose had to be lower than what they were/are giving them. I haven't followed developments since he got out. He had a three month checkout and all was well.
While our entire family is vaccinated, this event made me realize that we must not vilify those who have doubts.
Yes, of course, I wish everyone was vaccinated. And yet, I have to ask myself: What would we had done had we known there was a potential for our young kid to actually suffer a heart attack because of the vaccine? As small as the probability of something like that might be, I am not sure how I would answer the question. My wife is an MD. Her opinion is we probably would have given them just one dose. Still, it's easy to say things like that after the fact.