COVID Vaccines For Kids (And More)

Pfizer just announced that its COVID vaccine shows a robust immune response in children aged 5 to 11, using only a third of the usual dose for individuals aged 12 and over.

This is good news, and it means that emergency authorization for a children's COVID vaccine by late October.  And hopefully enough parents - those who have already been vaccinated themselves - get their children vaccinated so that the rate of full vaccination in These States gets to at least 70 percent by early 2022.  Boosters, except for the elderly, will have to wait, though.

In the meantime, we have to get as many eligible people vaccinated, and so far the best we can manage is still a quite embarrassing 0.1 percent daily increase in full vaccination.  This is all happening as the government has reported that more people have died from COVID than died in the 1918 flu pandemic.  And while 1 out of 500 people have died in this pandemic compared to 1 our of 150 in the 1918 crisis, when the U.S. population was a third of what is it is today - meaning , that it 1 out of 150 people were dying of COVID today, the numbers would be even worse - the death toll in this pandemic is till pretty bad.

Numbers showing that the situation it relatively better now than it was over a hundred years ago can't change the fact that people who shouldn't have died from COVID - because we have vaccines and no flu vaccine existed in 1918 - died just the same.  Then again, maybe they can.  I don't personally know anyone who has had or died of COVID, but I look at it this way.  If a friend or loved one of mine did die of COVID, I would be devastated and upset, but the fact that we don't have a death rate of 1 out of 150 cases would make me appreciate the friends and loved ones of mine who got COVID and recovered.

Get vaccinated, people.