• TachyonTele@piefed.social
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    21 days ago

    Can parents still get shots for thier child though? Ask thier doctor what shots they should have and just get them anyways?

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 days ago

      If their nearby medical facilities haven’t closed because of the Medicare cuts they can purchase off schedule vaccines from their for profit insurance at a premium if they can afford it, but kids & folks with immune problems or reasons why they can’t directly take the vaccines will be way more likely to suffer and die when the herd immunity is broken and they let a bunch of unvaccinated kids into public schools and daycare facilities.

    • vortic@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      I certainly hope so. That said, an individual being vaccinated doesn’t help nearly as much as having a large part of the population vaccinated.