COVID-19 Vaccination for Children

 Authored by Nadine Assi Children all over America are learning how to adapt to online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It has currently been about over a year since this pandemic spread throughout the U.S. causing drastic quarantining, social distancing, and schools closing. The youth of this country have been forced to leave their classrooms and stay at home to learn. These kids are now caught up in learning how to attend online zoom classes while struggling to stay attentive from their families or lack of technology/Wi-Fi within the household. With all of this said, what is the best option for the children of America? To get back in the classrooms. But it is not safe for schools to be at full capacity again unless everyone is vaccinated- including those under 16 years of age. Being in a classroom, or any room in fact, can actually affect how Covid-19 is spread in the air. The difference in being outside versus being inside is the level of carbon dioxide in the air. This re...

Authored by Tatijana Liedman When COVID-19 vaccines were first being distributed they were being given out to adults who were at a higher risk of getting and dying from COVID-19 or senior citizens (60+ years) then finally the vaccine was open to Essential workers and now it has recently opened everybody in general. However, the only group that is still not able to get the vaccine are children. Why is that? Many do not want to get the vaccine even if they are eligible for it because of fear, religious reasons, conspiracy theories, or because of their own personal beliefs. In this post I will be talking about the Personal beliefs aspects of why children are not getting the vaccine.  Personal Beliefs  This vaccine only took such little time to be developed it should be studied more. That is one reason why many people are not getting their kids vaccinated, because there wasn’t that much research put into it, or so they think. I understand why it is such a concern for certain peopl...

Authored by Dillon Dimperio As we all know Covid-19 vaccines have been administered nation wide, and an increasingly large amount of individuals are being given the opportunity to receive the vaccine. But at the same time there is a large amount of individuals that refuse to receive the vaccine, whether it be due to personal beliefs, fear, religion, or even conspiracy theories; it is obvious that there is a large amount that do not want this vaccine. However, throughout this post we will explore the religious reasons as to why they are against the vaccine.  Conflict Before we get into the specific reasons religions would protest getting the vaccine, I want to take a look at the up and coming conflict groups are soon to face. "We are absolutely certain they will attempt to mandate the Covid-19 vaccine in the future once it becomes approved for use in children." (Carlesso). This means that in the near future it will be mandatory to have the vaccine and most likely the vaccine c...

Authored by Dylan Wakeley COVID-19 Vaccines have begun to roll out all across the US, yet children are being left out from getting the vaccine. You may ask, why is that? Why are kids not able to get something that has been stressed to the rest of us as extremely important? In this post I answer that. Why adults first Adults were and are the first people to get the vaccine. As the roll out started, it started with essential workers and others that were high risk. Now, it has moved to almost everyone. I have even got my vaccine and I am 20 years old. From what we know about COVID-19 and the way people get affected by it, children are known to be among the least effected. They are hit with similar symptoms as adults but less severe. Symptoms include but are not limited to cough, fever, sore throat, and runny nose (Nogrady). I know many adults who are high risk and have gotten the vaccine before a lot of people because of it.  In a country that got swept off its feet because of COVID i...