Jump to content

COVID-19: Vaccinating your kids


noobcarbuyer
 Share

Message added by BabyBlade

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-vaccination-students-school-moe-14919972

"SINGAPORE: More than 400,000 students aged 12 and above will be invited to register for the COVID-19 vaccine from Jun 1, announced Minister of Education Chan Chun Sing on Monday (May 31). 

This comes after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved by the Health Sciences Authority for those aged 12 to 15 earlier this month."

Recommended Posts

Turbocharged
17 minutes ago, bsswan said:

That sounds like a lot of work given MoH only concentrating on Sec.4 first, at each secondary and what's that, a couple hundred kids only?

oh.. maybe go to 1 school for like 1 estate... e.g. all the schools in bishan, go RI.. at least you know they are all 16 yo..

↡ Advertisement
Link to post
Share on other sites

Hypersonic

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/malaysia-warns-of-rising-number-of-covid-19-deaths--cases-among-children-14946542

Quote

Malaysia recorded the deaths of three children aged below five due to the coronavirus in the first five months of this year, the same number recorded over the whole of 2020, according to Health Ministry director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah.

A total of 27 children, including 19 below the age of five, also had to be treated in intensive care between January and May after contracting the virus, up from eight cases last year.

 

  • Sad 2
Link to post
Share on other sites

Hypersonic
58 minutes ago, Nolicense said:

oh.. maybe go to 1 school for like 1 estate... e.g. all the schools in bishan, go RI.. at least you know they are all 16 yo..

Creating more unnecessary work only lah.  Like that might as well block one centre for 3-5 days and get all these students to go there,  why need to spend extra resources to set up in school?  Then 2nd shot how?  Most of them would have a different interval. 

No need to start doing silly things because of one careless mistake lah.... [laugh][laugh][laugh]

 

  • Haha! 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

8 hours ago, Wind30 said:

this I think is something that should NOT have happened....

I mean instead of pushing the blame to the parent and the vaccination center, the process should be MOH should cross check the ages entered with the IC number by scripts. duh... that is like the most simple and efficient way to do it instead of WASTING all the vaccination centers time to check the age.

Well, it sort of sum up the whole gist of the current fiasco right: sort it out at the root or point of data entry and the cascading data down the chain will be good to go. No need waste resource to verify again. At least this also apply to my corporate process re-engineering fundamental.  

  • Praise 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Turbocharged
10 minutes ago, Tianmo said:

Creating more unnecessary work only lah.  Like that might as well block one centre for 3-5 days and get all these students to go there,  why need to spend extra resources to set up in school?  Then 2nd shot how?  Most of them would have a different interval. 

No need to start doing silly things because of one careless mistake lah.... [laugh][laugh][laugh]

 

400,000... that a lot of students leh.. in case they dont want to mess up wor..

BCG they go to all the schools leh.. 😆

Link to post
Share on other sites

Hypersonic
4 minutes ago, Wind30 said:

seems below 5 is more dangerous? So the safest age group for Covid seems to be teenagers.

I would say yes the youngest are the most vulnerable. Probably more frail then, prematurity/lung disease/more severe congenital disease etc.

But teens have more social interaction, and hence much higher chance of catching the virus. 

Anyway its hard to compare the mortality rate among young ones cos based on US data, deaths in all the age ranges below 18 are less than <0.1% of those infected. 

 

Link to post
Share on other sites

Supersonic
8 minutes ago, Lala81 said:

I would say yes the youngest are the most vulnerable. Probably more frail then, prematurity/lung disease/more severe congenital disease etc.

But teens have more social interaction, and hence much higher chance of catching the virus. 

Anyway its hard to compare the mortality rate among young ones cos based on US data, deaths in all the age ranges below 18 are less than <0.1% of those infected. 

Looks like no matter for which age group, the key thing is not to have high social interaction. Should limit social activities and also limit interact with too many different type of people. Should stick with a fixed group of people during this period.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Hypersonic
19 minutes ago, Nolicense said:

400,000... that a lot of students leh.. in case they dont want to mess up wor..

BCG they go to all the schools leh.. 😆

SG till date has vaccinated 4 million shots,  you saying now cannot handle 400,000 new shots? Simi logic? 

Seriously, this mess up is cause by a careless/ lazy mistake,  and not really an operation capacity error.  What then has these extra 400,000 going to be different?  Just another day just another number.  Big deal? 

Comparing to BCG is just stupid lah.  BCG was only for P6 students,  with very limited students in each school.  There was also no hurry, the same team could take their time from one school to another,  just like how the dentist track operate now.  

Compare that to the urgency of taking the covid 19 vaccine now?  

There were also lesser polyclinics to do BCG vaccination,  but now there are like how many vaccination centers? 

Anyway in case you not aware, been long ago since they discontinued the going to school to jab BCG liao,  all take at birth.... [laugh][laugh][laugh]

One silly/careless mistake,  and  ppl just fire blindly...  [laugh][laugh][laugh]

 

 

  • Praise 3
Link to post
Share on other sites

Turbocharged
6 minutes ago, Tianmo said:

SG till date has vaccinated 4 million shots,  you saying now cannot handle 400,000 new shots? Simi logic? 

Seriously, this mess up is cause by a careless/ lazy mistake,  and not really an operation capacity error.  What then has these extra 400,000 going to be different?  Just another day just another number.  Big deal? 

Comparing to BCG is just stupid lah.  BCG was only for P6 students,  with very limited students in each school.  There was also no hurry, the same team could take their time from one school to another,  just like how the dentist track operate now.  

Compare that to the urgency of taking the covid 19 vaccine now?  

There were also lesser polyclinics to do BCG vaccination,  but now there are like how many vaccination centers? 

Anyway in case you not aware, been long ago since they discontinued the going to school to jab BCG liao,  all take at birth.... [laugh][laugh][laugh]

One silly/careless mistake,  and  ppl just fire blindly...  [laugh][laugh][laugh]

 

 

ha? the big big hole BCG take at birth? for a baby that hole will be like the arm can fall off liao..😲

Link to post
Share on other sites

Hypersonic
33 minutes ago, Nolicense said:

ha? the big big hole BCG take at birth? for a baby that hole will be like the arm can fall off liao..😲

What talking you?  :blink:

Link to post
Share on other sites

"The World Health Organisation's top vaccines expert says vaccinating children against the coronavirus is not a priority, given the extremely limited global supply of doses.

Dr Kate O'Brien said children should not be a focus of COVID-19 vaccination programs even as increasing numbers of rich countries authorise their coronavirus shots for teenagers and children.

She said: "Children are at a very, very low risk of actually getting COVID disease."

Dr O'Brien, a paediatrician and director of the WHO's vaccines department, added that the rationale for immunising children was to stop transmission rather than to protect them from getting sick or dying."

 

Reporting via SkyNewsUK

  • Praise 2
  • Haha! 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Hypersonic

my eldest got his first jab this week... similar side effects sore arm a bit of giddiness 

my no 2 first appointment in about 2 weeks time

no 3 ... not of age yet

😬😅

↡ Advertisement
  • Praise 3
Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

×
×
  • Create New...