Vaccinated Parents Are Catching COVID As Schoolkids Bring The Virus Home

[Jilly_in_VA]

"We were so careful," says Alysha Johnson, a resident of Discovery Bay, east of San Francisco. "I'm a germaphobe. When this whole thing happened, we didn't leave the house for six months."

Johnson was crushed when her toddler caught COVID-19 at a summer play group recently.

"It was a pretty big deal how sick he got," says Johnson. "It wasn't just a little sniffle."

Her 2-year-old suffered a sore throat, a cough and a 104 degree fever. The bout lasted more than a week and sickened Johnson, her sister and her boyfriend — all of whom had been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

"It felt like a really bad sinus cold," Johnson says. "I felt exhausted. I lost my sense of taste and smell. That was the most bizarre sensation."

Johnson is relieved her vaccination likely protected her against a more severe case of COVID-19. But the fact that kids are transmitting the coronavirus to family members is unnerving many parents all over the U.S., and putting extra stress on many households as children head back to school.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/23/1029737143/breakthrough-covid-infections-add-even-more-chaos-to-schools-start-n-2021
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In Tennessee, where the governor is a RepubliQan and masks are optional at best, my grandsons have headaches and runny noses and their mom is awaiting results of Covid tests. My 3 year old granddaughter was held out of preschool this year because Covid.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. And even worse, the parents are going to work, etc. in the meantime, while sick and not knowing

that they are sick, infecting all around them too.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Or maybe just carrying the virus

Lots of people have it who aren't symptomatic, apparently.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Still spreading it around...

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Who didn't see kids with covid as vectors?

I was so concerned about this I wrote several emails to the local school board. I was fortunate enough to have the superintendent engage in a thoughtful dialogue with me on the subject. And it didn't help a bit.

I believed that the educated people who are responsible for taking care of our children while they are in school would actually take care of them. But healthy kids are expected to take a back seat to educated ones, apparently. I wish they would consider both with equal measure. I don't understand it.

[Mr.Bill]

5. I have a 14 year-old nephew

who refuses to get vaccinated. He is not welcome in my house.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. No doubt he's been influenced by the adults in his orbit.

I wouldn't allow him in my house either. I think you are being very prudent and pragmatic to set that boundary. ❤

[Mr.Bill]

7. Actually his mother is a Medical Assistant currently taking classes to be an RN.

She is not anti-vax by any means. Dad is not in the picture, and mom is too weak-willed to force it on the child. We're all working on him and I think eventually he will come around. He also has a grandmother who has a chronic respiratory illness that lives in the same house. He has always cooperated with masking rules and wears one around her. They are also requiring masks at his school, which went back to in-person classes a few weeks ago.