Do child COVID vaccines merit blanket Emergency Use Authorization? With @sdbaral and @VPrasadMDMPH, we suggest the low COVID risk to children undercuts such a regulatory decision, and that accelerated mass child vaccination carries underappreciated risks.https://medium.com/@wpegden/covid-19-vaccines-in-children-6cdff15b2415?source=friends_link&sk=49487d63149fc87e859deedf0d577eba …
This is, of course, the challenge. Much is still uncertain, although we can infer based on quite a lot of prior knowledge some idea of the risks. I do agree that weighing those against benefits is not a simple task
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And so I believe Wes’s article is reasonable. The IFR (and negative long term effects) for kids is no worse than the flu (Especially, H1N1) for kids in anything that I’ve found. So I think it’s prudent to protect our kids with a process that has proven safe in the past.
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I’d love to have an overview of the negative long term effects for kids vs the flu, do you have a reference? I have a 12yo so I’m super interested in understanding the individual risk.
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Yet that *is* the task. So how do you propose we go about it instead of dancing around it? Specifics would be helpful.
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