the urgency and messaging around vaccine approval for kids under 5 is baffling. There's no sense of urgency from the federal government and no clear communication from public health officials about the risks to kids that age
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and of course there's the added quirk that kids under 2 are physically unable to wear masks
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hard to come to any interpretation other than public health officials just don't want to plainly state what the observed risk to young kids is
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Replying to @TheStalwart @BenDWalsh
Sorry as in the idea that there's some urgency or importance around vaccination for infants seems to be almost uniquely American
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do other countries pool their 3 year olds into rooms where they all share the toys they put in their mouth or is that uniquely american? genuinely have no idea what childcare/preschool is like elsewhere
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Replying to @InfoRatioed @Birdyword and
It’s the same, we call it nursery or kindergarten instead of daycare but the basic idea is the same. The noise around vaccinating under-5s is a uniquely American thing, most other countries dgaf.
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My interpretation is that it’s partly because vaccine uptake is low in the US compared to other developed countries, and partly because vaccines became weirdly political in the US, more so than elsewhere.
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Replying to @macrocephalopod @Birdyword and
“Weirdly political in the us” boy I don’t know
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