.. Several respected health experts have questioned the CDC’s resistance to adjusting its guidance this week for adolescents and teens:
Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, accused the CDC of misrepresenting the data and said children should be given just one shot to lower their risk.
“Why does a 300-lbs man get the exact same drug dose as a thin 12-year old girl?” Makary asked on Twitter.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, says young men 18 and older should seek out Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine, which is different from the more widely used Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines and not linked to heart inflammation. The J&J vaccine is only authorized for those 18 and older.
Boys 12-17, she said, should consider delaying the second Pfizer shot 8-12 weeks instead of the recommended three weeks, waiting longer if they live in an area where virus cases are low.
She argues that acknowledging the risks of side effects will “increase trust in public health.”
The World Health Organization has concluded that “more evidence is needed on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children to be able to make general recommendations on vaccinating children against COVID-19.”
“Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults,” the WHO says, “so unless they are part of a group at higher risk of severe COVID-19, it is less urgent to vaccinate them than older people, those with chronic health conditions and health workers.”
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