It doesn't intrinsically makes sense perhaps...but the data suggests there is something to it.
Posted on 07/20/2021 3:55:06 PM PDT by rxsid
JCVI issues advice on COVID-19 vaccination of children and young people
Following a request from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) for advice on a possible extension of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, the JCVI has looked at the available evidence around vaccinating children and young people under the age of 18.
From today, the JCVI is advising that children at increased risk of serious COVID-19 disease are offered the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
That includes children aged 12 to 15 with severe neurodisabilities, Down’s syndrome, immunosuppression and multiple or severe learning disabilities.
The JCVI also recommends that children and young people aged 12 to 17 who live with an immunosuppressed person should be offered the vaccine. This is to indirectly protect their immunosuppressed household contacts, who are at higher risk of serious disease from COVID-19 and may not generate a full immune response to vaccination.
Under existing advice, young people aged 16 to 17 with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious COVID-19 should have already been offered vaccination.
The JCVI is not currently advising routine vaccination of children outside of these groups, based on the current evidence.
As evidence shows that COVID-19 rarely causes severe disease in children without underlying health conditions, at this time the JCVI’s view is that the minimal health benefits of offering universal COVID-19 vaccination to children do not outweigh the potential risks.
Almost all children and young people are at very low risk from COVID-19. Symptoms, when seen, are typically mild and fewer than 30 children have died because of COVID-19 in the UK as of March 2021.
Related: The Flimsy Evidence Behind the CDC’s Push to Vaccinate Children
JCVI issues advice on COVID-19 vaccination of children and young people (UK)
Not child predators
Sickening.
Kids with learning disabilities? Like dyslexia? ADHD? That doesn’t make sense.
It doesn't intrinsically makes sense perhaps...but the data suggests there is something to it.
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