Posted on 10/29/2021 10:19:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob
...On 10/20, the White House, in anticipation of FDA approval, released details of its plans to have kids vaccinated through pediatricians' offices, hospitals and other locations. Previously, the White House had told governors to start preparing to vaccinate children as young as 5 by early November. Administration officials said they had purchased 65 million pediatric doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, enough to vaccinate all 28 million children who would become eligible if the FDA approves the shots for children between the ages of 5 and 11 when it meets to consider the issue. An FDA advisory committee endorsed giving kids in that age bracket the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on 10/26.
Parents? Not so much. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, four in 10 parents with children between 5 and 11 plan to "wait a while to see how it is working" before vaccinating their kids. Their reservations run the gamut: Some worry the vaccine is not safe. Others believe the government has exaggerated the threat COVID-19 poses to kids. A small percentage are opposed to all vaccines. But many, like Hammond, who says she plans to "wait until the dialogue settles a bit," are simply confused by all the noise.
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...the risks to kids are higher than had first been thought. How high? To put it into some context, in a typical year the disease that kills the most children in the U.S. is cancer (about 1,800 deaths), followed by heart disease (about 600 deaths). The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that over the last two years, COVID-19 has killed roughly 570 American kids. and hospitalized about 22,000.
"Even though this doesn't represent the same degree of death and hospitalization as you're seeing in adults, it still represents a major cause of death and hospitalization in children," says Yvonne Maldonado...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Indeed.
LOL: A former honors student, I resemble that latter remark. :-)
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