The FDA is widely expected to approve COVID vaccinations for kids as young as five by the end of the month. Health departments are getting ready now.
The vaccine is currently approved for patients age 12 and up. Pfizer has submitted data to the FDA from clinical trials on younger patients. Marion County health director Virginia Caine says she’s been talking with school districts about hosting vaccine clinics — she anticipates three different locations in different parts of the county. She’s also reaching out to community health centers, and to pediatricians who haven’t been giving the vaccine because their patients are too young.
The youngest patients currently eligible for the shot are also the least likely to get it — only a third of kids age 12 to 15 are vaccinated. Caine says it’s possible those numbers will be higher for even younger kids. She says parents are sometimes extra-protective when their kids are young, but as they become accustomed to being parents and their children become teenagers, parents may take their foot off the gas a bit.
With patients of all ages, Caine says, one of the obstacles to vaccination is combating misinformation about the vaccine. Where kids are concerned, opponents make an additional argument: that COVID isn’t dangerous for them. While it’s true they’re less likely to be hospitalized, that number has been rising: one of every 12 Hoosiers under 20 to be hospitalized for COVID has been admitted in the last month. And Caine says she’s concerned about kids suffering long-term health effects.
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These Obervaxenführer’s wold be better of concentrating on treatments for those most at risk. Kids are the least at risk especially when NO ONE knows the long term risks of the “vaccines” which are really shots. They are not “vaccines” since they do not prevent the disease. From the get go the claim was these shots will help prevent hospitalizations or death. yet they don’t even do that. I wonder how many of the targeted kids are being tested for antibodies???? Ff their parents had Covid they were likely exposed and have antibodies already
The side effects of the experimental injections pose a greater threat to the health of children than the COVID virus does. Why in the world would anyone inject their kids with experimental drugs to lessen the effects of a virus with a 99.998% survival rate among kids 10 and under?
Remember, once upon a time the FDA said thalidomide was safe…