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Why vaccinate children under 12? The only good reason I can see is if they have some sort of known health condition. Is there any other reasons why you would do
by h3cate 5y ago
Why vaccinate children under 12? The only good reason I can see is if they have some sort of known health condition. Is there any other reasons why you would do this?
- danans 5y agoThe same reason to vaccinate everyone else: to minimize the opportunity for a more virulent strain to emerge - one against which current vaccines are ineffective.
- base698 5y agoI think you have that backwards: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/leaky-vaccines-may-create-stronger-viruses-357575%3famp=1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/leaky-vaccines... Selection pressures and non sterilizing vaccines are what causes more virulent strains to emerge.
- h3cate 5y agoBut covid mutates and replicates in people whether they're vaccinated or not?
- xorcist 5y agoWhy not vaccinate kids for every other endemic virus under the sun then?
- outside1234 5y agoWe should if that virus kills people at a high rate like COVID!
- spookthesunset 5y agoGiven the flu kills more kids than covid, we should probably require them to get that vaccine. Given more kids drown than die of covid, we should probably restrict their access to water. Given more kids die in fires, we should keep them out of structures made of wood. Given more die in auto accidents, they shouldn’t be allowed in cars.
- saalweachter 5y ago... we do?
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoGiven that viruses respond to evolutionary pressure such as vaccines, this seems like a strange position.
- robocat 5y agoVaccinating the ~50 million kids of the US would make a 1% dent in the ~5 billion unvaccinated worldwide. That won’t really make much of a difference in new strains emerging. https://fortune.com/2021/07/14/covid-vaccine-tracker-update-worldwide-us-countries-pfizer-moderna-johnson-johnson-numbers-data/ https://fortune.com/2021/07/14/covid-vaccine-tracker-update-...
- fxtentacle 5y agoLower risk of heart muscle infection.