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Pfizer pushes back FDA submission for pediatric Covid vaccine
- mensetmanusman 5y ago3 shots for 2 year olds, yikes. I wonder what number of shots they would have to move to before people became suspicious of the cost benefit analysis. There has to be some environmental impact making all these 5 billion throw away needles.
- jackebofh 5y agoGood question. Would you rather use plastic cups and cutlery for convnience, or a single use needle needed to administer some medication. I'm geniuenly curious which way would the votes go.
- dkdk8283 5y agoThe impact is negligible, just more virtue signaling.
- notfromhere 5y agoKids get a ton of vaccines when they’re young - part of the reason why infant mortality has declined in the West. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
- didjathinkmess 5y agoI hear Myocarditis is absolutely huge in the 4 and under age group! Just trying to get out in front of this.
- barbacoa 5y agoNot just children under 4. There is a study going around that found 12-15 year olds are ~5X more likely to be hospitalized due to vaccine induced myocarditis than hospitalized due to covid.
- skyde 5y agosource ?
- barbacoa 5y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-risk-from-pfizer-jab-side-effect-than-covid-suggests-study https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r... Some of my verbage was off but from the article: "boys aged 12 to 15, with no underlying medical conditions, are four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in hospital with Covid" "About 86% of the boys affected required some hospital care"
- ostenning 5y agohttps://www.tga.gov.au/periodic/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-safety-report-02-12-2021 https://www.tga.gov.au/periodic/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-safe... Table 2: Age 12-17 boys Comirnaty (Pfizer): 10.6 per 100,000 doses. 1/10000.
- skyde 5y agodo you have any source for this ?