3 ms·
> In this, the leaders of these American health agencies made the U.S. an international outlier in how it treats children. Sweden never offered vaccination to c
by calebm 4y ago
> In this, the leaders of these American health agencies made the U.S. an international outlier in how it treats children. Sweden never offered vaccination to children under 12. Finland limits Covid vaccines to children under 12 who are at high risk. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has appropriately stated that “some children may benefit” but “previous infection offers as good of protection as the vaccine against reinfection.” Denmark announced on June 22 that its recommendation to vaccinate any children under age 16 was a mistake.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoChildren never needed it. Their chances of dying to covid are basically zero. And since it seems to do absolutely nothing to prevent the spread, there's no reason whatsoever to give it them other than it'd very profitable to our industrial drug dealers to do so.
- wincy 4y agoMy family is sick with covid right now. My wife and I are overweight and so the doctor prescribed us Paxlovid. Day one was terrible, the sickest I've been in my adult life. I literally had pneumonia a month ago and it wasn't as bad. Things have been substantially better for my wife and I since we started Paxlovid. Our seven year old is feeling fine, and our three year old who is disabled and tends to get sick fairly often has a fever and slept for a day straight and had the world's worst diarrhea. Her doctor (who almost exclusively sees disabled kids like her) seems completely unconcerned about it and said to just treat it like any other illness, push fluids and give her Tylenol and Ibuprofen alternately to keep her fever down.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoAnecdotal.
- tlogan 4y agoIf science changes as soon as one crosses the border means it is not science. CDC might be wrong here but they will never admit. Never.
- epgui 4y agoContext matters, and sometimes the situation is different across borders.
- tapland 4y ago> Sweden never offered vaccination to children under 12 They (we) did. A list containing children under 12 who got vaccinated is at the center of a data breach this very week. There was also an uptick in deaths among young school-age children, which was somewhat 'offset' by lower deaths in the 12+ age-ranges. Vaccinating children doesn't do nothing, but with a small effect focusing on small at risk groups might be wise.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]