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The Reuters article quoted below says children rarely suffer severe outcomes from Covid. Why should a healthy child take the risk of this emergency authorizatio
by landemva 4y ago
The Reuters article quoted below says children rarely suffer severe outcomes from Covid. Why should a healthy child take the risk of this emergency authorization medical treatment when children are generally okay?
- smt88 4y agoBecause, as I mentioned in my reply, many children survive Covid and still have significant negative effects that lost long after the infection clears up. Immune system battles are extremely hard on the body.
- landemva 4y agoThe first link said "studies quantifying the number of cases of long COVID in kids have varied widely." That first link also did not seem to indicate if Covid was diagnosed with blood test or PCR fragment amplification or flu-like symptoms. The second link was for "people". There is a significant lack of rigor in the diagnosis and studies of covid in children, though overall mortality in children is low. For children in decent health, the emergency treatment does not seem warranted until the typical new drug side-effect studies have been completed. Until the long-term safety studies are in, there are safe alternative prophylactics but those don't make much profit nor yearly recurring booster profits.