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Finally a bit of sanity around this topic, from a physician at the Vaccine Education Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia no less, and printed in the New

by miles 4y ago

Finally a bit of sanity around this topic, from a physician at the Vaccine Education Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia no less, and printed in the New England Journal of Medicine: "I believe we should stop trying to prevent all symptomatic infections in healthy, young people by boosting them with vaccines containing mRNA from strains that might disappear a few months later." Sweden is well ahead of the curve: Jan 28, 2022: Sweden decides against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-decides-against-recommending-covid-vaccines-kids-aged-5-12-2022-01-27/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-decides-against-... Sep 30, 2022: Sweden to stop offering Covid jabs to teenagers https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-sweden-covid-jabs-teenagers.html https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-sweden-covid-jabs-tee...

chitowneats 4y ago
You have a typo in your first date. Should be obvious to any readers but figured I'd mention anyway. Unfortunately, It's doubtful invoking Sweden will be persuasive to those who firmly believe they had worse outcomes during the pandemic due to their policies.
- miles 4y ago
  > You have a typo in your first date. Those are the correct dates as reported by the respective sites: January 28, 2022 for Reuters and September 30, 2022 for Medical Xpress.
  - crackercrews 4y ago
    The first date says "2002" not "2022".
    - miles 4y ago
      My humblest apologies! Thanks for letting me know - just fixed it. Again, mea culpa!
- miles 4y ago
  > It's doubtful invoking Sweden will be persuasive to those who firmly believe they had worse outcomes during the pandemic due to their policies. Apparently countries that enacted far more draconian policies than Sweden actually fared worse in incidence of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 population[0], like Italy (307.07), Austria (239.5), France (241.38), and Spain (246.46) (vs. 206.86 for Sweden). [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-death-rate-europe-by-country/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-deat...

by miles 4y ago

chitowneats 4y ago

You have a typo in your first date. Should be obvious to any readers but figured I'd mention anyway. Unfortunately, It's doubtful invoking Sweden will be persuasive to those who firmly believe they had worse outcomes during the pandemic due to their policies.

miles 4y ago
> You have a typo in your first date. Those are the correct dates as reported by the respective sites: January 28, 2022 for Reuters and September 30, 2022 for Medical Xpress.
- crackercrews 4y ago
  The first date says "2002" not "2022".
  - miles 4y ago
    My humblest apologies! Thanks for letting me know - just fixed it. Again, mea culpa!
miles 4y ago
> It's doubtful invoking Sweden will be persuasive to those who firmly believe they had worse outcomes during the pandemic due to their policies. Apparently countries that enacted far more draconian policies than Sweden actually fared worse in incidence of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 population[0], like Italy (307.07), Austria (239.5), France (241.38), and Spain (246.46) (vs. 206.86 for Sweden). [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-death-rate-europe-by-country/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-deat...