3 ms·

I don't have kids but watching my friends go through that was obnoxious. I remember a comment from someone in the vaccine industry. He said the number of vaccin

I don't have kids but watching my friends go through that was obnoxious. I remember a comment from someone in the vaccine industry. He said the number of vaccines that don't cause problems for adults but causes problems when given to children is zero. Worse the initial trials for children underdosed the vaccine. I think the mistake being made was the FDA and vaccine companies trying to placate lunatics.

whimsicalism 3y ago
Sure, but given that there are adverse effects from pretty much all vaccines and covid is generally (ie. in the data not anecdotes) not really risky for children - you are potentially causing more risk from side effects than you are preventing. This neglects the second order effects of who the children might infect, which imo is the real justification for covid vaccination of children who are not immune compromised.
crote 3y ago
The same does not apply to drugs in general. There are plenty of medications which are fine for grown adults but a big no-no for developing children. The Covid vaccine was not just another generic influenza vaccine, it was the first-ever approved mRNA vaccine. It works in a completely novel way and although side effects in children were unlikely, there was simply not enough data to rule it out completely.
mongol 3y ago
Strange, since I don't work in the vaccine industry and can provide an exsmple: Pandemrix. It caused narcolepsy for some children, in a certain age. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix "At the end of March 2011, an MPA press release stated: 'Results from a Swedish registry based cohort study indicate a 4-fold increased risk of narcolepsy in children and adolescents below the age of 20 vaccinated with Pandemrix, compared to children of the same age that were not vaccinated.' The same study found no increased risk in adults who were vaccinated with Pandemrix"

whimsicalism 3y ago

Sure, but given that there are adverse effects from pretty much all vaccines and covid is generally (ie. in the data not anecdotes) not really risky for children - you are potentially causing more risk from side effects than you are preventing. This neglects the second order effects of who the children might infect, which imo is the real justification for covid vaccination of children who are not immune compromised.

crote 3y ago

The same does not apply to drugs in general. There are plenty of medications which are fine for grown adults but a big no-no for developing children. The Covid vaccine was not just another generic influenza vaccine, it was the first-ever approved mRNA vaccine. It works in a completely novel way and although side effects in children were unlikely, there was simply not enough data to rule it out completely.

mongol 3y ago

Strange, since I don't work in the vaccine industry and can provide an exsmple: Pandemrix. It caused narcolepsy for some children, in a certain age. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix "At the end of March 2011, an MPA press release stated: 'Results from a Swedish registry based cohort study indicate a 4-fold increased risk of narcolepsy in children and adolescents below the age of 20 vaccinated with Pandemrix, compared to children of the same age that were not vaccinated.' The same study found no increased risk in adults who were vaccinated with Pandemrix"