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[quote=Anonymous]I reject the idea this is being “mishandled”. Pfizer and Moderna both have strong incentives to get these vaccines approved. The FDA has always had these standards for pediatric vaccines — you have to prove that the benefits outweighs the risks. It’s not unreasonable.

The truth is that it is hard to argue in favor of vaccines for this age group because their risk from Covid is so low. The reason Pfizer/Moderna went with such low doses in the trials is that higher doses will result in many kids spiking fevers as a side effect, and fevers in young kids can be very dangerous. Even if only a small percent of those fevers were dangerous, a higher dose vaccine could potentially pose more risk than Covid itself.

Thus the low dose trials, and the low efficacy. Compounded by the fact that the data in the trials is likely noisy because even in the control group, Covid rates are so low, and asymptomatic or extremely mild Covid is much more common than more serious cases. This makes it incredibly hard to show that vaccinated kids experience a benefit. Because they might not!

It’s not done grand conspiracy to keep you from vaccinating your child. It’s not incompetency. It is the normal and appropriate approach to approval of a vaccine for very young children.

Your kids are not at high risk of Covid. You don’t want to give your extremely low risk kid an in effective vaccine, nor do you want to give them a dose that could harm them.[/quote]

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