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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To pp who says he would find new pediatrician if they recommended the Covid booster - that is ridiculous. The cdc recommends it so that pediatrician would just be doing their job! Not recommended it would actually go against professional guidelines. I'd be surprised by pediatricians at least not offering the vaccine.[/quote]

I’m not the PP you’re responding to and I wouldn’t switch pediatricians, even though our teen boys haven’t gotten any boosters. But their pediatrician doesn’t carry the vaccine or recommend it to kids.[/quote]

I am the PP who said I would find a new pediatrician if ours were "pushing" Covid boosters on my boys. Ours did actually offer boosters to us last year, but when I said that my kids had three shots and weren't getting any more, didn't bat an eye and moved on, and didn't bring it up again at this fall's physical.

I personally don't think they should even offer them because there is no evidence that benefits outweigh the risks, but I know they probably have to due to the CDC recommendation. I would only hold it against them if they insisted and showed that they truly believed it was a good idea.[/quote]

Hmmm… why do you think the CDC recommends boosters?  Do you think the doctors working there are more or less qualified to make recommendations as to infectious diseases than your local pediatrician?  [/quote]

Why doesn't anyone every grapple with the fact that NO OTHER PEER country recommends COVID boosters for kids/teens?  Are we so sure only the US gets this right (and every other country/UK/Europe etc gets it wrong)?[/quote]

Most other countries recommendations have nothing whatsoever to do with vaccine “risk” to young people, which is what most of the anti-vaxxers (who don’t want to be called anti-vaxxers) are arguing in this thread.  Their recommendations have to do with cost and resource allocation.

We can afford it, so we recommend it.  It’s that simple.[/quote]
No. Europe contracted with Pfizer and agreed to purchase set amounts of covid vaccines, so they have already purchased them. Europe is throwing away billions of dollars of covid vaccines given their decision not to make continued broad-based covid vaccine recommendations. This has been politically controversial. It would have been easier to make broad based recommendations and put these unwanted doses into the arms of Europeans but they did not feel that was medically justified so they are throwing the doses away instead and taking the political lumps. https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-bonfire-covid-vaccines-coronavirus-waste-europe-analysis/

Germany does not recommend any covid vaccine for children -- boosters or primary series. "The Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) currently recommends that babies, (young) children and adolescents without underlying conditions do not require a basic immunisation or booster against COVID-19 on account of the mostly mild courses of disease with a very low likelihood of needing hospitalisation." https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/en/coronavirus/faq-covid-19-vaccination.html[/quote]

Thank you! That should put the "it's just because they can't afford it" argument to rest ([b]which, by the way, is the height of American arrogance[/b]).[/quote]

Amazes me how many Americans still believe they’re so rich when American cities look like wastelands [/quote]

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