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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Q&A on why US is an outlier in making all-age covid booster recommendations:
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-02-28/why-the-u-s-is-an-outlier-on-covid-boosters-for-kids

“CHOP's Offit: The goal of this vaccine is to prevent serious illness. That’s the goal. So the question then becomes: Who is getting seriously ill? That generally falls into four groups: the elderly, those who have high-risk medical conditions, people who are pregnant or people who are immunocompromised, and that’s why those countries make those recommendations. I think that the reason the U.S. broadly recommends boosters for children is because we think that a nuanced recommendation – meaning targeting high-risk groups – is a garbled recommendation, and the best way to get those high-risk groups vaccinated is to recommend the vaccine for everyone.”[/quote]

Which is exactly why the messaging from pediatricians as seen on this thread differs. Your own pediatrician is basing things off your child and his or her risk factors for serious illness and not responsible for making generalized population level recommendations. My pediatrician stresses annual flu but left it to us if we wanted Covid vaccines since we were low risk.[/quote]
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My bet is that in most cases where people on this thread report that their pediatrician recommends boosting their child, it has NOTHING to do with the child's individual risk level, and the pediatrician is just blindly following the CDC recommendation, [/b]without actually looking at the data. Some doctors are just more comfortable than others thinking critically and looking beyond US borders to evaluate whether a recommendation makes sense or not.[/quote]

This was the case for my teen son.  He never got the original Covid shot and is certainly not getting any boosters.  He is not in any high risk groups and there was zero reason for the ped to recommend it this year.  She is just blindly following CDC recommendations and when I explained that we didn't want it, she was quick to back off.

Kind of like Meningitis B.  The other Meningitis one (ACWY) makes sense for everyone, but the Men B doesn't necessarily need to be given universally to teens.

I wish our ped was willing to think about it more critically, but I understand that she is busy and it's safer for her to just go with CDC recommendations.  [/quote]

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