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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think some of you misunderstand how vaccines are used as a public health tool. They are supposed to drive down community transition , not ensure that each and every individual is protected from a disease. And they are doing a great job. As pp’s have noted, community transmission is almost nil in parts of our region. Any further rules and measures should be driven by community transmission rates.[/quote]
In less than a month, there will be no rational, logical reason to keep any remaining measures in place.[b] By the time school starts in the fall, there won't even be a need to require kids to be vaccinated.[/b] [/quote]

Exactly.  Many doubt that the vaccine will ever be approved for little kids because the risk of vaccinating kids may quickly become greater than any risk they have from Covid.
 
Let's say the risk of them dying from Covid becomes 1:2,000,000.  The risk of them dying from Covid vaccination could be 1:1,000,000.  The FDA is not going to approve this. 
It will be interesting to see what happens.   [/quote]

What medical professionals doubt the vaccine will be approved? [/quote]

I work in vaccine research and many of us doubt that it will end up being approved because the risk-benefit analysis may never support it if there is no longer much Covid in the community.

To date, only 159 kids have died from Covid.  That is with Covid circulating at incredibly high levels in the community.  If you start vaccinating kids en masse, you are going to have a few deaths from weird stuff that crops up from 
the vaccine (weird stuff happens if you give ANY drug to a large enough population).   Why would we potentially harm a few kids to "save" the others from will very soon be an infinitesimally low risk to children (as the virus level continue to fall)
That is what the FDA will have to figure out and what makes this a very complex issue.

I am a pro-vaccine as a human can get but I'm not to going vaccinate my kid from a benign condition.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/19/health-202-coronavirus-vaccines-adults-teens-are-obvious-not-so-younger-kids/[/quote]
This is an interesting point. Vaccine side effects are very low, but if covid is less dangerous to kids, statistically, than the side effects from the vaccine, how would you justify giving the vaccine to kids?

I wonder if there's any other disease/vaccine combo out there that falls into this category? [/quote]

I’m afraid that in this current environment of Covid hysteria they can justify anything.[/quote]

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