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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with PP, they may still change it. Easier to dial back.

I do hope people vaccinate children. It will help reduce the chance of circulating variants in the winter.[/quote]

[b]You understand the odds of a vaccine being approved for young children before winter is basically nil, right? Maybe older elementary kids. But there is virtually no way that ECE or 1st-2nd grade kids will be able to get a vaccine in 2021, and the odds for 2022 aren't even that great.[/b]

But if 80% of adults and older kids are vaccinated, it likely won't matter. Which is one of the reasons the vaccine is likely to be approved -- it will seem to unnecessarily risky to use a relatively new vaccine on small children against a virus that exists only in very small numbers, if at all, and poses a limited risk to them. This isn't polio. All the cost/benefits of Covid are reversed from what they were during the polio crisis.[/quote]

But how can this be the case if Pfizer is saying they will submit for an EUA for 5-11-year-olds in September?  Or do you mean that FDA will require full approval of the vaccine?  In that case I agree that kids under 12 will be waiting much longer.  [/quote]

The EUA may not be approved. It shouldn’t be, as there is no Covid emergency for kids.[/quote]

Sure, Jan. Just like we wouldn’t get a vaccine. Or it would take 13 years. Or blah blah blah. [/quote]

No, totally different kind of question. Although I'm afraid it is more likely for the EUA for young kids to be approved in the US due to political pressure than it was at the beginning of the pandemic that we would be so fortunate to get a vaccine that is 95% effective.[/quote]

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