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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will not take it, and I will not allow my son to take it. On his 18th birthday, he is free to do whatever he wants to do. [/quote]

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DP.  My 21yo son could get boosted if he chose, but I recommended to him not to based on studies in multiple other countries showing young men should not be getting it and recommending they don't.  Still, it is up to him. Other countries are so much more on top of the statistical data and publish it sooner than the U.S. agencies, which almost always eventually end up following suit but are bringing up the rear on just about all things virus related.  There are multiple sources for this info, but this WSJ opinion piece sums it up pretty succinctly:

"The U.S. government is pushing Covid-19 vaccine boosters for 16- and 17-year-olds without supporting clinical data. A large Israeli population study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month, found that the risk of Covid death in people under 30 with two vaccine shots was zero.

Booster mandates for healthy young people, which some colleges are imposing, will cause medical harm for the sake of transient reductions in mild and asymptomatic infections. In a study of 438,511 males 16 to 24, 56 developed myocarditis after their second Pfizer dose (or 1 in 7,830, at least seven times the usual rate). True, most cases were mild, but in the broader group of 136 people (including older and female patients) who developed myocarditis after the vaccine, seven had a “complicated course,” and one 22-year-old died. Moderna’s vaccine carries an even higher rate of heart complications, which is why some European countries have restricted it for people under 30. But in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indiscriminately push for boosters for all young people."

There are multiple studies available on searching stating that healthy, vaxed children and young adults are at greater risk from getting the booster than getting any complications from COVID.  [/quote]

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