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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll take a booster every 6 months for life if it means no lock downs or school closures. Not ready for that bs again. [/quote]

This. Can we normalize this?

And while we're at it vaccinate the kids? Demand the FDA work more than the pathetic 10-4 slow roll they've been at, while simultaneously pushing low-dose ineffectiveness? please and thanks.

Boost 2x a year and move on please and thanks[/quote]

The problem here is that you assume the FDA hasn't approved the under 5 vaccine, or issued full approval for the 5-11 vaccine, because they are simply not working hard enough. You are ignoring the fact that there are a number of people on the FDA approval panels who have concerns about vaccines for kids who are low risk. Especially when the vaccines for high risk older people are so effective, so there is less of an imperative to vaccinate kids to protect adults -- adults can protect themselves, and Covid can infect the vaccinated, so vaccinating kids doesn't stop spread.

You are assuming you understand the science here but when actual doctors and scientists at the FDA raise questions, you dismiss it as them being lazy.

I agree with you on no lock downs and school closures. I just don't think we need a vaccine mandate for kids to get there. As an adult, I'm happy to vaccinate/boost however often they think makes sense from a public health standpoint.[/quote]

This is mostly true.  The main reason there is no authorized vaccine for kids under 5 is that the Pfizer vaccine trial failed.

However, the FDA isn't completely free of blame.  It looks like the FDA had something to do with the decision to drop <5 year old dose to 3mcg, despite the warning signs that it might not be enough from the 10mcg dosage study-- a decision that ultimately led to the trial's failure.  And the FDA certainly delayed the phase 2/3 study in kids by going back to Pfizer after the trial began to tell them to double the number of participants.

It has finally started to change, but far too long the federal health agencies were treating pediatric vaccinations as critical to resuming more normal activities for the purposes of creating guidance, while also deeming it low criticality for the purposes of vaccine trials.[/quote]

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