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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The risk analysis for vaccines has always been "is the risk of side effects from this vaccine smaller than the risk of severe illness from the disease". That's it. For many of the childhood vaccines that all our kids get it is a no brainer that the vaccine is less risky. For the covid vaccines, for adults it is a no brainer to get the vax. For the mRNA vax for boys, it is actually debatable.[/quote]

1) Myocarditis cases are mild and resolve themselves.

2) It is debatable in the UK and other European countries. Not so here.

The reason why is because community spread is significantly higher here than there. The risk of severe illness is significantly higher here in the US, therefore this isn’t much of a debate. 1:100 hospitalization risk with community spread varying across the country from moderate to very high is a higher risk than the 1:50,000 myocarditis risk.[/quote]

those numbers are not accurate for boys 12-18. and we won’t even know the numbers for boy 5-11 for quite a while. and we also don’t know the long-term impact of “mild” mRNA vaccine induced myocarditis. [/quote]

Not to mention that

1) that hospitalization number does not reflect the risk for severe illness
2) community spread will go down to European levels here soon enough as the delta wave has crested (could of course rise again, but so it could in Europe)

So yes, it is debatable here as well. The one lasting difference between the US and Europe is the higher number of at risk children here due to obesity and poor health. But this doesn’t change the individual risk-benefit calculus for healthy kids. There is no question that higher risk children should get the vaccine. Whether everyone should be forced to get vaccinated to protect those kids if their parents won’t get them their shot is an ethical and not a scientific question.

I will vaccinate my low risk kids. But I question the ethics of a mandate under EUA, and I would like to see an honest discussion about the topic of Covid vaccines for young children instead of the political pressure campaign that is currently going on, against which European experts are explicitly speaking out.[/quote]

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