The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) in UK has recently advised that COVID vaccines in 5-11-year-old children is non-essential. This has created an outrage among some healthcare professionals who believed a mandatory vaccination program for all ages would be more beneficial...
Thehealth secretaryhas deemed vaccinating 5- to 11-year-olds "non-urgent," which I think is wrong, as I have argued previously. Like many parents, I have witnessed atidal wave of COVIDin our schools in recent months, as the government has prioritizedschool attendancewhile removing most measu...
What does it mean that the vaccine had a less robust antibody response in kids 2 to 4 years old? I think we need to keep in mind that while antibody responses/levels are important, they are just one part of an impressive and complex immune response to vaccination. Though the antibody res...
Public perception of vaccines deteriorated over the summer of 2020. By mid-September 2020, Pew research showed trust in vaccines had dropped since polling from May of that year (Tyson et al.2020). As of September, 78% of respondents felt that the greater risk was moving too fast with vacc...
A 101-YEAR-OLD woman in Luohu District got her COVID-19 vaccine shot Saturday and did not exhibit any adverse effects after a medical examination two days later, Shenzhen Evening News reported yesterday. The community where the centenarian, Peng...
Moderna's pediatric shots will join a vaccination effort that has slowed to a near-standstill in children 5 years and older. In the more than seven months since the FDA and CDC firstsigned off onPfizer's shots for children down to age 5,more than a thirdof those ages 12 to 17 years ...
14 The systematic review and meta-analysis by Watanabe et al1 found that the incidence of myocarditis in children aged 5 to 11 years was about 1 in 500 000. Fortunately, myocarditis following vaccination is generally short-lived and self-resolving.14 Parents should be both compelled and ...
The country began its national vaccination program at the end of 2020 in phases divided into age groups that started with the elderly. For the upcoming phase, authorities estimate that 15.4 million children between the ages of 5 and 11 will be vaccinated. ...
Most cases of myopericarditis have occurred between 16-29 years; Rates of myopericarditis after vaccination are much lower in the 12-15 year age group in studies done in Israel and the U.S It is hypothesized that the lower dose used in children 5-11 is less likely to cause myocarditis ...
All Americans, including children as young as 6 months old who are eligible for the revised shots, are now being urged to get a dose ahead of thefall and winter virus season. "CDC is now recommending updated COVID-19 vaccination for everyone 6 months and older to better protect you and ...