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Originally Posted by Chris

No.

This age group should be vaccinated, but based on population-level data, not individual stories, no matter how tragic they are. The girl here died of myocarditis, which is the same potential complication you get from giving people in this age group the vaccine. If you allow yourself to set policy based on how stories like these affect you emotionally you risk doing more harm than good.

I think you are relying on a now withdrawn report on myocarditis and the vaccine.

Israel seems to show otherwise.

...In addition, only twelve children between the ages of 12 and 15 contracted a disease that causes inflammation of the heart muscle after receiving the vaccine, a minuscule number compared to that of children in that age group who were immunized. According to Health Ministry data, 331,538 children aged 12-15 received one dose of the vaccine, and 255,444 received two doses.

According to the ministry, one child contracted myocarditis, a relatively rare disease, after the first jab of the vaccine, while the other 11 were diagnosed after the second dose. All 12 – 11 boys and one girl – became ill three to five days after being vaccinated, and all have fully recovered.

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