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Originally Posted by Chris
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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.
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Or even better, cherry pick data to make decisions based on vaccine supply and not public health at all, while working with active spreaders of disinformation (UsForThem for example) to muddy the waters.
And get Nick Triggle at the BBC to put out PR on your behalf.
The evidence on vaccination for teenagers is clear with millions of doses administered worldwide. What we don’t have is enough vaccines for that and the booster programme until supplies improve.
Which is why JCVI delayed making a decision despite MHRA describing the vaccine as safe and effective months ago. However none of that suits the narrative that you must now cling to as Government has no choice but to decide mass infection of children is good.