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Originally Posted by jfman
The evidence that the JCVI themselves ignored.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ourable-models
As I say if this was all above board the minutes, evidence and justification would have been published ahead of schools going back.
You enjoy the soup of British exceptionalism all you wish Old Boy, however there’s no real reason after so many deaths that our world leading behavioural scientists and sociologists are any better than those elsewhere in the world. They couldn’t even convince the 4 CMOs in the UK and devolved administrations.
In practice the vaccination of children is inevitable. The question is why we are dragging our feet against the evidence? |
I agree with you on this and see the inevitability that we will eventually end up vaccinating children over 5 like the US are starting and maybe even younger as they do more trials.
Definitely more so if we do get more effective vaccines against transmission and milder infection but then you'd see that would probably need to be rolled out to everyone then.
As I understand the reason why the JCVI etc are a bit tetchy about it is simply a question of benefit/risk management. It is still logically true that kids who get covid in the majority do not get ill enough to be hospitalised and do not get ill enough to die. So whilst there will be some reduced transmission effect from doing so, a vaccine which is highly effective at reducing these, is a group which is not susceptible to it anyway, is being administered with less tangible benefit other than a more marginal effect on transmission. Where I would disagree with them is that this effect is still helpful.
The other issue is the risk from side effects of the vaccine, and how the chance of these stacks up against the chance of getting ill from covid. You could indeed argue that if the chance of side effects which need hospitalisation from the vaccine is higher than the chance of covid infection causing the same that the vaccine is not worth it. But then, side effects from a vaccine aren't infectious.