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Originally Posted by jfman
Not leading the decision making for who gets vaccinated when if their only role is to stall the process between the MHRA approving a safe and effective vaccine and being overruled by CMOs. Either the evidence base was incomplete or the analysis inadequate. Which is irrelevant.
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But there are views which their speciality is best considered.
Like, specifically in the argument about vaxxing teens and younger, where you may have to overcome views from parents such as "well my kid is healthy and isn't likely to get ill from covid/has already had it and I don't want to risk him getting a heart condition from a vaccine which isn't going to help him" and how you would manage to overcome that objection?
We know the vaccine is safe as it's been shoved into plenty of adults around the world. We know a child's body isn't massively different from an adult's, especially a teen's. But a child is at much less risk of being hospitalised or dying from covid which is what the vaccine primarily prevents.
It's not a question either which has a binary answer. Just because the vaccine is safe and effective to give to kids doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Should we vaccinate dogs to stop them spreading it to humans too?