FDA Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccines for Children Down to 6 Months of Age

[mc32]

Interesting to see this. Some European countries are beginning to question the need to vaccinate young children given the statistical characteristics.

[rasz]

How many 6 month old children died of Covid?

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...

0-4 years 442 out of 20 million. Lets vaccinate them all because there is 0.00221% chance of death. Btw a chance to be electrocuted by lightning are 0.006536%

[moaf]

My biggest concern for children is the potential for long covid. New studies suggest a possible correlation between severe infection and long covid (https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00072-1). If the vaccine can reduce the likelihood of a severe infection, thus reducing the likelihood of long covid, then I'll take my chances and vaccinate my kids. Long covid aside, I'd still vaccinate my children if it could potentially reduce the severity of an infection. I'm not worried about my kids dying from the seasonal flu, but we still vaccinate them to prevent a severe infection.

[sn0w_crash]

Why did they wait so long? This is a great way for the pharma giants to generate revenue. Monetizing the 6 month old demographic will really push those profit margins.

[jokethrowaway]

It's better to be slow and gradual and capture the majority of the market rather than jump at people immediately with "vaccinate your 6 months old or your grandma dies"