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by divbzero 1441 days ago
> The urgency that prevailed in 2020 has evaporated.

I know parents of young children who are extremely disappointed that it took less than a year to trial and approve the first COVID-19 vaccine for adults, and then a full year and a half to trial and approve the first COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5.
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ars 1441 days ago
That's because it basically doesn't work for children. It's nothing to do with the speed of the trial, the vaccine just doesn't work in children.

Even the approved one that exists today barely does anything. There were a ton of attempts before that that simply straight out didn't work.

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puffoflogic 1441 days ago
What does this have to do with anything? The CDC said we need to take the vaccine. That's all you need to know. If you need to take it then obviously kids need to take it too.
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internet_user 1441 days ago
Why did UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) refuse to recommend universal vaccination to 12-15s on risk benefit basis? How did these internationally renowned vaccinologists and immunologists suddenly become antivaxxers overnight?

  Professor Andrew Pollard, Chair (University of Oxford)
  Professor Lim Wei Shen, Chair COVID-19 immunisation (Nottingham University Hospitals)
  Professor Anthony Harnden, Deputy Chair (University of Oxford)
  Dr Kevin Brown (Public Health England)
  Dr Rebecca Cordery (Public Health England)
  Dr Maggie Wearmouth (East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust)
  Professor Matt Keeling (University of Warwick)
  Alison Lawrence (lay member)
  Professor Robert Read (Southampton General Hospital)
  Professor Anthony Scott (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  Professor Adam Finn (University of Bristol)
  Dr Fiona van der Klis (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands)
  Professor Maarten Postma (University of Groningen)
  Professor Simon Kroll (Imperial College London)
  Dr Martin Williams (University Hospitals Bristol)
  Professor Jeremy Brown (University College London Hospitals)
https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/joint-committee-on-vacc... https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2180
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ars 1439 days ago
When I first read this reply I was 100% certain you were being sarcastic.

But seeing your further reply, you are serious? I'm really having a hard time believing that. You can't possibly be serious, can you?

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