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by peteradio 1440 days ago
Pray tell what evidence we have that this is a live saving pharmaceutical when applied to young healthy children.
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A vaccine is a public health measure aimed at reducing disease spread through the population.

If you want kids to go to preschools, and not be little disease vectors transmitting infection between households, you should be looking for ways to avoid them acquiring the infection even if the disease has no ill effects on them personally.

Having their parents or grandparents hospitalized are also negative outcomes for a child.