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by mikysco 1307 days ago
The obvious explanation for other country's vaccine recommendations is based in data. COVID kills the elderly (75+) who are more likely to be battling multiple negative health conditions beyond COVID.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsoverti...

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No, those countries initially gave the Covid injections to all adults, then altered their recommendations to exclude some young adults, based on post-vaccine adverse events.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-pauses-use-mode...

> Finland on Thursday paused the use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for younger males due to reports of a rare cardiovascular side effect, joining Sweden and Denmark in limiting its use.

https://www.fox19.com/2021/10/07/some-european-countries-sus...

> All three countries based their decision on an unpublished study with Sweden’s Public Health Agency saying that it signals “an increased risk of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or the pericardium” — the double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots of the main vessels. It added: “The risk of being affected is very small.”

They haven't changed the advice for the initial 2 doses. They have given different advice for additional booster doses. Which, per there own guidance seems to be largely because people already have immunity (either through vaccination or infection), and younger populations are not considered to require additional immunity.

For example, from the second link above (Denmark):

> Why are people aged under 50 not to be re-vaccinated?

> The purpose of the vaccination programme is to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation and death. Therefore, people at the highest risk of becoming severely ill will be offered booster vaccination. The purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with covid-19, and people aged under 50 are therefore currently not being offered booster vaccination.

> People aged under 50 are generally not at particularly higher risk of becoming severely ill from covid-19. In addition, younger people aged under 50 are well protected against becoming severely ill from covid-19, as a very large number of them have already been vaccinated and have previously been infected with covid-19, and there is consequently good immunity among this part of the population.

In the Netherlands the Moderna vaccine is not used for younger groups. I think the cutoff is 40.

Anyone over 12 can get vaccinated and get a booster, but it will be the Pfizer vaccine.

Note that Moderna's booster volume of antigen was reduced by 50% compared to the original vaccine, while Pfizer's booster volume was unchanged from the original vaccine, https://www.modernatx.com/covid19vaccine-eua/providers/dosin...
Moderna doesn't have volume of antigen at all, the dose is of mRNA contained in liquid nano particles.

Moderna did reduce its dose for the booster, but its original dose was also 3x that of Pfizer.

Any idea what motivated the reduction in Moderna dosage?
> The obvious explanation for other country's vaccine recommendations is based in data. COVID kills the elderly (75+) who are more likely to be battling multiple negative health conditions beyond COVID.

That something so obvious was enough to get you labeled a conspiracy theorist and banned off all major social media for close to two years has set back trust in science by decades.

The assumption that this isn't accounted for in basic analysis is pretty far-fetched.
Assuming that the people in charge are able to do basic analysis is pretty far fetched.