"Logistically if they are gearing up for mass booster vacs in aug/sep for the 4 top groups, I'd imagine they would add kids to that, but I think they will try college and uni students first timing it for the mass movement. There's not enough research yet of the transmission viral infection load that secondary and primary kids have when they are infected to how much much of a infection risk they pose to adults maybe in 2022 revacs I suppose they might be added"
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Well if kids spread it so much, why did the rates keep going up earlier this year when the schools were closed. It's the same last year, the pubs spread it, close the pubs yet rates still went up.
We all think we know, but really there is data for any arguememnt.
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i thought they hadn’t completed testing in kids yet so as of now there is no current plan to vaccinate them as there is not yet an approved safe vaccine for them? |
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"i thought they hadn’t completed testing in kids yet so as of now there is no current plan to vaccinate them as there is not yet an approved safe vaccine for them? "
This is my understanding.
They're testing kids now. |
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"Well if kids spread it so much, why did the rates keep going up earlier this year when the schools were closed. It's the same last year, the pubs spread it, close the pubs yet rates still went up.
We all think we know, but really there is data for any arguememnt.
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Since schools returned this year the rates have actually slightly reduced and remained around the 5,300 daily mark even with an increase in testing. |
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"The Pfizer vaccine is only licensed for over 16s...the AstraZeneca is over 18s."
They have recently been doing juvenile testing, so presumably there is a plan to licence the products for kiddies too. |
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"The Pfizer vaccine is only licensed for over 16s...the AstraZeneca is over 18s.
They have recently been doing juvenile testing, so presumably there is a plan to licence the products for kiddies too."
The lowest age being studied is 12, I think. |
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"Im desperate to get my teenager jabbed. He has type 1 so at high risk if he does contract covid.
Even with his diabetes though he is way down the list"
Is he under 16?
If he's not he should be in group 6. |
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"The Pfizer vaccine is only licensed for over 16s...the AstraZeneca is over 18s.
They have recently been doing juvenile testing, so presumably there is a plan to licence the products for kiddies too.
The lowest age being studied is 12, I think."
Its 6 years old and over.
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"The Pfizer vaccine is only licensed for over 16s...the AstraZeneca is over 18s.
They have recently been doing juvenile testing, so presumably there is a plan to licence the products for kiddies too.
The lowest age being studied is 12, I think.
Its 6 years old and over.
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You're right for the Oxford one, yes. They seem to be the only group doing so right now, others intend to follow suit later.
From the BMJ:
Trials in children
Although these vaccinations were not part of a clinical trial, trials are currently under way to test the Pfizer, Moderna, and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines in children. Pfizer has enrolled more than 2000 children aged 12-15 for a trial that was announced in October. It also expects to run a second trial in children aged 5-11 years.2 Pfizer’s chief executive, Albert Bourla, told Reuters in March that he expected younger teens to be eligible for coronavirus vaccination in the autumn and primary school children by the end of the year.3
In December Moderna announced that it would be testing its vaccine in 3000 young people aged 12-17, half of whom would receive two shots of the vaccine four weeks apart, while the half would get a placebo.4
Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that high school students across the country should be able to get a vaccine in the autumn.5 The US has so far authorised the rollout of the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
The Oxford research group is also testing its vaccine in children aged 6-17, in a trial funded by the National Institute for Health Research and AstraZeneca. |
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The research trials were conducted on adult participants, which produced evidence upon the safety and efficacy of the vaccines upon adults. Government medicine licensing agencies then approved them for use typically for the same types of people - adults. Whilst pharmaceutical companies can undertake more research, it's understandable that they would have wanted to focus on prevent of older people, those who were particularly vulnerable to severe illness and death, in contrast with children. |
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"All children could be vaccinated by August according to new reports..."
Not by August, but vaccinations could start in August. The trials still need to be completed and those results aren’t due until June/July. |
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