Pfizer Gets Teen Vaccine Approval.

Instead of waiting for an answer, why not actively search for an answer? Nobody I know of on here is an epidemiologist anyway.

This popped up on the the CDC website and Washington Post this month.

"COVID-19 adolescent hospitalization rates from COVID-NET peaked at 2.1 per 100,000 in early January 2021, declined to 0.6 in mid-March, and rose to 1.3 in April. Among hospitalized adolescents, nearly one third required intensive care unit admission, and 5% required invasive mechanical ventilation; no associated deaths occurred."

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7023e1.htm

"Citing increased hospitalization rates of teenagers with covid-19 in March and April, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky urged parents to vaccinate their teens to protect them from an illness that can be severe even among young people.

“I am deeply concerned by the numbers of hospitalized adolescents and saddened to see the numbers of adolescents who required treatment in intensive care units or mechanical ventilation,” Walensky said in a statement that was released Friday alongside a new study looking at trends in hospitalization among adolescents with the disease.

“Much of this suffering can be prevented,” Walensky added, urging “parents, relatives and close friends to join me and talk with teens” about the importance of prevention strategies and to encourage vaccination.

The study showed that nearly one-third of those teenagers hospitalized with covid-19 during a surge of cases early this year required intensive care, and 5 percent required mechanical ventilation."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06/04...ng-hospitalizations/

It appears to me that the mortality rate is not the most important factor in this age group.

I could be wrong. I have been before and will be again.

ramage wrote: More importantly, why subject children to a vaccination for a disease that has a 0.04% mortality rate according to the CDC?

Still waiting for an answer to the above question.

Have to agree with Wayne on this one, just because you don't wind up dead, doesn't mean our teens are automatically safe. Lots of Polio patients didn't die, but spent their lives in iron lungs or needing assistance to walk like FDR.

Have you seen the latest numbers out of India? It really looks like people in their 20's are getting hit much harder by their variant than the variants we saw earlier.

You don't need to be an epidemiologist to answer this question.
Wayne, you stated that your daughter is an OB-GYN resident. I would be interested to know if she actively recommends receiving the modified m-RNA medicine to her adolescent pregnant patients who are asymptomatic.

Fred, unlike the polio virus the Wuhan virus does not selectively attack anterior horn cells (motor control).
I know of no medical literature that posits infection with the Wuhan virus will leave a patient ventilator dependent for the rest of his life.

Why do you continually conflate an attenuated or dead virus with a manipulated RNA.


The fact is that we still vaccinate kids for tetanus, diptheria, pertussis, whooping cough, and many other infectious diseases despite the fact that the overall mortality rate from those is significantly lower than from COVID-19.

Why doesn't the FDA give full unconditional approval for the Moderna and Pfizer medications? Is it because they like many others, including myself, don't know the answers to your questions below.

Because it's the wrong question to ask, especially without providing any evidence to previously asked questions on how an mRNA vaccine would, following known observations for the physical, biochemical, and genetic actions of mRNA in vivo, possibly cause long-term effects.

You choose to call the m-RNA medication a vaccine. "an mRNA vaccine " I adhere to the following definition:
vaccine [vak-sēn´]
a suspension of attenuated or killed microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, or rickettsiae), administered for prevention, amelioration, or treatment of infectious diseases.

If you choose to redefine vaccine, so be it. As I point out some time ago, that is Humpty Dumpty reasoning "Words mean what I say they mean" paraphrasing Lewis Carroll.

Looks like both Moderna and Pfizer will be approved soon for use in younger children. Great news.

And please explain this to me like I am a 3rd grader. With the mRNA, you are adding code to fight a virus to the body. Will that code remain forever so we won't need a booster shot? Or is the booster shot designed to handle different variants?

And will this eventually lead to a cure for the common cold?