Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
Vaccinating the Littles
Why Vaccines for Ages 0–5 Were Unanimously Approved
So what about the kids?
Little kid vaccines (under 5) got approved last week, and all of my doctor friends with wee ones are haunting the telephone lines and internet trying to find appointments for their kids as quickly as possible.
As was true with the adult and older kid vaccines, the trials and the presentations last week to the FDA/CDC were designed to answer the same old same old questions:
a) Do we need the vaccine?
b) Are the vaccines safe in the short- and long-term?
c) Do they prevent infection and/or serious disease?
Question one: Do little kids need to be vaccinated?
You may have noticed it took a really long time to get the data from the kid clinical trials. That’s because vaccine drug companies preferentially ran trials on adults and then younger and younger kids, which made sense since this is without question a more serious disease for older people.
Still, Covid has affected, hurt, and killed a real number of kids: 45,000 kids have ended up in hospitals, a third of those in ICUs, over 400 kids have died, almost 9,000 kids have gotten MIS-C, and…
