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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is the @CDCgov group that develops vaccine recommendations for children and adults. I've already submitted a comment — see my other 🧵 below — but I wanted to examine their perspective on our push to @ImmunizeUnder5s.
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"What Does ACIP Consider in the Vaccine Recommendation Process" asks cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/…, and the first answer is "The safety and effectiveness of the vaccine when given at specific ages." Makes sense. Let's dig into that. Safety first!
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Only @pfizer and @moderna_tx have the latest data, and we're eager to see it in the EUA, but we have lots of evidence already. "We now have data related to 37 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine given to children between 5 and 17 years old."
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I am a parent of two children under five. I have studied the science. I have examined study after study. And while there will be more studies and more science to come, the conclusion seems inescapable, as inconvenient as it may be ...
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Covid has the potential to severely harm adults and children alike. It is unconscionable and unethical to withhold from parents and pediatricians the only form of protection remaining to them as mask mandates end and the world ceases to concern itself with avoiding the virus.
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It is true: many will be fine after their first infection, but some will not. Some will be hospitalized. Some will die. Some will develop the bewildering and sometimes debilitating symptoms we have come to know as long Covid, for which we have no cure.
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