Thread by @DrEricDing

Mark your calendar for September! The #COVID19 vaccines may be available in the fall for U.S. children as young as 6 months. Pfizer and Moderna are testing their vaccines in children <12 years—results expected in hand for children aged 5-11 by September.🤞🏼
nytimes.com/2021/06/08/hea…

2) But nearly four million children in the United States have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

3) Doctors continue to see rare cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a condition linked to Covid-19 that can affect multiple organs.

Vaccinating children should further contribute to containment of the virus by decreasing its spread in communities.

4) Pfizer announced on Tuesday that it was moving to test its vaccine in children aged 5 through 12 years. It will begin testing the vaccine in infants as young as six months in the next few weeks.

5) Do kids need vaccines? Yes. Because kids do transmit, they do get hospitalized, and they do suffer from #LongCovidKids. Fauci comments here on kids…

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1401863233288474630

6) Keep in mind 1% of infected kids get hospitalized. Is that “no risk” or “acceptable risk” for a child? No.

https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1401860709538013186

7) We definitely need the vaccines in the face of the more contagious and more severe #B16172 #DeltaVariant. Look how it’s infecting kids especially in the UK currently.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1402056092713168897

8) one word: schools.

➡️ The latest England data on its #DeltaVariant surge.

This is why we must vaccinate kids.

9) we need to recognize the blind spots of many scientists last year who didn’t recognize pediatric transmission and thought kids were immune. That was very short sighted, and almost as bad an ignoring airborne transmission…. Let’s not repeat that. Kids transmit damnit.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1402058940788228104