Thread by @tmprowell

FDA has extended emergency auth of Novavax #vaccine to age 12-17y. Given as 2 doses 3w apart, it was 78% effective in preventing confirmed symptomatic #COVID19 7d after dose 2. It is a protein-based vaccine like many familiar vaccines in use for decades, e.g. tetanus. #MedTwitter

Those under 18 are much less likely to be fully #vaccinated against #COVID19 than adults in the US, even though we now have vaccines authorized & recommended for kids as young as 6 mos. We'll see fewer kids missing school this fall/winter the more we #GetVaccinated now.

When I am trying to decide about something outside of #MedTwitter, I ask what professionals in that field do themselves. In case that approach is helpful to you, here's a poll.

Doctors: did you get your eligible kids #vaccinated against #COVID19?

Note most votes are for "see results." I mention it for 2 reasons: 1) if you tweet a poll targeted at 1 group, others will vote randomly to see results, messing up your poll, so include this option & 2) percentages need to be adjusted at end of poll to reflect true denominator.