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Comment by h3cate | Hacker News Reader

Why vaccinate children under 12? The only good reason I can see is if they have some sort of known health condition. Is there any other reasons why you would do this?

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The same reason to vaccinate everyone else: to minimize the opportunity for a more virulent strain to emerge - one against which current vaccines are ineffective.

I think you have that backwards:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/leaky-vaccines...

Selection pressures and non sterilizing vaccines are what causes more virulent strains to emerge.

But covid mutates and replicates in people whether they're vaccinated or not?

Why not vaccinate kids for every other endemic virus under the sun then?

We should if that virus kills people at a high rate like COVID!

Given the flu kills more kids than covid, we should probably require them to get that vaccine. Given more kids drown than die of covid, we should probably restrict their access to water. Given more kids die in fires, we should keep them out of structures made of wood. Given more die in auto accidents, they shouldn’t be allowed in cars.

> > We should if that virus kills people at a high rate like COVID!

> Given the flu kills more kids than covid

Emphasis mine.

When did adults become so afraid of kids? :D

... we do?

Given that viruses respond to evolutionary pressure such as vaccines, this seems like a strange position.

Vaccinating the ~50 million kids of the US would make a 1% dent in the ~5 billion unvaccinated worldwide.

That won’t really make much of a difference in new strains emerging.

https://fortune.com/2021/07/14/covid-vaccine-tracker-update-...

Lower risk of heart muscle infection.

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