I tend to agree with this..at least in the near term. I know they are doing trials on 6 month olds, but I'm going to pass on this for my 3 year old whenever it gets EU approved.
Yes because some will just read the headline or 1st tweet and use it to justify their hesitation in general, unfortunately. There is no nuance any more. Dumbest time to be alive
"Due to the unique treatment required for the extremely rare side effect found in 6 cases, this has not been fully communicated to healthcare providers, and thus we are temporary halting the JJ vaccine until this treatment can be more thoroughly explained" would have been better messaging.
"Until that process is complete, we are recommending this pause. This is important to ensure that the health care provider community is aware of the potential for these adverse events and can plan due to the unique treatment required with this type of blood clot."
It's a temporary pause until the treatment needed is understood by providers.
MASS's numbers just came out. They really do seem like they have plateaued regarding cases, hospitalizations. And deaths keep declining.
Record number of vaccinations in Mass today: 112,933 - 1st time over 100K.
The cases are rising among the 0-29 demos, they represent nearly 45% of the cases in MA now. A vast majority of that age group is unvaccinated, so it's not entirely unexpected given the variants increased transmissibility
That anti vaxxer stance makes no sense either..unless tons of people who were recently vaccinated are getting sick as well. We just simply aren't there yet. I'm guessing we'll need to be above 50% vaccinations to start seeing notable declines
Right but those conditions might be the best way to test how well a vaccine is working..in a relatively controlled environment. The wildcard is obviously the amount of variants present there. If the SA and P1/P2 variants aren't prevalent there, it may be moot.
Look at Israel. They are ahead of us by over a month and a half, so we are on the same trajectory. They had similar spikes at during the early stages of vaccination - but look to have mostly squashed it. Now if they start having cases increase again, that would be a big red flag