The Public Health Ministry will, in May, start administering booster shots of Pfizer vaccine to students aged 12-17 who received their second dose 4-6 months prior. The move is to boost their immunity before the opening of the new school semester, said Disease Control Department Director-General Dr. Opart Karnkawinpong yesterday (Sunday).

 

The mass vaccination program, a joint operation between the Public Health and Education ministries, will be launched simultaneously in schools across the country.

 

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Non-formal education or home school students in that age group, and students who have underlying diseases, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, chronic kidney disease, cancer, immune deficiency, diabetes or have genetic diseases, such as Down syndrome or severe neurological conditions, will receive their booster jabs at hospitals or other medical facilities.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/mass-vaccine-booster-shots-for-students-aged-12-17-in-thailand-in-may/

 

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Kids go back to school early May so if they really wanted to boost their immunity before return 2nd shots would already have been administered.

Waste of time concentrating efforts on a group of people who are wholly unaffected by covid, even more so as they have already had 2 shots.

 

They should be making better efforts to tackle the reasons why the old and vulnerable have not yet had a booster, the group who make up the largest amount of deaths and serious hospitalisations.

Calling schoolkids students, next thing you know they'll be applying for loans.

one of the lowest risk groups, for a virus that only a minority will have serious problems with anyway.    so have this generation now got to have a injection every 6 months or they wont get an education? total madness.  

Edited April 18, 20224 yr by paulikens

15 hours ago, paulikens said:

one of the lowest risk groups, for a virus that only a minority will have serious problems with anyway.    so have this generation now got to have a injection every 6 months or they wont get an education? total madness.  

I think you are building a strawman.