Children under 12 months old should be vaccinated against COVID-19

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

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It's MoPH's choice to post most of their info intended for general public consumption on Facebook. So it's not Facebook's content there, but the Thai MoPH's.

 

The data and numbers are the same, via either source, since they're coming direct from and being posted by Thai MoPH.

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

 

[onthedarkside]

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Final reminder. The topic here is:

Children under 12 months old should be vaccinated against COVID-19

along with the article content

 

Any further posts outside of this will be removed and possible warnings issued

 

 

[anrcaccount]

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

He appears to be saying in the above comment that infants under age 1 have the highest per capita COVID infection rate of any age group in Thailand. That's a pretty significant "basis."

You're missing the point.

 

They may have the highest infection rate ( could just be due to paranoid parents testing more too) but are at extremely low risk of any harm. Almost all recent hospitalisations and deaths are in over 60s per your posted stats.

 

The vaccine does very little to prevent transmission with how infectious Omicron is. 

 

Therefore encouraging infant vaccination is a poor public health strategy, hence why nowhere else is the world is actively encouraging it, and has these type of articles on the mainstream front page news. 

 

I'll say it again, 100 extra over 60s vaccinated will provide more benefit than 100,000 infants. 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccines Authorized for Children 6 Months and Older

 

June 15, 2022

 

"While members of the [U.S.] FDA committee widely felt that parents should be able to vaccinate their young children against COVID-19, some argued it’s important to keep the disease’s relatively modest effects on kids in perspective.

 

In response, Dr. Arthur Reingold, head of epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health, noted that kids are routinely vaccinated against diseases that carry low risks of hospitalization and death—and COVID-19 should be no different."

 

https://time.com/6187674/covid-19-vaccines-kids-under-five-fda/

 

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"Regulators also emphasized that even though young children are generally at low risk for serious illness from the virus, vaccinating the group would save lives.

 

“We have to be careful that we don’t become numb to the number of pediatric deaths because of the overwhelming number of older deaths here,” Dr. Peter Marks, the F.D.A.’s top vaccine regulator, said. “The intervention we’re talking about here is one that is something that we have accepted in the past to try to prevent deaths from influenza,” he added.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/us/politics/covid-vaccines-fda-children.html

 

[onthedarkside]

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[MrJ2U]

Another reason to get vaccinated.

 

(Never mind the conspiracy theory anti-vaxer people, lost cause).

 

"1 in 6 Unvaccinated People Struggle With Symptoms 2 Years After Getting COVID"

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-06-02/1-in-6-unvaccinated-people-struggle-with-symptoms-2-years-after-getting-covid

[dinsdale]

Are the millions of under 12 month olds on this planet at risk of dying from covid? Should they all be vaccinated? Two easy Yes/No questions.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The Thai MoPH's position here on COVID vaccinations for infants is a recommendation to parents -- not any kind of government mandate.

 

Parents can decide if they want to follow the Thai MoPH's advice, or follow the advice of some posters here who have no professional expertise in public health or the medical aspects of vaccinations, but still want to play COVID Russian Roulette with the lives of youngsters.

 

Per the U.S. CDC:

 

 

"Among 397 children hospitalized during the Omicron-predominant period, 87% were unvaccinated, 30% had no underlying medical conditions, and 19% were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). The cumulative hospitalization rate during the Omicron-predominant period was 2.1 times as high among unvaccinated children (19.1 per 100,000 population) as among vaccinated^¶ children (9.2)."

 

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7116e1.htm?s_cid=mm7116e1_w

 

[dinsdale]

13 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The Thai MoPH's position here on COVID vaccinations for infants is a recommendation to parents -- not any kind of government mandate.

 

Parents can decide if they want to follow the Thai MoPH's advice, or follow the advice of some posters here who have no professional expertise in public health, but still want to play COVID Russian Roulette with the lives of youngsters.

 

 

 

I'm a parent and I decide not to follow the Thai MoPH's advice. This is my right and I find it very disrespectful that you imply I'm playing Russian Roulette with my kids life. Some would argue that getting the jab is in and of itself playing Russian Roulette with my kid's health.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

All the major health entities agree that COVID vaccinations for children are safe and effective, with any side effects rare and typically mild to moderate and short-term.

 

COVID certainly is not safe...when it comes to children, even if the risks overall are low at the population level.

 

 

[onthedarkside]

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