Right now our president Joe Biden is trying to get COVID-19 shots FDA approved for the age range of 5-11 year olds. My question is why are vaccines pushed so hard right now, and why are children just now being approved for the vaccine. If the vaccine was safe, unharmful and thoroughly tested then it should be safe for everyone at the same time.
In the article from the daily wire it talks about how very few children have died of covid. If you look at the people who have died from covid, they are the older adults, and those with underlying health conditions. The daily wire also states “Since January 2020, fewer than 450 children between the ages of 5 and 18 have died of COVID-19”. To put this in perspective 325 deaths were reported in the 18 and under age from the flu during the 2018-2019 flu season. The data taken from 45 states said that between 0 and 0.03% of infected children died. The article goes on to say how the virus may have long term effects on the children. My opposing argument is that the COVID-19 “shot”, technically not a vaccine, has not been long term tested. The FDA from the start fast tracked “shots” into effective use and millions of Americans ran towards it. For an official vaccine to come out it typically takes 5-10 years. The covid vaccine came out in 5-10 months. If that doesn’t tell you how much testing they probably did, then I don’t know what will.
I personally would not have my children vaccinated because of the lack of research. I’ve heard about people getting seriously ill or dying from getting the vaccine. Do we really know what we are putting into our bodies? Is the U.S. government looking out for your health or the pharmaceuticals pockets?
Would you let your kids get the vaccine/shot, why or why not?
Do you think the FDA and CDC did enough testing before opening the vaccine up to the public?
https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/12/vaccine-manufacturing-q-and-a/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-prepares-for-covid-19-shots-for-5-11-year-olds
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Good topic choic and great job overall Emily!
I do not think that the covid vaccine should be mandated because I think that if you want to get it you should be able to but you should never be forced to get the vaccine. I think that most childeren are not at risk anyways so it is a choice that is up to them I think.
I think that it is okay for vaccines to be allowed for young children, but not mandated. Most children aren't at risk of suffering severe symptoms from the coronavirus, but some may have underlying health conditions where a vaccine could save their life. I think more testing should be done on the vaccines seen as how quickly they were created and distributed.
I sort of disagree. I think that there should be more testing before allowing the vaccine to be allowed in younger children.
I personally would not let my child get the covid vaccine because, as you stated there is not much research on this vaccine, and as you said, the typical vaccine normally takes 5-10 years to come out, whereas the covid vaccine took 5-10 months to come out. This just shows me that how vague and lazy they were about the vaccine and it just seems like the people making the vaccine didn't take the time that should for the vaccine to come out especially since covid is so new.
I agree, sometimes when they rush vaccines like this they often are looking at the money aspect as well.
I personally would not let my child get the vaccine because, as you said, they haven't even been testing this vaccine very much. Also you said that usual vaccines take 5-10 years and this one only took 5-10 months which just shows how unclear they are about this. With the rates of children dying from covid I do not think they should get it.
I agree, I think at this point there just isn't enough information to go off of.
no cause it didnt take that long for them to make it and we dont know how it can affect you in the future. yes and no for now its ok for some people but what about over time.
I agree, I also know that covid mutates all the time, so what if it mutates and the vaccine does nothing against the new strand.
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