Florida to Become First State to Recommend Against COVID-19 Vaccines for Healthy Children

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Florida officials on March 7 said the state would be the first to formally recommend that healthy children shouldnโ€™t get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the stateโ€™s surgeon general, made the announcement during a roundtable discussion titled โ€œThe Curtain Close on COVID Theater.โ€

โ€œThe Florida Department of Health is going to be the first state [department] to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children,โ€ Ladapo said.

The planned update didnโ€™t appear to be on the departmentโ€™s website on March 7, and the agency declined to share more details. COVID-19 vaccines โ€œare the most effective tools to protect your health and prevent the spread of disease,โ€ a page on the site says, adding that the vaccines โ€œare safe, free, and highly effective, including against known variants.โ€

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declined to comment beyond pointing to its current recommendations, which say virtually all children aged 5 and older should get Pfizerโ€™s COVID-19 vaccine and that children aged 12 and older should get a booster shot because of waning vaccine effectiveness.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told a briefing in Washington that the policy was โ€œabsolutely notโ€ good and suggested it was a part of a pattern from some officials of โ€œcasting doubt on vaccinations.โ€

Pfizerโ€™s vaccine is the only shot available to people younger than 18 in the United States.

Shortly after Ladapoโ€™s announcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the event โ€œcrystalized a lot of things that weโ€™ve seen,โ€ including โ€œa failure to weigh costs and benefits, whether thatโ€™s lockdowns, whether thatโ€™s school closures, or whether thatโ€™s even something about whether a healthy 7-year-old kid should get the COVID vaccine.โ€

According to the CDC, just 663 of the 914,259 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the United States during the pandemic have been among those 18 or younger. In addition, few children who have contracted COVID-19 have required hospital care.

The event took place after three studies revived questions concerning vaccination for all children, a contentious topic during the pandemic.

Dr. Tracy Hoeg, an epidemiologist who worked onย a studyย comparing the risks and benefits, said during the event that the recent data was undermining the arguments for vaccinating children.

โ€œWe need to make sure that weโ€™re not doing an overall harm by vaccinating children when we donโ€™t know if thereโ€™s benefit. And we have this known safety signal, which we analyzed in our paper, which is myocarditis in boys, especially, more than girlsโ€”it also exists in girlsโ€”and young men,โ€ she said.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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