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Another aspect is that "science" is never a settled-and-done, I-told-you-so sort of matter. It's a process of hopefully disinterested individuals making discoveries and comparing results.

For example, FTE: "America is an outlier regarding its vaccine policy for young people. Numerous other countries have taken a far more conservative approach. The UK allows a third dose only for 12 to 15-year-olds who have serious medical conditions that put them at high risk or who live with a vulnerable person. Finland has a similar policy for 12 to 17-year-olds. In Ireland no one under 16 can receive a booster. Denmark, Sweden, Japan, and Spain, are among the countries that have approved boosters for adults only. Some countries don’t recommend Covid vaccines for healthy children at all, or just one dose. Norway’s Institute of Public Health, for example, states: “12-15-year-olds already have high protection against a severe disease course after the first vaccine dose.”

Maybe researchers in those countries know something that we don't. Maybe we should risk being a little more conservative when we're talking about giving our children shots which may do more harm than good. If that's a "talking point of the right", and makes you think that I vote Republican or supported Donald Trump, I'm sorry, but that's simply not the case.



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