UK Does Not Advise Vaccines For 5-11 Year Olds, While US Starts To Mandate Them

• UK Does Not Advise Vaccines For 5-11 Year Olds, While US Starts To Mandate Them
  by Vinay Prasad The Brownstone Institute, via https://www.zerohedge.com/
  It is always instructive to highlight differences in the vaccination policies between nations. After all, the clinical trials that guide these decisions are the same across nations.
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  Yet, different experts can view the same risk-benefit decisions differently, or view uncertainty differently. In my mind, there is clearly a problem if one nation advises AGAINST doing something while another location MANDATES it. I think we should all agree that this makes no sense. One should not deploy the brute force power of the mandate if a decision is sufficiently debatable that another nation literally advises against it.
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  This already happened with LA County’s mandate for two doses for teens 12-15. I detailed how LA’s school mandate was in tension with UK and Norway’s guidance with respect to number of doses and timing of doses in the US News and World Report.
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  Now, we see it again. The UK’s expert body JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) is moving forward with vaccinating 5 to 11 year olds with underlying health conditions, who are at risk, but not all healthy 5 to 11 year olds.
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  When it comes to healthy 5 to 11 year olds this is what JCVI is waiting for:
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