Encourage child infections to boost adult immunity?
Posted: October 30th, 2021, 12:25 pm
I hasten to point out that my thread title is not my idea, but - incredibly - from the May 13th JCVI minutes about pros and cons of vaccinating children.
Here's the quote from the minutes.
Also, what is the actual argument about how this could even work? I genuinely can't see it, especially as the minutes also say
From the minutes, another argument against child vaccination is -
From media reports, I'd thought the JCVI were excluding all factors other than health risk/benefits to children, and that was why children weren't recommended to be vaccinated - but the minutes show they were considering other factors. [/quote]
The meeting was held in May, but the minutes were only released yesterday, after a long delay.
If you're interested, and to see full context of the above quote, minutes can be found in the link below, my extract is under point 26.
https://app.box.com/s/iddfb4ppwkmtjusir ... 8925577089
Here's the quote from the minutes.
This sounds an incredible idea to put forward - encouraging infection of children to protect adults.There is an argument for allowing the virus to circulate amongst children which could provide broader immunity to the children and boost immunity in adults
Also, what is the actual argument about how this could even work? I genuinely can't see it, especially as the minutes also say
So why not vice versa?vaccinating adults will lead to lower community transmission and lower risk of transmission to children
From the minutes, another argument against child vaccination is -
It's simply wrong to say that all adults will be vaccinated, because we know take-up will be well short of 100% of adults. All the other statements in the above quote have unsurprisingly (to me anyway) turned out to be wrong.All adults will be vaccinated and there is a low risk of child-to-child transmissions. Staff and parents will be protected.
From media reports, I'd thought the JCVI were excluding all factors other than health risk/benefits to children, and that was why children weren't recommended to be vaccinated - but the minutes show they were considering other factors. [/quote]
The meeting was held in May, but the minutes were only released yesterday, after a long delay.
If you're interested, and to see full context of the above quote, minutes can be found in the link below, my extract is under point 26.
https://app.box.com/s/iddfb4ppwkmtjusir ... 8925577089