Pfizer’s 12-15 has been fully-enrolled for weeks. Moderna’s 12-17 is fully-enrolled as of today.
Here's the funny thing I've noticed. This website has a collection of posters whose opinions on all matters COVID are more informed and in-line with the evolving science consensus than Medscape. The comments section of Medscape is supposed to be open only to medical professionals, but because there's essentially no moderation and anyone can claim to be a "doctor", you get comments from hard-core antivaxxers, conspiracy theorists of all sorts, herbalists, naturopaths, people with purely political or economic agendas etc. A real hot garbage dump. I think most real licensed professionals have given up policing the comments section, and just read the articles.
Even less. The JC Penny closed, leaving only Ocean State Job Lots (which surprisingly, is a great source of packaged European food brands), a discount shoe store, a gym, an auto supply store and a branch of the DMV. And now, about 200 doses of vaccines given per day. Too bad there's virtually nothing else left in the building for people to do.
I’d be happy to vaccinate my 10 (soon 11) year old. We’d enroll him in a trial, but they seem to be clustered (rightfully so) near major children’s centers (Seattle, Cincinnati, Columbus, etc).
You could go get a shoulder workout and hope to alleviate the site pain after your shot(s)!
Because, kids aren’t simply little adults. Their bodies are different and respond in different ways, the further from puberty you go the stranger they get. So you start with studying kids going through puberty and make sure weird side effects not experienced in adults don’t occur. If they do, odds are they will be more severe in younger kids so you stop. If they don’t, you test middle schoolers next and do the same thing, then elementary age, then the tots and infants.
I had read somewhere that the approach for 5-11 year olds may not be a traditional clinical trial with a placebo group. If the 12-16 trial for Pfizer shows a high level of efficacy even in younger kids they may assume efficacy will be good enough (especially since the risk to children seems to be lower) and focus a trial solely on safety. Makes sure the side effects are not too intense. This cuts down on the time needed since you don’t need to wait for placebo group infections. I assume it would still take 2 months to watch safety plus however long it takes to enroll. They also won’t do 30,000 kids. It will likely be 2 to 5 thousand so could be enrolled in a few months and done in 2 more. It’s conceivable that I’d they started right now the trial could be done by end of June or July if they did it that way. Not saying it will happen, but the original goal was to have all school aged kids vaccinated by the start of the next school year. That’s August down South.
...I can think of a few names to sub in there.
Down here it is in the parking garage (dead mall) but moving to the football stadium Monday. They will set up testing in the garage. Oh did I mention the football stadium? Yeah it is where the Buccaneers became the superbowl 55 champions! Yeah that one
The closest juvenile trial is almost a 2hr drive from me. Missing work for a trial combined with a kid missing school due to the appointments, there's no way I would travel that far even if mine qualified.
All I’m saying is we are constantly reminded that time is of the essence, the virus is mutating and that could render the vaccines useless with enough mutations. If we want to prevent that and ever achieve herd immunity, we can’t leave out 25% of the population, effectively requiring that EVERY adult get a shot (they won’t). It is asinine to accelerate the initial development so substantially and then slow down.
I thought the vaccines were too rushed?
) highly effective vaccines and 2 effective ones (AZ, Sinovac,) trust me the kids vaccines are going forward as quickly as possible.When the story was first posted here, I called her VIP list out as wrong because it is wrong. I don't feel the same about the targeting of zip codes with a high percentage of people 65+ and a low percentage of vaccinations.
I guess you missed or ignored my post from the other day which I will post below to illustrate the targeting of underserved communities. Also, the CVS partnership had specific aspects to target Hispanic communities.
I saw this tweet on the FL COVID page and thought it was worth pointing out as a counter to the posts about evil Ron Desantis and the 3000 doses targeted at zip codes that were "too wealthy and too white." None of the articles mentioned anything about the outreach to underserved communities that has been going on since the very beginning of the vaccinations and that Governor Desantis talked about in a press conference very early on.
Over ten times the number of people have been targeted by this outreach as were targeted in those two zip codes yet the media doesn't mention it and neither did anybody in this thread who was posting the articles to show how horrible Desantis is. I guess this type of information doesn't fit the narrative.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">️ To date, the state has administered nearly 45,000 vaccines across 57 places of worship vaccination sites in underserved communities.<br><br>The state continues identify places of worship to support one-day vaccination sites & increase vaccine access to Florida's seniors.
<a href="https://t.co/yWvz1LqgDS">pic.twitter.com/yWvz1LqgDS</a></p>— FL Division of Emergency Management (@FLSERT) <a href="">February 22, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
