Another institution to distrust and ignore
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The White House's chief covid coordinator is recommending that young children who have already been infected with the virus still get vaccinated - even as data shows they suffer limited risk of hospitalization and death and that natural immunity is effective at preventing the worst outcomes.
Dr Ashish Jha, the White House's COVID-19 response coordinator, told CBS Tuesday morning that he recommends parents to get their children vaccinated, even if the child has natural immunity from a previous Covid infection - for which CDC data shows around 70 percent of U.S. minors have.
Jha's guidance comes even as official data continues to show the limited risk children face from the virus, and that there was limited demand for the shots when they became available to children between the ages of five and 11 earlier this year.
What’s astonishing is that there is still a small segment of the American public willing to listen to and follow the advice of these fraudsters. It’s probably time to dust off those Nigerian prince's email solicitations which, it seems were prematurely retired.
Polling for the Kaiser Family Foundation found that only about one in five parents of children under age five (18 percent) are eager to get their child vaccinated right away, while a larger share (38 percent) say they plan to wait a while to see how the vaccine is working for others.
About four in ten parents of children under five are more reluctant to get their child vaccinated, with 27 percent saying they will 'definitely not' get their child vaccinated and 11 percent saying they will only do so if they are required.
