Make sure you read the last paragraph. "Ethically dubious".........not wrong there.
"But Professor David Livermore, a microbiologist at the University of East Anglia, said it is 'plausible' that it would be be better for children to catch Covid and recover to develop natural immunity than to be reliant on vaccines.
Experts believe the virus will never fully disappear but it could become endemic in the future — so having a generation of children with natural immunity would help prevent cases spiralling later down the line.
Professor Livermore said natural infection could be a 'a better first step in the lifelong co-existence' with the virus than rolling out the jabs.
Children have only a small risk of becoming seriously ill with Covid and a vanishingly small chance of death, while Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines are associated with ultrarare cases of heart inflammation in young people.
Professor Paul Hunter, an infectious disease expert at the University of East Anglia, said the risks of side effects currently outweighs the dangers posed by Covid itself for most children.
And he added 'as much as half' of all teens would already have had the virus and therefore have natural immunity and not need a jab.
Professor Hunter also said that vaccinating children would be purely for the benefit of adults, which could be seen as ethically 'dubious'."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Was vaccinating EVERYONE during the Polio Myelitis or the German Measles Outbreaks "purely for the benefit of adults" ?
How about Viral Encephalitis, Viral Meningitis, Pertussis, Mumps, Cholera, Tuberculosis, etc, etc, were those VACCINATIONS also ONLY "purely for the benefit of adults" ?
Has that Professor forgotten that CHILDREN have a strange habit (????) of somehow GROWING UP to become Adults and often they ACTUALLY Mate with the members of the Gender opposite to them and BREED children?
Or has he convinced himself that he either a result of, a) Test tube insemination and grown/developed solely in a lab somewhere, b) the result of yet another mysterious and mythical immaculate conception OR, was discovered hiding under a cabbage in a vegetable garden perhaps still wrapped in the fairy-dust?
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@powder A) With COVID variant Delta now on the loose BIG time, there IS No "Low Risk Group" any longer so I'm more than glad, pleased and delighted that vaccinating children WILL give them a far better than even chance of surviving IF Variant Delta strikes them, most probably UNLIKE Arse-wipes, imo, like yourself I have sadly and most unfortunately watched children die from disease and illnesses, experienced such a loss personally and would NOT wish it upon even the WRST Arse-hole in the Universe, including one such as yourself imo.
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