Tag Archives: children

This morning.

They’re kidding.

Or are they?

They are obviously kidding.

We may never know.

We do know. Stop it.

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Ahead of the game.

Last year’s Late Late Toy Show.

Last night/this morning.

Via New York Daily News:

Children between the ages of 5 and 11 are eligible to receive $100 to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced.

The kids will need to have their parent or guardian’s consent to get vaccinated, and de Blasio cautioned that the shot can hurt a little.

But once it’s over, $100 in sweet dough awaits them, de Blasio said in his daily briefing from City Hall.

“It buys a whole lot of candy,” he smirked.

NYC kids ages 5-11 eligible for $100 bonus to get COVID-19 vaccine: ‘It buys a whole lot of candy.’ (MSN)

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Last night.

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G’wan the Fiona!

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Oh.

Yesterday.

Department of Health, Dublin 2.

“I’d like to take the chance to talk to the children. The numbers we’re looking at now, it is not your fault. It’s not because you’re going to school.”

Professor Martin Cormican, Clinical Lead on Infection Control, HSE.

NPHET Briefing (RTÉ)

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This afternoon.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) is reviewing whether to resume testing ‘asymptomatic close contacts of primary school children’.

Via RTE News:

Leo Varadkar said if there is a change to the current policy, it is more likely to be a move to testing rather than contact tracing.

Speaking to reporters in Monaghan, he said the current spike in cases among children aged 5-12 was not surprising given that they are not vaccinated.

But he added there are indications that will change and vaccines could be offered to children in that age group.

NPHET assessing close contact testing in schools (RTÉ)

Yesterday: ‘Kid-Sized Doses’

Um.

Couldn’t happen here.

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“Infected children are potential “reservoirs” for the evolution of new variants as well as potential spreaders of current variants Kids with COVID-19, even if asymptomatic, are infectious and can harbor SARS-CoV-2 variants. Variants could potentially impact both the severity of the disease and the efficacy of vaccines, as we are seeing with the Delta variant. When we cultured the live virus, we found a wide variety of genetic variants. New variants have the potential to be more contagious and also make kids sicker.”

Lael Yonker, pediatric pulmonologist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital

Children could be dangerous carriers of virus (Harvard Gazette)

This morning.

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The Best and Worst Places to Be as We Learn to Live With Delta (Bloomberg)

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This morning.

92% of adults vaccinated but children aged 5-12 ‘unlikely’ to get their jab this year (Irish Examiner)

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Last night.

Project Veritas released the third video of its COVID vaccine investigative series apparently showing two Johnson & Johnson officials on hidden camera who argue that children do not need to take the COVID vaccine in part because of the potential long-term side effects.

Johnson & Johnson: Children Don’t Need the ‘F*cking’ COVID Vaccine Because There Are ‘Unknown Repercussions Down the Road’ (Project Veritas)

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“I have no issue with the principle of (vaccinating children as young as five)…..But I would be bound by public-health guidance in respect of it, because public health will have to weigh up the benefits for the child in respect of receiving the vaccine as opposed to the risks to the child.”

Taoiseach Micheal Martin (above) on Saturday

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‘…Younger children have had a difficult pandemic to date. In the beginning they were incorrectly labelled as “vectors”, which led to avoidance and for many to feel stigmatised, according to recent expert evidence before an Oireachtas committee. Children’s education has also suffered. The long-term psychological effect of Covid is unknown.

Children in the Pfizer trial were given 10 microgram doses, rather than the 30 micrograms recommended for over-12s. The antibody responses and side effects were comparable. In other words, the safety profile and immunogenicity data in children aged five to 11 vaccinated at a lower dose are consistent with those in other older populations at a higher dose. The researchers plan to submit the results to regulators to seek approval for vaccinating children younger than 12, the current age limit. However, there remain differing opinions as to whether young children will need to be vaccinated.

…Taoiseach Micheál Martin has signalled the State will move to vaccinate children aged between five and 11 if advised to do so. The approval of the European Medicines Agency and then consideration by the National Immunisation Advisory Council and the chief medical officer, Dr Tony Holohan, will be required. These authorities have provided sound advice so far. There will be no reason to doubt whatever recommendation is made.’

Editorial, Sunday Independent.

Should we vaccinate young children against Covid? (Sunday Independent)

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The Department of Education, Dublin 2.

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Yes, but how free?, etc.

This afternoon.

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Cartoon by Bob Moran

This morning.

Brussels, Belgium.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said there would be no additional supplies of mRNA vaccines in July and that emphasis now was to expand the vaccination roll-out ‘through younger age cohorts’ with AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson doses.

Via RTÉ:

Mr Martin said there was “some research going on” in terms of mixing of vaccines, and that he had spoken to the Chief Medical Officer about administering vaccines to younger age groups.

He said: “Operationally what we’ve been doing has been very effective and very efficient, coming down through the age cohorts, [with] very high uptake rates.

“And I know that the Chief Medical Officer…indicated to me that he would be engaging with NIAC in respect of the application for administering vaccines in terms of age restrictions and particularly the context of AstraZeneca, and Janssen (Johnson & Johnson), and that would really broaden the portfolio of vaccines available for July and August,” he told reporters on day two of an EU summit.”

Vaccines needed for younger cohorts quicker – Taoiseach (RTÉ)

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