ricardo00 wrote:
Unfortunately a lot of the blame lies with our FDA. When the clinical trials of the 5 to 11 year olds were almost completed (with the number of individuals that had been agreed on), the FDA decided to double the size of the number of individuals that had to be included to detect the "rare side-effects". Since these potential problems have been seen in less than 1 out of 100,000 individuals, a doubly of the number of individuals in these clinical trials to a few thousand is still unlikely to detect such a rare side-effect. So the primary effect of the FDA's action was to result in this age group returning to school unvaccinated. For parents who were willing to make the decision to vaccinate their kids, the FDA's actions resulted in making this impossible. For some reason the FDA has been slow to act in each step of the process, first in the original Emergency Use Approval for adults, then in the approval for a third shot in older individuals, then in the regular approval of the vaccine and now in the approval for 5 to 11 year olds.
Unfortunately a lot of the blame lies with our FDA... (
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