To: golfer72 who wrote (1375975 ) 10/3/2022 5:29:30 PM From: Broken_Clock Read Replies (3) | Respond to Sweden Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccines For ChildrenAuthored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The Swedish Public Health Authority has stopped recommending healthy children between the ages of 12 and 17 receive the COVID-19 vaccine. It cited the “very low risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19” in children and teens for the change. After Oct. 31, vaccination will be recommended for only certain children in vulnerable groups.SVT and said that “we see that the need for care as a result of COVID-19 has been low among children and young people during the pandemic” and added that the need for vaccines has “decreased since the virus variant omicron began to spread.”“In this phase of the pandemic, we do not see that there is a continued need for vaccination in this group,” recommending three vaccine doses. Four doses are recommended for people over the age of 65.Sweden refused to implement draconian COVID-19 lockdowns. Data and studies have shown that the highly developed Scandinavian nation may have experienced less harm from the virus and lockdowns as compared with nations that did implement those measures.Vaccine ChangeIn nearby Denmark, authorities issued a similar rule change and will not offer people under the age of 50 more COVID-19 vaccine boosters.“The purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with COVID-19, and people aged under 50 are therefore currently not being offered booster vaccination,” Individuals under the age of 50, it said , “are generally not at particularly higher risk of becoming severely ill” from the virus. At the same time, younger people are also “well protected against becoming severely ill” and a “very large number of them have already been vaccinated and have previously been infected,” according to the authority.
