Parents Should Ask These Questions Before Giving Their Child A COVID-19 Vaccine: ER Doctor

For parents who are contemplating whether their child should receive a COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Joseph Fraiman, an emergency medicine physician, says they should ask the following two questions to help them decide. “The first thing that you want to do for harm/benefit analysis [is to ask], is there a mortality benefit for these vaccines for your child,” Fraiman said at a roundtable discussion hosted by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on March 7. Experts say that children are at much lower risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19 compared to other age groups. “The majority of studies haven’t been able to find a single healthy child who’s died from COVID. The studies that say they have found them, they can’t confirm that they were healthy children,” Fraiman said. Researchers of three studies, two have been peer-reviewed and published, found that there were 25 deaths from COVID-19 in children younger than …  » Read full article