News Forum - More Pfizer vaccines for children arrive in Thailand

[Thaiger]

Another batch of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses has landed in Thailand, with Department of Disease Control director-general Dr Opas Karnkawinpong confirming the arrival of 1,538,550 doses on Wednesday. As reported by  Nation Thailand, Dr Opas said the government has procured the mRNA vaccine for children aged over 12, along with other target groups, with a total of 8 million doses having arrived since September. The recently procured doses are on top of 1.5 million doses previously donated by the United States, with Dr Opas stating that as of October 26, 4.3 million children aged 12 to 17 have registered to […]

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[Bob20]

And one million donated doses are still stuck Some people need to get their finger out and learn the meaning of cooperation for the common good of the country.

[BlueSphinx]

27 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

Another batch of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses has landed in Thailand, with Department of Disease Control director-general Dr Opas Karnkawinpong confirming the arrival of 1,538,550 doses on Wednesday. As reported by  Nation Thailand, Dr Opas said the government has procured the mRNA vaccine for children aged over 12, along with other target groups, with a total of 8 million doses having arrived since September. The recently procured doses are on top of 1.5 million doses previously donated by the United States, with Dr Opas stating that as of October 26, 4.3 million children aged 12 to 17 have registered to […]

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From the article: 

Vaccination of children began on October 4, with more than 2 million doses having been administered to date, while Dr Opas said that in this time there have been less than 10 cases of myocarditis/pericarditis reported. Heart inflammation is a recorded side effect of the mRNA vaccine, with Dr Opas stating that among the reported cases of myocarditis/pericarditis, there have been no severe symptoms, with all patients having been treated. 

> Note the carefully chosen words that these reported 'mild' myocarditis/pericarditis cases have been treated.  Don't confuse treated with 'fully recovered' as unfortunately the damage to the heart-muscle from myocarditis is irreversible (and will impact present and future physical performance).  There is a reason that many top athletes are refusing to take the vaccine (e.g. Novak Djokovic not wanting to disclose whether he has had the jab).

[Malc-Thai]

10 minutes ago, Bob20 said:

And one million donated doses are still stuck Some people need to get their finger out and learn the meaning of cooperation for the common good of the country.

Isn't there 3 million moderna still sitting waiting for someone to say "yes it's OK to give to us free!"

[Poolie]

5 minutes ago, Malc-Thai said:

Isn't there 3 million moderna still sitting waiting for someone to say "yes it's OK to give to us free!"

Yes it's over there behind the unicorn feed.

[Bob20]

6 minutes ago, Malc-Thai said:

Isn't there 3 million moderna still sitting waiting for someone to say "yes it's OK to give to us free!"

Absolutely. But as this article was purely about Pfizer I didn't mention them.

Good point though!

[Smithydog]

1 hour ago, BlueSphinx said:

> Note the carefully chosen words that these reported 'mild' myocarditis/pericarditis cases have been treated.  Don't confuse treated with 'fully recovered' as unfortunately the damage to the heart-muscle from myocarditis is irreversible (and will impact present and future physical performance).  There is a reason that many top athletes are refusing to take the vaccine (e.g. Novak Djokovic not wanting to disclose whether he has had the jab).

I am saddened if anyone has a serious adverse effect because of a vaccine. But you seem to be advocating for vaccination not to occur simply because of “less than 10 reported cases” out of 2 million students vaccinated and possible future impairment? The incident rate is 0.005%. I simply can’t agree with such an assessment based on suck a low apparent risk factor.

Students suffer serious injuries every day, yet I don’t hear the same calls to stop sports, driving in cars or teaching them not to fall. A study of student injuries in 4 countries, including Thailand, identified the following:

“The percentage of adolescents reporting one or more serious injuries within the past 12 months was 42.2% for all countries, ranging from 27.0% in Myanmar to 46.8% in Thailand. By major activity, “fall” (14.6%) was the leading external cause of injury, followed by playing or training for a sport (9.9%) and vehicle accident (6.1%)”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447591/

Arguing that the vaccine should not be given as the risks are too great for students on the basis of a 0.0005% incident rate doesn’t make sense to me, especially taking into account the far higher risks they seem to have to face every day in their lives, according to this report.

In my opinion, If this arrival of further doses enable more kids to get back to school with face-to-face teaching and all of the additional experiences gained, rather than online learning, then I consider such a minor chance of risk is worthwhile. 

 

[Jason]

Take the odds of not only getting and then dying from the Delta strain and put it against heart inflammation in young people and the vaccine wins.....undeniably.