More precisely, American 5–11 year olds are the trial run of Pfizer's COVID vaccine. The UK is waiting on our results before they will jab any healthy children. Specifically, they want more up-to-date infection rate and vaccine efficacy and safety data on this cohort; apparently Pfizer's underpowered trial failed to convince. Vinay Prasad has the details, along with harsh words for those American school systems mandating a dubious experimental vaccine for young children.
In other news, Spain and Canada also broke daily records yesterday, with over 60,000 and nearly 15,000 cases, respectively. (Reports of 50,000 Spanish cases are from Tuesday.) Also, the Supremes have scheduled a special session for January 7th to hear challenges to several federal vaccine mandates.
P.S. Massachusetts cases were up almost a percentage point today, for an all-pandemic high of 9791 if our records are correct, and seem determined to hit 10,000 in a day soon—perhaps even tomorrow if the MDPH is working the pre-holiday.
Thursday, December 23, 2021
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