Health
Twin trials and sparkly bandaids: testing COVID vaccines on children – Sydney Morning Herald
Coronavirus trials on children around the world are working out the safest dosage to protect young ones and achieve herd immunity.
Most COVID-19 vaccines being used around the world were first studied in tens of thousands of adults. Studies in children wont need to be nearly as large: Researchers have safety information from those studies and subsequent vaccinations of millions of adults.
And because childrens infection rates are so low – they make up about 13 per cent of COVID-19 cases documented in the US – the main focus of pediatric studies isnt counting numbers of illnesses. Instead researchers are measuring whether the…
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