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STIKO (the Ständige Impfkomission), the German vaccine regulatory authority, have released a draft of their updated Covid vaccination recommendations.
The document excludes healthy children under 18 years of age from vaccination, because they’re not at serious risk from infection. Of course, we’ve known this for three years, but we’ve vaccinated almost 10 million kids anyway, all to no purpose. Maybe somebody can apologise, or something. ...
Neither available vaccines nor the science have changed all that much at all since the whole circus started. What has changed since 2021, are attitudes towards vaccines, and Covid vaccines in particular. The job of regulators like STIKO is not to channel scientific findings into medical recommendations, but rather to achieve a politically workable (if highly idiosyncratic) triangulation between some subset of the scientific research and what is held to be culturally or socially acceptable in the moment. That’s why they can’t stop changing their minds, but they’ve discovered a small modicum of rationality now that most of the hysteria has boiled off.
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