Dr. Ninay Prasad is a progressive, pro vaccine advocate. Prasad believed in the lockdowns however he is “stunned” over the “many smart people” who are “so eager to embrace” giving children ages 12 to 15 the coronavirus vaccines.
Prasad gives several reasons why he concerned about teenagers getting the vaccine.
His first issue is that 12 to 15 year olds are not at risk from dying from the coronavirus and that those doses shouldn’t be used in the USA but shipped to other places to vaccinate those at most risk.
1. Issue 1
Does the avg. recipient benefit?The avg. recipient of the vaccine was not going to die of covid, nor going to have a rare AE from vaccine, so the first Q I have is does the avg. person benefit?
— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) May 11, 2021
The progressive doctor also complains that leftists are pushing children to be vaccinated not because it’s good for them but for classic virtue signaling.
4. What concerns me the most about this debate is that we are confusing a rational appraisal of a vaccine with classic virtue signaling.
Doctors have already offered their kids to the vaccine… but we have yet to have the ACIP!
— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) May 11, 2021
Prasad, himself believes that children could be put at great risk because there are a lot of unknowns and cites unlike adults the coronavirus is not an emergency.
Lastly, Dr. Prasad points out that “If we roll this vaccine out to millions of children, and there is a reaction such as we say with this unusual clotting and thrombosis in young women, that is going to impact the whole immunization program.”
Min 45 “If we roll this vaccine out to millions of children, and there is a reaction such as we say with this unusual clotting and thrombosis in young women, that is going to impact the whole immunization program.”
— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) May 11, 2021
