(Updated 31/01/22)
STOCKHOLM, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Sweden has decided against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11, the Health Agency said on Thursday, arguing that the benefits did not outweigh the risks.
"With the knowledge we have today, with a low risk for serious disease for kids, we don't see any clear benefit with vaccinating them," Health Agency official Britta Bjorkholm told a news conference. She added that the decision could be revisited if the research changed or if a new variant changed the pandemic. Kids in high-risk groups can already get the vaccine.
Sweden registered more than 40,000 new cases on Jan. 26, one of the highest daily numbers during the pandemic, despite limited testing. While the forth wave has seen daily infection records shattered, the healthcare is not under the same strain as during previous waves.
On Thursday 101 patients with COVID required intensive care, well below the more than 400 patients during spring 2021. In total, nearly 16,000 people have died of COVID in Sweden since the pandemic started.
Sweden's government on Wednesday extended restrictions, which included limited opening hours for restaurants and an attendance cap for indoor venues, for two weeks but said it hoped to remove them on Feb. 9.
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Meanwhile, where is New Zealand heading?
"We will kill 117 kids to save one child from dying from COVID in the 5 to 11 age range"
"That's according to a risk-benefit analysis done by risk-benefit expert Dr. Toby Rogers. His analysis has been viewed by over 22,000 readers. No mistakes were found. Nothing but praise."
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Great news from Sweden!... BUT... remember that the statement "We will kill 117 kids to save one child from dying from COVID in the 5 to 11 age range" is wildly understated for at least 3 reasons...
#1 The adverse reactions are massively under-reported and seem to average out somewhere around 40:1. Therefore straight away we need to multiply 117 X 40 = 4680
#2 To my knowledge there is not a single documented case of a healthy child dying from Covid... any deaths have always been in children with serious co-morbidities. This of course raises the 4680 exponentially again
#3 Note too, that it is extremely dangerous to jab children who have serious health conditions with these toxic spikes-proteins…
HURRAY! Well done, Sweden!