Why COVID-19 vaccines should be given to kids before the elderly, according to 3 professors (via TheConversationUS)
A mother with her two daughters wearing masks to guard against spreading COVID-19 on a walk, May 9, 2020 in Salerno, Italy.Dana Goldman, David Conti, and Matthew E. Kahn are university professors and experts who have spent decades researching epidemiology and health economics.
Although a COVID-19 vaccine is unlikely to become widely available for some time, when it does, they say that it should be given first to 'superspreaders,' aka young, school-aged children. They explain that this strategy will best way protect the most vulnerable because it will curb the spread of new infections. Once safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are available, tough choices will need to be made about who gets the first shots.
A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health — has proposed anThey recommend first responders and health care workers take top priority. Older adults in congregate living situations would also be part of a first vaccination phase, according to the plan.
We are faculty at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Southern California who have spent decades studying
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