Re: "Doctors urge Covid jabs for young kids", (BP, Sept 13) and "Govt to procure updated jabs", (BP, Sept 7).
The Department of Disease Control has purchased three million doses of Pfizer's vaccine to inoculate Thai children between 6 months to 5 years old. It is worth noting that the United Kingdom's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) decided in February of this year to halt vaccination of children in this age group and recently decided to ban vaccination for children in the 5-year to 11-year age group in the UK.
The DDC needs to revise parental vaccine disclosures to reflect current data regarding the risks (both short-term and potentially long-term) associated with inoculating children as young as 6 months when compared to the almost non-existent risk of death from Covid among children.
