You can argue that risk is so low that bothering with vaccination for young people isn’t worth it on selfish grounds and it is somehow more ethical then to not recommend it. I would strongly disagree due to long term risks of Covid, which are much higher than any risks of vaccination.
But also, blood clots are a disease of aging. Young people are at almost no risk of those. So even if the danger were real, which it isn’t and even if there it was stupidly tiny, it would be orders of magnitude lower here.
So any argument to not recommend would have applied before anyway.
I’m not arguing vaccination vs. no vaccination for young people, I’m arguing that it might not be such a bad idea for young women with a corresponding risk profile to wait a few months (at least half of which will be spent in lockdown anyways) for Biontech or Moderna.
Should you skip Astrazeneca today in order to get Biontech tomorrow? I’d say yes. Should you skip Astrazeneca now for Biontech in September if you are a young healthy woman? Maybe.
You can argue that risk is so low that bothering with vaccination for young people isn’t worth it on selfish grounds and it is somehow more ethical then to not recommend it. I would strongly disagree due to long term risks of Covid, which are much higher than any risks of vaccination.
But also, blood clots are a disease of aging. Young people are at almost no risk of those. So even if the danger were real, which it isn’t and even if there it was stupidly tiny, it would be orders of magnitude lower here.
So any argument to not recommend would have applied before anyway.
I’m not arguing vaccination vs. no vaccination for young people, I’m arguing that it might not be such a bad idea for young women with a corresponding risk profile to wait a few months (at least half of which will be spent in lockdown anyways) for Biontech or Moderna.
Should you skip Astrazeneca today in order to get Biontech tomorrow? I’d say yes. Should you skip Astrazeneca now for Biontech in September if you are a young healthy woman? Maybe.