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Top U.S. Doctors Refuse to Give Their Own Kids a COVID-19 Booster Shot Due to Risk of Heart Inflammation
US💉@COVID19Up: Two of the nation’s top doctors have refused to give their own kids a COVID-19 booster shot as vaccinated teenage boys have a low risk of hospitalization, but the likelihood of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, is higher.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of California, and Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee, told journalist David Zweig on January 27 that the benefits of a booster shot for teen males are outweighed by the risk of side effects.
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Both Gandhi and Offit, who have advocated for the vaccine and gotten themselves and their children vaccinated, claimed the CDC was premature in advising teens to get a COVID-19 booster shot on January 5, with Gandhi saying, “I am not giving my 12 and 14-year-old boys boosters.”
Offit said he advised his 20-year-old son to avoid the third dose and said the booster shot would not be worth the risk for “the average healthy 17-year-old boy.”
The doctors’ statements come as other health officials claimed the CDC had made its booster recommendation without proper data on the safety issues.
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