Covid vaccines for children are coming. So is misinformation

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Brandy Zadrozny
@BrandyZadrozny
New from me: Amid excitement about new Covid vaccines for 5 - 11 year-olds, researchers, doctors & pro-vaccine advocates are bracing for a kind of misinformation that they, frankly, fear. A flood of graphic anti-vaccine propaganda featuring young children.

Covid vaccines for children are coming. So is misinformation.
Dr. Natasha Burgert is well aware of the concerns parents have about the Covid-19 vaccines.
nbcnews.com
9:32 AM · Nov 3, 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/vaccine-misinformation-poised-spike-covid-shots-kids-roll-rcna4360?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

Dr. Natasha Burgert is well aware of the concerns parents have about the Covid-19 vaccines.

The Kansas pediatrician, who is a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, said she’s already been counseling some parents about their fears. And she worries that they are entering a particularly sensitive time — one that anti-vaccination activists could exploit.

“If the anti-vaccine industry starts doing what we anticipate, with those very graphic and emotionally charged videos, and bringing out their supposed experts, I think it’s going to affect a new group of parents,” she said.

Burgert and many other doctors, public health experts and misinformation researchers are anticipating a flood of anti-vaccine propaganda featuring younger children following last week’s vote by a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech’s lower-dose Covid vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unanimously recommended the Covid vaccines for 5 to 11-year-olds on Tuesday. CDC director Rochelle Walensky signed off on the approval later in the evening, opening the door for more than 28 million children to start receiving vaccinations on Wednesday morning.

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