The World Health Organization’s rallying call to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic—“Nobody is safe until everyone is safe”—essentially involves vaccinating every person on the planet. Around 2 billion doses of one of the Covid vaccines have so far been administered, and this number is expected to continue rising as younger people are offered it. By this autumn, children as young as six years of age will be in line for a shot.
Israeli children between the ages of 12 and 16 became the youngest to have a Covid vaccine last March when around 600 were given the Pfizer jab. By May, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had authorized use of the Pfizer vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds, and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) followed suit in June.
But with Covid deaths among children running at 0.00017 percent—that’s just over one in a million—vaccinating the young is questionable. But it’s all to do with a theory called‘immunobridging.’ In other words, children are being asked, once again, to take a bullet for
