Ontario Chief Medical Officer Kieran Moore Admits COVID Vaccines May be Risky for Young People
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the benefits and risks of the MMR vaccine, and whether or not it should be recommended to young, healthy people with no underlying medical illness. We also discuss the risks associated with the vaccine and the benefits associated with it.
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So why not just recommend it to everybody instead of saying it's a personal decision?
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Because at present we're doing a risk-based approach.
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The risk, there's always a risk to having any therapeutic versus a benefit.
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You want to make sure there's a very strong benefit versus a risk.
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If we're an 18-year-old healthy individual, the risk to getting hospitalized,
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if we have no underlying medical illness, is very, very low.
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We know there is a risk, a very small risk, one in 5,000 that may get myocarditis, for example.
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And you'd have to have that discussion on the risk-benefit of a complication from the vaccine
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versus a benefit of decreased hospitalization for a young, healthy person.