Kids in the Crosshairs of the COVID-Vaccine Battles

Children’s risk of serious illness or death from COVID, which is near zero, is less than the risk from an emergency-authorized vaccine, say many parents.

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A second-grade student has her temperature checked at Benbrook Elementary School in Houston, Texas, August 23, 2021.

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You do realize that we’ll never get out of this pandemic — the mortifications of daily life, the mostly useless non-pharmaceutical interventions, debates about masks, the random closures, and the increasing demands to see your papers or lose your job — if we make ending it conditional on every parent’s volunteering his toddlers for an emergency-authorized dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.

If you think that it was a big lift to vaccinate everyone who is older than twelve, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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