A major impetus behind jabbing children, beyond their own health, is the contribution it could make to ending the pandemic
One afternoon in May, Michael Joseph Smith, a paediatric infectious disease specialist, strides in baseball-patterned socks through a Duke University facility in Durham, North Carolina, to welcome Cameron O’Hara, a 14-year-old vaccine trial subject. Smith has been acting as co-principal investigator at one of the sites that’s been testing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in children.
O’Hara and his mother have come to the office after the “unblinding” process — in which he’d learnt, to his disappointment, that he’s been getting a placebo — to get his first dose of the real thing. He crosses his sneakers and grips his mother’s hand as the needle goes into his arm...If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.
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