Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast.

Today we're going to talk about the brand new authorization by the FDA to use the mRNA vaccines,

the COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna, to use in children and babies

as youngest six months of age.

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There are so many reasons for controversy with the FDA's latest decision to authorize emergency use

of these COVID-19 vaccines in babies as youngest six months of age.

Because it's emergency use, it means that these drug companies are not held liable

for things that could go wrong and side effects with the vaccines in these children.

And we already know from scientific study that it will be years before we understand the full

side effect profile of these relatively brand new vaccines let alone what they could do in babies and children.

Another point of controversy is the fact that most children and babies have a statistically zero chance

of serious illness or adverse events from COVID itself.

So to give them an experimental vaccine that hasn't gone through the normal approval process and testing.

Without knowing the impact years down the road, that's controversial.

And then as you may know, there are now many studies and little disagreement on this

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