Fri Nov 12, 2021 – 12:57 pm ESTFri Nov 12, 2021 – 12:58 pm EST
TAIPEI, Taiwan (LifeSiteNews) — The country of Taiwan has stopped giving kids and teens a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine due to serious safety concerns. Additionally, any plans for approving the first jab for children younger than 12 are put on ice.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare decided on Thursday to suspend giving second doses of Pfizer’s experimental mRNA COVID jab to children aged 12 to 17 after 16 cases of heart inflammation conditions were diagnosed in youth following the shot.
According to RT World News, the ministry’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices made the recommendation to halt administering the second dose to young people until the group of experts can adequately examine the abnormal number of potentially fatal heart inflammation conditions myocarditis and pericarditis that have been diagnosed in the nation’s youth.
The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CECC) indicated international data will be used in the determination of the safety of the shots for kids, with plenty of data to study as all countries are vaccinating children 12 and up except Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
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