Comments by "David Getling" (@DavidGetling) on "Children take part in new trials for Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - BBC News" video.

  1. Like so many posts here, this horrifies me, on several counts. Firstly a child can never really give informed consent as they simply don't have the life experience or maturity. And a parent shouldn't be allowed to "volunteer" them. You can't, on the one hand say it's illegal for a child under 16 to have sex, and then allow this. It's logically inconsistent. Secondly, I'm fairly sure that part of medical ethics clearly states that giving a patient a treatment that he/she derives no benefit from is unacceptable. But young people are at negligible risk from this virus, therefore it is wrong to vaccinate them.
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  2.  @arthurlewis9193  Not the kids in the trial. They are healthy kids, being experimented on for the sake of a very tiny percentage of other kids. As such they gain, and will never gain, any benefit from these trials.
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