[The Pulse]: The Norwegian government is taking advice from their Institute of Public Health, who has stated that it has not recommended that all children aged fifteen and under be vaccinated. They are taking this approach because “there is little individual benefit for most children,” according to Minister of Health and Care Services Ingvild Kjerkol.
The Norwegian government explains,
“Children and adolescents are at very low risk of becoming seriously ill with COVID-19. The illness rarely results in children being admitted to hospital, and the average period of hospitalisation is one day. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has reason to believe that the vaccine’s effectiveness against symptomatic illness with the Omicron variant is considerably reduced, compared with past virus variants.”
This correlates with data and science that’s emerged all over the world. For example, a German study indicated that zero healthy kids between the ages of 5-11 have died from COVID. The authors found that for children the risk of death is 3 per 1,000,000 if they don’t have an underlying health condition....<<<Read More>>>...