{"id":499873,"date":"2021-06-22T23:46:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T03:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=499873"},"modified":"2021-06-22T23:46:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T03:46:04","slug":"bc-covid-19-henry-stays-course-on-vaccine-for-children-despite-no-who-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=499873","title":{"rendered":"BC &#8211; COVID-19: Henry stays course on vaccine for children, despite no WHO policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/canada\/covid-19-henry-stays-course-on-vaccine-for-children-despite-no-who-policy\/ar-AALknG5?ocid=msedgntp\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/canada\/covid-19-henry-stays-course-on-vaccine-for-children-despite-no-who-policy\/ar-AALknG5?ocid=msedgntp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;B.C.\u2019s policy to vaccinate children against COVID-19 is the right thing to do, despite no direction from the World Health Organization, says provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.<\/p>\n<p>Henry said Canada and other countries were immunizing children from 12 to 18 with Pfizer, the only WHO-approved vaccine for use in that age group. However, the WHO hadn\u2019t made general recommendations on vaccinating kids against COVID-19, saying more evidence was needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the decisions we\u2019ve made in Canada and in many other countries,\u201d Henry said. \u201cWe know that there has been studies done looking at safety and efficacy in children down to age 12, and there are additional studies being done in children down to six months of age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/canada\/covid-19-henry-stays-course-on-vaccine-for-children-despite-no-who-policy\/ar-AALknG5?ocid=msedgntp &#8220;B.C.\u2019s policy to vaccinate children against COVID-19 is the right thing to do, despite no direction from the World Health Organization, says provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. Henry said Canada and other countries were immunizing children from 12 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=499873\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}