Denmark Bars Most People Under 50 from COVID Vaccine. UK and Sweden Protect Children.
Sweden’s Public Health Authority ended its recommendation for children to receive coronavirus vaccines. Adults over the age of 65 and those above 18 with health complications are still recommended to receive another dose of the coronavirus vaccine ahead of the winter months. The UK now prohibits children, ages 5 to 11 years old, from receiving COVID injections. However, children under 5 years old and over 12 years old are still eligible.
Denmark had a highly-vaccinated population when it temporarily stopped recommending COVID vaccines in late April 2022.
Denmark will bar almost everyone under 50 from receiving more mRNA Covid jabs, the Danish Health Authority said yesterday.
Denmark had already ended Covid shots for nearly everyone under 18. The new rules go much further.
Danes under 50 will only be allowed to receive the shots if they are “higher risk of becoming severely [emphasis added] from Covid-19.”
The Danish Health Authority has not yet defined those groups, but they will likely include only a handful of people, such as those receiving cancer treatments that suppress their immune systems. Pregnant women are unlikely to be included.
Denmark did not explicitly say the risks of mRNA jabs now outweigh their benefits for healthy people under 50.
But that view is implicit in the announcement, which does not merely discourage but actually bans shots for those people, even though Denmark expects “a large wave of [Covid] infection” in the next few months.
In other words, the health authority is not stopping shots because Covid has ended. It now believes most people are better off getting the coronavirus than taking more mRNA.
The Danish move is particularly significant because Denmark has an excellent national health care system and has aggressively collected data on Covid and vaccines.
Denmark was among the first countries to stop giving Covid shots to healthy children and teenagers. Now other European countries are beginning to follow, with Britain ending mRNA shots for almost all children 10 and under.