but that presumably doesn't help those children who were vaccinated in the panic of the pandemic and who might have been affected.
Of course everyone needs to weigh up the assumed risks for themselves, but I remember thread after thread on here where posters were absolutely slated for daring to suggest that any long-term effects of the vaccine were as yet unknown and they felt uncomfortable exposing their children to an unknown and at that point as yet fairly untested vaccine.
For the WHO to suggest that the vaccine should now only be used for over 20s it is clearly not considered to be an insignifficant risk.
The media have a huge part to play here. As soon as swine flu emerged the media had everyone worked up into a frenzy about a vaccine and about how vital it was for all children to be offered it, etc. As result many people blindly followed and because of fear took up the vaccine. Reality is that the death rate from Swine flu was far lower than the media had hoped, and in fact the vaccination programme, which had clearly been rolled out far too quickly may have caused more damage than the flu itself.
If you're in an at risk category then of course it's always hard to weigh up the risks of the illness against the risks of the vaccine. But if you're not in a high risk category then the risks are tiny.
Perhaps we need to start thinking before just blindly being panicked into vaccination programmes that are clearly designed to placate the media as much as anything else...