By Jim Hoft
On Friday, the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced the removal of the recommendation on general vaccination against COVID-19 for ages 12 to 17.
Earlier this year, Sweden decided against recommending COVID vaccines for children aged 5-11 because the benefits did not outweigh the risks.
“With the knowledge we have today, with a low risk for serious disease for kids, we don’t see any clear benefit with vaccinating them,” Health Agency official Britta Bjorkholm said during a news conference.
The Swedish government has now announced that the COVID-19 vaccine mandate will be removed for healthy children and adolescents under the age of 18 because the “risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19 in children and young people is very low.”