Fox News medical collaborator Dr. Nicole Saphier assesses developments in vaccine testing.
Now that Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson have coronavirus vaccines on the market and in the arms of patients, more immunizations are available.
But people have been very selective about which vaccine they want to receive. Fox News medical collaborator Dr. Nicole Saphier told FOX Business Tonight on Tuesday that patients should not waste time worrying about the label and should take what they can.
“The vaccine that is offered to you is the vaccine that you should consider getting,” she said. “I don’t necessarily think that all people need to be vaccinated. I believe it is a personal choice. “
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Saphier said that a conversation about risk versus choice is important to have with the patient’s doctor if there are underlying concerns, but he emphasized his confidence in the three vaccines anyway.
“[They] all have shown 100% effectiveness in keeping people out of the hospital and saving their lives when it comes to the severity of COVID-19, ”she said. “So, if you think the vaccine is right for you, I encourage you to take whatever vaccine is being offered to you.”
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Moderna recently announced that it will begin testing its vaccine on children from six months to 11 years of age. Even though children are less vulnerable to the virus, Saphier said that vaccinating them is vital to controlling general transmission.
“When it comes to controlling the level of viral transmission, yes, we want to make sure that the viral spread is less,” she said. “And with that the testing of these vaccines in our children would come”.
Saphier said that although Moderna and Pfizer are testing vaccines for teenagers with no results yet, she is confident that they will be effective.
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