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<p>Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) recently announced <a href="https://www.tga.gov.au/tga-provisional-approval-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-include-12-15-years-age-group">provisional approval</a> for the Pfizer vaccine to be used in 12-15-year-olds.</p>
<p>We learned on Monday that the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has advised that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander <a href="https://www.health.gov.au/news/atagi-statement-regarding-vaccination-of-adolescents-aged-12-15-years">children aged 12-15</a>, those who live in remote communities, and those with underlying medical conditions should be prioritised to receive the jab.</p>
<p>With COVID vaccination for kids being such a hot topic, we asked five experts whether we should vaccinate children in Australia against COVID-19.</p>
<h2>Four out of five experts said yes</h2>
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<p><strong><em>Here are their detailed responses:</em></strong></p>
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<p><em>If you have a “yes or no” health question you’d like posed to Five Experts, email your suggestion to: phoebe.roth@theconversation.edu.au.</em></p>
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<p><strong><em>Disclosures:</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Asha Bowen is co-chair of the Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ANZPID) group of the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases. She receives research funding from NHMRC.</em></p>
<p><em>Catherine Bennett has received NHMRC and MRFF funding, and is an independent expert on the AstraZeneca advisory board.</em></p>
<p><em>Julian Savulescu receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. This work was supported by the UKRI/AHRC funded <a href="https://ukpandemicethics.org/">UK Ethics Accelerator project</a>, grant number AH/V013947/1.</em></p>
<p><em>Margie Danchin is a member of ATAGI’s working group on vaccine safety, evaluation, monitoring and confidence.</em></p>
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<p><a href="https://theconversation.com/au/team#phoebe-roth">Phoebe Roth</a>, Deputy Editor, Health+Medicine, <em><a href="http://www.theconversation.com/">The Conversation</a></em></p>
<p>This article is republished from <a href="https://theconversation.com">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/should-we-vaccinate-children-against-covid-19-we-asked-5-experts-165316">original article</a>.</p>

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