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Risks and benefits of vaccinating children against COVID The EU is scheduled to decide whether to approve vaccination of 12-to-15-year-olds within a few weeks. Not all doctors consider this a good thing. Alexandra Lützenkirchen, a pediatrician based in the city of Leverkusen in western Germany, will find out on Thursday whether she has good news for her patients. That s when she ll know whether the vaccine doses that she has ordered are going to arrive. We received 24 doses this week for a practice of two, she said. Four vials of the eagerly awaited BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine but we had ordered 24. Right now, we re spending a lot of time postponing appointments.

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