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Individualsโ€™ Right for Vaccination



by Eric Choi


Recently, the decisions to stop Moderna Covid vaccination for those who were younger than 30 by Sweden, Denmark, and Finland surprised the world. All three countries based their decision on an unpublished study with Sweden's Public Health Agency saying that it signals "an increased risk of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or the pericardium" -- the double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots of the main vessels. It added: "The risk of being affected is very small."



Anders Tegnell, Sweden's chief epidemiologist, also said they "follow the situation closely and act quickly to ensure that vaccinations against COVID-19 are always as safe as possible and at the same time provide effective protection" against the disease.


However, many other countries consider their decision as hasty, grounded on weak data. They say that Moderna's vaccine was given the green light for use in anyone 18 and over across the 27-nation European Union in January 2021, which proves the safety of the vaccination. In July 2021, the European Medicines Agency even recommended authorizing Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 17, the first time that shot was cleared for anyone under 18. Canada also recently approved its use for those as young as 12.


Hundreds of millions of Moderna doses already have been administered to adults. In a study of more than 3,700 children aged 12 to 17, the vaccine triggered the same signs of immune protection, and no COVID-19 diagnoses arose in the vaccinated group compared with four cases among those given dummy shots.


U.S. and European regulators cautioned, however, that both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines appear linked to a rare reaction in teenagers and young adults -- chest pain and heart inflammation.


It is clearly up to the individual government what decision it will make regarding the kind or timing of vaccination. However, I believe that people, especially teenagers, have a right to listen to various reports and opinions on the vaccination plan and they should be allowed to choose whether they will get vaccinated or not. In conclusion, I believe that individuals under the age of 30 and are not eligible for vaccination should be able to choose for themselves after being educated about the side effects that the vaccine can cause.


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์ตœ๊ทผ ์Šค์›จ๋ด, ๋ด๋งˆํฌ, ํ•€๋ž€๋“œ ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” 30์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ชจ๋”๋‚˜ ๋ฐฑ์‹  ์ ‘์ข…์„ ์ผ์‹œ ์ค‘์ง€ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋†€๋ผ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ํ•œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์‹ฌ์žฅ/์‹ฌํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์งˆํ™˜์„ ์ฝ์œผํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•œ ์Šค์›จ๋ด๊ณต๊ณต๋ณด๊ฑด์ฒญ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์Šค์›จ๋ด์˜ ์ „์—ผ๋ณ‘ํ•™์ž์ธ ์—”๋”์Šค ํ…Œํฌ๋„ฌ์€ "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์ค‘์ด๊ณ  ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ตญ๋ฏผ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งŽ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‚˜๋ผ๋“ค์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด ์„ธ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด๊ณ  ํ™•์‹คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฏธ EU 27๊ตญ์—์„œ 2021๋…„ 1์›”์— ๋ชจ๋”๋‚˜์˜ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ๊ณ , EU์˜ํ•™๋‹น๊ตญ์€ 12-17์„ธ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„์—๊ฒŒ ๋ชจ๋”๋‚˜ ๋ฐฑ์‹ ์ ‘์ข…์„ ์ง€๋‚œ 7์›”์— ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค ์—ญ์‹œ 12์„ธ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„์—๊ฒŒ๊นŒ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋”๋‚˜ ๋ฐฑ์‹  ์ ‘์ข…์„ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ํšŒ์ฐจ์˜ ๋ชจ๋”๋‚˜ ๋ฐฑ์‹ ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์„ฑ์ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ ‘์ข…๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , 12-17์„ธ์˜ 3700๋ช… ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„์— ์ ‘์ข…ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋„ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์„ฑ์ธ๊ณผ ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๋ฉด์—ญ๋ฅ ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ EU ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ๋ชจ๋”๋‚˜๋‚˜ ํ™”์ด์ € ๋ฐฑ์‹ ์ด ๋“œ๋ฌผ๊ธด ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์Šด ํ†ต์ฆ/ ์‹ฌ๊ทผ์—ผ์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ ๋Š” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์–ด๋–ค ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋ฐฑ์‹ ์„ ์–ธ์ œ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ง€๋Š” ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆ ๊ฐ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค, ํŠนํžˆ ์‹ญ๋Œ€ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์€ , ๋จผ์ € ๊ฐ ๋ฐฑ์‹ ์˜ ํšจ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์•Œ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋“ค์€ ํ›„ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐฑ์‹ ์„ ์–ธ์ œ ๋งž์„์ง€ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


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