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Just published in @JME_BMJ our group's reply to Dr. Lam & Nichols' published Response to our article "COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: A risk-benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities"
tl;dr (or cr) version (since not open access)
"In conclusion, we have given a fair representation of the expected harms of the booster dose for young people and provided a conservative overestimate of the benefits of the booster dose against severe COVID-19 in this age group. Thus far vaccination has not been shown to prevent future severe disease in those with infection-derived immunity and this is currently estimated to be over 93% of first-year college-aged people in the USA.
The benefits of the booster in this age group, even to those not previously infected, have not been demonstrated using randomised data.... For these reasons, and because we did not subtract out incidental hospitalisations, we have constructed this analysis conservatively in assuming the upper limit of possible benefits from the booster dose in this age group.
Even in doing so, we have found net harms outweigh net benefits in this 18–29-year-old age group."
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