mRNA COVID-19 vaccine safety among children and adolescents: a Canadian National Vaccine Safety Network cohort study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: The Canadian National Vaccine Safety Network conducted active safety surveillance for COVID-19 vaccines. This study aimed to characterize the short-to-medium term safety of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines across the pediatric age spectrum. Methods: In this cohort study, vaccinated and unvaccinated children and adolescents aged 6 months to 19 years from eight Canadian provinces and territories were invited to participate. The outcome was a health event preventing daily activities, resulting in school absenteeism, or requiring medical consultation. Age-stratified multivariable regression models were used to examine health events associated with first and second doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines across different age groups: children under 5, children aged 5-11 years and adolescents aged 12-19 years. Findings: From January 2021 through February 2023, a total of 259,361 individuals from the dose one survey, 131,032 from the dose 2 survey, and 1179 from the control survey were included. In the week following dose two, vaccinated adolescents showed a higher proportion of health events [794 (4.6%) of 17,218 BNT162b2 recipients, 98 (8.5%) of 1153 mRNA-1273 recipients, 49 of (10.6%) of 464 heterologous schedule recipients] than unvaccinated adolescents [9 (3.7%) of 242 controls], but most events were self-limited and resolved within 7 days. No significant differences in proportion of health events following mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were observed between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups among adolescents after dose 1, or among children under 5 or those aged 5-11 years after any dose. Reported myocarditis/pericarditis cases within 0-28 days peaked among male adolescents following dose 2, in three of (0.037%) 8088 homologous BNT162b2 recipients, and two of (0.529%) 378 homologous mRNA-1273 recipients. Interpretation: Our findings suggest that reported health events, including myocarditis/pericarditis, vary by pediatric age group. Vaccinated adolescents reported health events more frequently following the second mRNA COVID-19 vaccine dose, while younger age groups did not report events more frequently than their unvaccinated counterparts. Funding: Canadian Immunization Research Network, Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Public Health Agency of Canada; COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".