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My understanding is that is because they are children, so the doses are much lower.

DTAP, for example, is one of the vaccines that kids need. It has a 5 dose schedule. But, an adult that was never vaccinated can get one shot of Tdap instead.

Notably, the DTAP vaccine is 71% effective after 5 years[1]. Compare to the covid vaccine being 38% after 6 months[2].

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/dtap-tdap-td/hcp/about-vacc...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e3.htm?s_cid=mm...



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