Top doctors refuse to give their own kids a third shot

Two of the nation's top doctors said they refuse to give their own kids a third COVID shot as vaccinated teenage boys have a low risk of hospitalization, but the likelihood of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, caused by the jab is 10 out of 100,000.

Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of , and Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the 's vaccine advisory committee, told that the benefits of a booster for teen males are outweighed by the possible side effects.

One of the most common serious side effects for a teen from a COVID booster jab was myocarditis, a rare heart inflammation case that occurs mostly in males, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (), which had recorded two such cases among a group of 20,000 while vaccinated teen boys only had a 0.3 out of 100,000 chances of being hospitalized over COVID.