Mistake to Recommend COVID-19 Vaccines for All Children: Top Danish Health Official

Director of Denmark's National Board of Health Søren Brostrøm addresses a press conference to explain why the AstraZeneca vaccine is stopped in Denmark, in Copenhagen, on April 14, 2021. Philip Davali / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images

COVID-19 vaccines should not have been recommended for all children aged 5 and up, a top Danish health official has said.

Søren Brostrøm, the director general of the Danish Health Authority, told TV 2 that it was a mistake to broadly vaccinate children based on the knowledge that has accumulated since late 2021.