New guidance from Florida’s top health official says parents should know healthy children might be more at risk from a COVID-19 vaccine than from COVID-19 itself. The guidance (pdf), issued a day after it was announced, notes that children without comorbidities are at little risk of developing severe COVID-19 and that youth are at heightened risk of experiencing heart inflammation following receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine. The guidance also points to how many children across the country have contracted COVID-19 and recovered, granting them some level of immunity, and that some studies have indicated that people with such immunity are more likely to suffer side effects if they then get vaccinated. Health care practitioners need to “analyze existing data on the COVID-19 vaccine alongside parents when deciding to vaccinate children,” Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said in a statement. “Based on currently available data, the risks of administering COVID-19 vaccination among …