Posted on 09/20/2022 5:10:22 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Less than 325,000 of America's youngest children are fully vaccinated as hesitancy continues to dog the pandemic response.
Why it matters: Health officials are sounding the alarm over the potential of low child vaccination rates fueling transmission and carrying the risk of severe illness for some of the youngest Americans.
"What's at stake really with this is that we're going to be setting up a bunch of kids for risk of severe disease in the future," Daniel Blatt, a pediatric infectious disease physician at the University of Louisville and Norton Children's Hospital, told Axios. "We don't really know what the next variant is gonna be. And the way to get ahead of that next variant is to give children a blueprint on how to fight it and that's what the vaccine does." Zoom in: In D.C., which has the highest percentage of young children vaccinated, less than one quarter of children 6 months to four years old have received one dose— and 7.5% have received both doses, per the Washington Post.
The states with some of the lowest child vaccination rates — Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi — have vaccination rates of less than 0.2%, the Post found. The big picture: The Food and Drug Administration in June authorized COVID-19 vaccines for children between 6 months and 5 years — about a year and a half after the first vaccines were made available for vulnerable adults.
Children under 5 have had the highest rates of hospitalization from COVID among youth, per the CDC. State of play: Vaccine hesitancy is typically amplified among parents making decisions about their children's health, Blatt said.
"If a child is going to do something or we're going to do something to a child, a parent will always be more nervous if that child is younger, and we're seeing that with the COVID vaccine." Vaccine misinformation and insufficient communication about vaccinations are both contributing to the low rates, Peter Hotez, an infectious-disease physician and pediatrician at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told the Post. "We haven’t done a good job explaining the long-term developmental consequences of long covid for younger children," Hotez said. The bottom line: "We do lots of things for safety for children ... they wear bicycle helmets, they eat nutritious food, they get regular checkups," Blatt said.
"These are things that are part of a routine medical care, and COVID vaccines, just like other routine vaccinations, is just part of the whole picture to keep a child safe."
“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
I’m shocked at the incompetence of these experts.
Experts?
They keep using that word.
I don’t think it means what they think it means.
Hmmmm, heard that phrase somewhere......
Fixed it.
Nor have they bothered to point out that when children do get COVID it's because they are fat and/or type 2 diabetics because they're fat. Nor have they made an effort to emphasize that next to being elderly OBESITY and all the comorbidities that come with OBESITY is the number two risk factor for serious illness and death from COVID.
It’s mind blowing. I’m afraid to take a regular Vaccine now because of this. I used to make fun of people like myself.
Polio, Hepatitis, Diphtheria and other diseases that children are vaccinated for have terrible outcomes much of the time if contracted. Contracting Covid as a child does nothing, it's foolish to vaccinate a child for it.
This is great news! Praise our Lord so many children have not been poisoned!
“The states with some of the lowest child vaccination rates — Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi — have vaccination rates of less than 0.2%”
Large black population in those 3 states.....and a lot of black folks are historically suspicious of the federal government tampering with them medically.......and in this case at least, rightfully so.
People in general are done with this shot shit......it’s over.
‘Experts?
They keep using that word.
I don’t think it means what they think it means.’
Hmmmm, heard that phrase somewhere......
“Famous quotes for $100, Alex!
What is ‘The Pincess Bride?’”
I’m a little spooked myself. I trust the old technology.
But I don’t trust the companies that make the vaccines.
These evil sickos are DETERMINED to kill or compromise our kids, one way, or, another!!
Ping!
Meanwhile…UK has STOPPED giving these horrid $hots, to young kids….FINALLY.
And, this, from late last year….
UK sees 44% increase in child deaths after jab rollout for young teens, data shows
Life Site News ^ | 11/29/2021
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4016815/posts
Experts in making money….
Experts in compromising the health and immune systems of our kids….
IOW…..pure evil.
If most of America’s children DO get the COVID-19 mRNA injection, the “authorities” will be setting up a bunch of kids for risk of severe disease in the future. Pediatric myocarditis is a condition unheard of only a few short years ago. And it can affect the whole quality of life over whatever span that might be. And this is but one condition of many potential early-onset disorders out there.
Josef Mengele would be so proud. He only had the prisoners to work with. Here, the whole population of the US is considered to be lab rats.
Hey, haven’t you heard? Fat is the new healthy… and beautiful! As someone brilliantly quipped, SI should have called this issue “Comorbidity Illustrated”.
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Not sure what you call experts.
Is it like a “wheel” (important person?)
“Something that goes round and around and dogs wet on?”
I agree. Unless your kid is compromised by disease, obesity etc they do not need a covide shot. One day of felling like crap then they are OK. Gets GOOD doctor’s advice.
I think it is disgusting that the “experts” are allowed to get away with leaving this death inducing swill on the market.
The only reason , and I mean only reason it is still being pushed, is because the people pushing it face no liability or consequences for the death and damage.
We really have a sick society that sits back and allows this type of abuse of humanity. We yammer on about protecting and defending our families.
These shots are a bullet right to their heart and nothing can be done but count the dead.
actually she is an attractive voluptuous woman. whoever picked that horrible swimsuit was aching for a bad picture.
She would have looked lovely in a sexy two piece or one piece with a plunging neckline
There are large gorgeous women. They are sexy and desirable. My adopted daughter is one. With her waist length corkscrew curls, her soft brown skin, and shapely figure she is a goddess to those who like their women with shape and heft. Her husband adores her and she makes the most beautiful babies.
I do not deny the health concerns with increased weight. Although COVID was not a big problem for her or her family. But do not overlook the good.
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