Posted on 08/19/2023 2:21:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The bivalent COVID-19 vaccines broadened the level of protection against emergency department (ED) or urgent care visits for kids 6 months to age 5, a CDC study found.
In children of this age who had completed their primary series, a single dose of either bivalent mRNA shot yielded a vaccine effectiveness of 80% (95% CI 42-96) against ED or urgent care visits compared with no vaccination, reported researchers led by Ruth Link-Gelles, PhD, of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
"However, few children had received a bivalent dose, so the estimate was imprecise," the researchers cautioned in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reportopens in a new tab or window. "In addition, the median interval since receipt of the bivalent dose was only 58 days, meaning there was little time for waning to be observed."
Still, the protection with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna's bivalent products surpassed that seen with the monovalent vaccines alone.
A single monovalent dose (an incomplete series) showed no protection, with vaccine effectiveness ranging from just 7% with the Pfizer vaccine to 23% with Moderna's shot; in both cases, the 95% confidence intervals included null values.
With a complete series (two doses for Moderna in kids 6 months to 5 years and three doses for Pfizer in kids 6 months to 4 years), effectiveness increased to 29% to 43% for the two products, respectively. But effectiveness waned, dropping from a high of 46% to 70% in the first 2 months following vaccination to 21% to 24% beyond that point.
"Of note, the predominantly circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants had evolved substantially from the strain included in the original monovalent COVID-19 vaccines by the time young children became eligibleopens in a new tab or window, highlighting the importance of receiving an updated vaccine," wrote Link-Gelles and colleagues.
But vaccine uptake in this population has been paltry, with the researchers noting that just 6.1% of children in this age group had completed their primary series vaccination by May 2023, nearly a year since the two vaccines were first authorized.
Their case-control study came from ED or urgent care visits at six sites across eight U.S. states in the VISION Network and included nearly 100,000 immunocompetent children ages 6 months to 5 years presenting with COVID-like illness from July 2022 to June 2023. All children had to have been tested for SARS-CoV-2 in the 2 weeks before a visit or within 3 days of the visit, and vaccine effectiveness was evaluated starting at 2 weeks after vaccination.
The Moderna monovalent analysis included 90,905 ED or urgent care visits among kids 6 months to 5 years of age (5.4% were case patients, the rest controls), whereas the Pfizer monovalent analysis include 81,077 ED or urgent care visits among kids 6 months to 4 years of age (5.7% case patients).
The bivalent analysis include an additional 96 patients (all control patients) who had received a dose of the Moderna product and 222 patients who received a dose of the updated Pfizer vaccine (including three case patients). For this analysis, only children with a complete primary series were included.
Overall, 6.6% of case patients had received at least one dose of a monovalent vaccine as compared with 12.1% of controls. When it came to the bivalent product, these rates were 0.4% and 0.06%, respectively.
A main limitation cited by the researchers involved the relatively low virus circulation during the study period, which combined with the few hospitalizations in this age group meant vaccine effectiveness against more serious outcomes could not be evaluated.
Ian Ingram is Managing Editor at MedPage Today and helps cover oncology for the site.
Translation: you dirt people aren’t dying fast enough.
Yeah, uh-huh, right.
Ain’t that an interesting way to lower the standard of their vaccines. First it was 100% effective in stopping kung flu. Then 80 then 70 then 50, then useless. BUT NOW... They are claiming to prove something which can’t be proven. Just like Obamas “jobs saved or created.”
still going after the children
they want it on the child schedule
so their legal immunity will continue
There are still plenty of suckers, although I don’t know any of them.
The greatest benefit is to keep up the ca$h flow to Fauxcy and Big Pharma.
So you’re kid is 80% less likely to go to the ER which what percentage of kids with normal metabolism ever need to go to an ER?
“… A main limitation cited by the researchers involved the relatively low virus circulation during the study period, which combined with the few hospitalizations in this age group meant vaccine effectiveness against more serious outcomes could not be evaluated.…”
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I’ve always felt that the COVID-19 vaccine could be beneficial for the elderly and those with impaired immune systems (for the initial shots but not for endless series of vaccines targeting new variants). For anyone else, the vaccine would be not helpful and could VERY potentially have adverse consequences.
NATURAL IMMUNITY WILL ALWAYS BE BEST.
For anyone else curious, on the parent company...
https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=ZD
You’ll see the usual suspects.
And only an insignificant number of them die or are maimed by the new clot shot.
I just don’t believe those claims. Should I?
PING TO THREAD
Excerpt from filthy lying article implying it’s ‘safe and effective’:
“”However, few children had received a bivalent dose, so the estimate was imprecise,” the researchers cautioned in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reportopens in a new tab or window. “In addition, the median interval since receipt of the bivalent dose was only 58 days, meaning there was little time for waning to be observed.” “
ransomnote: What are they basing their efficacy on? VAERS? The CDC delayed entry of adverse reactions by months when the Covid ‘vax’ rolled out, so there could be reports of terrible adverse reactions received but not yet published to VAERS.
Even mild adverse reactions reported to VAERS are weaponized - the CDC says that any report to VAERS will not be updated. ALl those people who had ER visits for the original Covid vax? Well if they died, VAERS was not updated to reflect that. SO, if a child has a rash and it’s entered as a record into VAERS, according to CDC text, if the child’s condition worsens or the child dies, it won’t be updated in VAERS.
In the first Covid vax rollout, I was reading many records by pharmacies reporting that the vaxxed a child under the age limit required but specifying there was no negative reaction. I wondered why they did this when VAERS was underreported for COvid ‘vaccines’ in general. But then, if they vax people ‘too young’ and put a placeholder record in VAERS for that patient, according to CDC rules the record will not be updated. So who knows what happened to the kids?
If it’s a CDC study then you know the big pharm criminals bought them off.
Child abuse.
🙄
CDC aka Comical Dork Conglomerate
The Covid vaccines were very good for children, with the exception of those babies who died from SIDS, and the young teens who died of heart attacks. Oh, and let us not forget those children who have now been diagnosed with aggressive cancers. And the issues for women in menstruation and miscarriage problems that young females may have to deal with in the future. Other than those small medical issues, making sure your children are vaccinated for Covid is the best thing you can do for their health. /s
CDC and Pfizer Employees, I have nothing good to say or any wishes that are positive.
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