Posted on 03/31/2021 3:33:20 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in that age group before they head back to school in the fall.
Most COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out worldwide are for adults, who are at higher risk from the coronavirus. Pfizer's vaccine is authorized for ages 16 and older. But vaccinating children of all ages will be critical to stopping the pandemic - and helping schools, at least the upper grades, start to look a little more normal after months of disruption.
In a study of 2,260 U.S. volunteers aged 12 to 15, preliminary data showed there were no cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated adolescents compared to 18 among those given placebo shots, Pfizer reported.
Pfizer said the study "demonstrated 100% efficacy and robust antibody responses, exceeding those recorded earlier in vaccinated participants aged 16 to 25 years old, and was well tolerated."
It's a small study and hasn't yet been published, so another important piece of evidence is how well the shots revved up the kids' immune systems. Researchers reported high levels of virus-fighting antibodies, somewhat higher than were seen in studies of young adults.
Kids had side effects similar to young adults, the company said. The main ones are pain, fever, chills and fatigue, particularly after the second dose. The study will continue to track participants for two years for more information about long-term protection and safety.
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech in the coming weeks plan to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European regulators to allow emergency use of the shots starting at age 12.
"We share the urgency to expand the use of our vaccine," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a statement. He expressed "the hope of starting to vaccinate this age group before the start of the next school year" in the United States.
BioNTech CEO and co-founder Ugur Sahin said in a statement that, "Across the globe, we are longing for a normal life. This is especially true for our children. The initial results we have seen in the adolescent studies suggest that children are particularly well protected by vaccination, which is very encouraging given the trends we have seen in recent weeks regarding the spread of the B.1.1.7 UK variant" first identified in Britain.
Pfizer isn't the only company seeking to lower the age limit for its vaccine. Results also are expected soon from a U.S. study of Moderna's vaccine in 12- to 17-year-olds.
But in a sign that the findings were promising, the FDA already allowed both companies to begin U.S. studies in children 11 and younger, working their way to as young as 6-month-old.
AstraZeneca last month began a study of its vaccine among 6- to 17-year-olds in Britain. Johnson & Johnson is planning its own pediatric studies. And in China, Sinovac recently announced it has submitted preliminary data to Chinese regulators showing its vaccine is safe in children as young as 3.
While most COVID-19 vaccines being used globally were first tested in tens of thousands of adults, pediatric studies won't need to be nearly as large. Scientists have safety information from those studies and from subsequent vaccinations in millions more adults.
One key question is the dosage: Pfizer gave the 12-and-older participants the same dose adults receive, while testing different doses in younger children.
It's not clear how quickly the FDA would act on Pfizer's request to allow vaccination starting at age 12. Another question is when the country would have enough supply of shots - and people to get them into adolescents' arms - to let kids start getting in line.
Supplies are set to steadily increase over the spring and summer, at the same time states are opening vaccinations to younger, healthier adults who until now haven't had a turn.
Children represent about 13% of COVID-19 cases documented in the U.S. And while children are far less likely than adults to get seriously ill, at least 268 have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. and more than 13,500 have been hospitalized, according to a tally by the American Academy of Pediatrics. That's more than die from the flu in an average year. In addition, a small number have developed a serious inflammatory condition linked to the coronavirus.
And what kind of sick parents allow potentially dangerous drugs to be tested on their children? Oh right, Socialist parents.
What would you expect them to say??
Makes me glad I don’t have any grandchildren to be brain-washed, or injected with this $hit.
A new bunch of lab rats is about to undergo a field test and experimentation. What is this, about like Stage Two of the testing?
Hmm. Any mention of what the FDA says?
Prevnar was approved in 2010, it’s had 27000 adverse reaction reports, 314 of those are death. It’s been in use for 11 years.
Now let’s look at the adverse reaction reports for the covid vaccines, which have been given over the last five months. There have been 44,464 adverse reaction reports, death is 1627 of those.
The covid vaccines adverse reaction reports are running 1.65-1 over prevnar, and the deaths are running 5.18 over prevnar, in just five months!!
AND unnecessary.
The VAERS report for the all the diphtheria vaccines grouped together shows 482 deaths since 1980, from DECADES of them being used.
The covid vaccines hit 3.38 times that number - in five months.
Unless your kid is immune compromised, you gotta be a sick sick person to give this thing to your kids. Take it for yourself....... that’s all good. You are an adult. But the kids? They aren’t making this choice for themselves.
Kids are already safe. They don’t need a stupid vaccine like this.
Unreal.
“They aren’t making this choice for themselves.”
But they CAN make the choice to undergo operations and use puberty-blocking drugs to pretend they are the other sex.
| Total | 4,972 | |
|---|---|---|
| DEATH | Total | 4,972 |
| DEATH | COVID19 (COVID19 (MODERNA)) (1201) | 871 |
| DEATH | COVID19 (COVID19 (PFIZER-BIONTECH)) (1200) | 794 |
| DEATH | PNEUMO (PREVNAR13) (1141) | 314 |
| DEATH | ROTAVIRUS (ROTATEQ) (1096) | 248 |
| DEATH | DTAP + HEPB + IPV (PEDIARIX) (1082) | 198 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (NO BRAND NAME) (44) | 182 |
| DEATH | PNEUMO (PREVNAR) (1001) | 171 |
| DEATH | HPV (GARDASIL) (1098) | 167 |
| DEATH | DTAP + IPV + HIB (PENTACEL) (1125) | 160 |
| DEATH | HIB (ACTHIB) (256) | 120 |
| DEATH | ZOSTER LIVE (ZOSTAVAX) (1097) | 119 |
| DEATH | HIB (PEDVAXHIB) (129) | 108 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE) (7) | 89 |
| DEATH | PNEUMO (PNEUMOVAX) (30) | 79 |
| DEATH | MEASLES + MUMPS + RUBELLA (MMR II) (26) | 74 |
| DEATH | HEP B (ENGERIX-B) (38) | 73 |
| DEATH | HEP B (RECOMBIVAX HB) (25) | 66 |
| DEATH | VARICELLA (VARIVAX) (269) | 66 |
| DEATH | ROTAVIRUS (ROTARIX) (1124) | 65 |
| DEATH | DTAP (DAPTACEL) (1064) | 47 |
| DEATH | VACCINE NOT SPECIFIED (NO BRAND NAME) (999) | 46 |
| DEATH | ZOSTER (SHINGRIX) (1192) | 44 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE HIGH-DOSE) (1145) | 43 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE QUADRIVALENT) (1162) | 41 |
| DEATH | POLIO VIRUS, INACT. (IPOL) (1030) | 41 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUVIRIN) (262) | 37 |
| DEATH | HEP A (HAVRIX) (268) | 33 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (H1N1) (H1N1 (MONOVALENT) (SANOFI)) (1132) | 30 |
| DEATH | MENINGOCOCCAL CONJUGATE (MENACTRA) (1090) | 29 |
| DEATH | DTAP (INFANRIX) (286) | 27 |
| DEATH | HPV (NO BRAND NAME) (1102) | 25 |
| DEATH | TDAP (ADACEL) (1092) | 24 |
| DEATH | MENINGOCOCCAL (NO BRAND NAME) (113) | 23 |
| DEATH | HEP B (NO BRAND NAME) (110) | 23 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUARIX QUADRIVALENT) (1161) | 21 |
| DEATH | HEP A (VAQTA) (280) | 21 |
| DEATH | HPV (GARDASIL 9) (1170) | 19 |
| DEATH | DTAP (NO BRAND NAME) (258) | 18 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (H1N1) (H1N1 (MONOVALENT) (NOVARTIS)) (1133) | 17 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLULAVAL) (1101) | 16 |
| DEATH | PNEUMO (NO BRAND NAME) (120) | 16 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUMIST) (1085) | 16 |
| DEATH | TDAP (BOOSTRIX) (1091) | 16 |
| DEATH | HIB (HIBERIX) (916) | 13 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (AFLURIA) (1121) | 13 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (H1N1) (H1N1 (MONOVALENT) (UNKNOWN)) (1135) | 13 |
| DEATH | COVID19 (COVID19 (JANSSEN)) (1203) | 13 |
| DEATH | MEASLES + MUMPS + RUBELLA + VARICELLA (PROQUAD) (1094) | 12 |
| DEATH | DTP (NO BRAND NAME) (2) | 12 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE HIGH-DOSE QUADRIVALENT) (1199) | 11 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUARIX) (1089) | 10 |
| DEATH | HIB (NO BRAND NAME) (111) | 10 |
| DEATH | TDAP (NO BRAND NAME) (1104) | 9 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (H1N1) (H1N1 (MONOVALENT) (MEDIMMUNE)) (1131) | 9 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (QIV DRESDEN) (1187) | 9 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLULAVAL QUADRIVALENT) (1166) | 8 |
| DEATH | POLIO VIRUS, INACT. (NO BRAND NAME) (232) | 8 |
| DEATH | VACCINE NOT SPECIFIED (OTHER) (998) | 7 |
| DEATH | DTAP + IPV (KINRIX) (1126) | 7 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUMIST QUADRIVALENT) (1160) | 7 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (AFLURIA QUADRIVALENT) (1177) | 6 |
| DEATH | HIB + HEP B (COMVAX) (287) | 6 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUAD) (1173) | 6 |
| DEATH | MEASLES + MUMPS + RUBELLA (NO BRAND NAME) (114) | 6 |
| DEATH | ROTAVIRUS (NO BRAND NAME) (1099) | 6 |
| DEATH | COVID19 (COVID19 (UNKNOWN)) (1202) | 6 |
| DEATH | YELLOW FEVER (YF-VAX) (14) | 6 |
| DEATH | DTAP (TRIPEDIA) (242) | 5 |
| DEATH | ZOSTER (NO BRAND NAME) (1103) | 5 |
| DEATH | HEP B (FOREIGN) (24) | 5 |
| DEATH | HEP A + HEP B (TWINRIX) (1009) | 5 |
| DEATH | POLIO VIRUS, ORAL (NO BRAND NAME) (118) | 5 |
| DEATH | TD ADSORBED (NO BRAND NAME) (11) | 5 |
| DEATH | ANTHRAX (BIOTHRAX) (1008) | 5 |
| DEATH | MENINGOCOCCAL B (BEXSERO) (1165) | 5 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUCELVAX QUADRIVALENT) (1175) | 4 |
| DEATH | TYPHOID VI POLYSACCHARIDE (TYPHIM VI) (271) | 4 |
| DEATH | TETANUS TOXOID (NO BRAND NAME) (12) | 4 |
| DEATH | MENINGOCOCCAL CONJUGATE (MENVEO) (1140) | 4 |
| DEATH | MENINGOCOCCAL (MENOMUNE) (8) | 4 |
| DEATH | DTAP+IPV+HEPB+HIB (NO BRAND NAME) (1111) | 3 |
| DEATH | BCG (NO BRAND NAME) (102) | 3 |
| DEATH | RABIES (NO BRAND NAME) (57) | 3 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUBLOK QUADRIVALENT) (1176) | 3 |
| DEATH | HEP A (NO BRAND NAME) (279) | 3 |
| DEATH | YELLOW FEVER (NO BRAND NAME) (224) | 3 |
| DEATH | MEASLES (ATTENUVAX) (28) | 2 |
| DEATH | MEASLES + MUMPS + RUBELLA + VARICELLA (NO BRAND NAME) (1106) | 2 |
| DEATH | VARICELLA (NO BRAND NAME) (1062) | 2 |
| DEATH | POLIO VIRUS, INACT. (POLIOVAX) (9) | 2 |
| DEATH | LYME (LYMERIX) (302) | 2 |
| DEATH | RABIES (IMOVAX) (33) | 2 |
| DEATH | DT ADSORBED (NO BRAND NAME) (3) | 2 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUCELVAX) (1159) | 2 |
| DEATH | DTAP + IPV + HIB (NO BRAND NAME) (1149) | 2 |
| DEATH | ADENOVIRUS TYPES 4 & 7, LIVE, ORAL (NO BRAND NAME) (1155) | 1 |
| DEATH | HEP B (HEPLISAV-B) (1193) | 1 |
| DEATH | PERTUSSIS (NO BRAND NAME) (60) | 1 |
| DEATH | RABIES (RABAVERT) (294) | 1 |
| DEATH | DTAP + HIB (NO BRAND NAME) (285) | 1 |
| DEATH | PNEUMO (PNU-IMUNE) (16) | 1 |
| DEATH | DTP + HIB (NO BRAND NAME) (263) | 1 |
| DEATH | HEP A + HEP B (NO BRAND NAME) (1114) | 1 |
| DEATH | DTAP + HEPB + IPV (NO BRAND NAME) (1110) | 1 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLU-IMUNE) (201) | 1 |
| DEATH | MUMPS (MUMPSVAX II) (1018) | 1 |
| DEATH | DTP + HEP B (NO BRAND NAME) (1112) | 1 |
| DEATH | TD ADSORBED (TENIVAC) (1158) | 1 |
| DEATH | HIB POLYSACCHARIDE (HIBIMUNE) (23) | 1 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUZONE INTRADERMAL) (1152) | 1 |
| DEATH | SMALLPOX (ACAM2000) (1122) | 1 |
| DEATH | VARICELLA (VARILRIX) (1048) | 1 |
| DEATH | HIB (HIBTITER) (35) | 1 |
| DEATH | TYPHOID LIVE ORAL TY21A (VIVOTIF) (81) | 1 |
| DEATH | HPV (CERVARIX) (1136) | 1 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUENZ) (1190) | 1 |
| DEATH | MENINGOCOCCAL B (TRUMENBA) (1169) | 1 |
| DEATH | SMALLPOX (NO BRAND NAME) (10) | 1 |
| DEATH | DTP + HIB (DTP + ACTHIB) (1024) | 1 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (H1N1) (H1N1 (MONOVALENT) (CSL)) (1134) | 1 |
| DEATH | INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUAD QUADRIVALENT) (1198) | 1 |
I’m very pro vaccine for people 55+ years older than these 12- to 15-year-olds, who want to be vaccinated.
There is zero need/logic/reason for kids 12-10 to get these shots.
Are these the illegal kids coming across our borders to Biden Country, the real targets here?
Is this a sop for the teacher’s unions?
Just look at the older Freepers posting here, not able to get appts or their first shot and often their second shot.
Or their second shot is approaching and so far, no place to go for their second shot.
Who give a flying Fig.
That age group is not at risk, statistically
Now, how many people will refuse the vaccine when they are told their job depends on it?
How many people will refuse to vaccinate their kids when told they have to for them to be admitted to school?
Let me be the first to congratulate the company for testing the long term (five year, ten year, twenty year) affect of the vaccine in less than a year.
It is a miracle!
“Science” loves miracles.
And stupid parents....you wouldn’t believe the number of people just listen to news soundbites to make their decisions.
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