Posted on 01/26/2022 11:55:18 AM PST by Enlightened1
The White House said Wednesday that the COVID-19 vaccine regime for kids younger than 4 years old will likely be three doses when it’s approved — and vowed to make millions more hard-to-find Pfizer anti-viral pills available in coming months.
Two clinical trials of the Pfizer vaccine on children ages 6 months to 2 years old, and ages 2 to 4 are underway, but the older group hasn’t yet met standards, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a press conference.
“Dose and regimen for children 6 months to 24 months worked well, but it turned out the other group from 24 months to 4 years did not yet reach the level of non-inferiority, so the studies are continued,” Fauci said, referencing effectiveness standard comparison to adults.
“It looks like it will be a three-dose regimen. I don’t think we can predict when we will see it [approved],” he said — adding he can’t speak for the Food and Drug Administration.
“We need to be patient,” he said. “That’s why the system works. The FDA is very scrupulous in their ability and in their effort to make sure that, before something gets approved for any age, and especially with children … that they will be safe, and that they will be effective.”
Meanwhile, White House officials promised to release millions more Pfizer antiviral pills by June, amid reports that the medicine has been difficult to find in recent weeks.
“We’ve purchased 20 million treatment courses of the Pfizer pill and we accelerated delivery of the first 10 million from September to the end of June,” said White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients.
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UCSF Doctors Say It’s Time to End ‘Mindless’ Covid Rules in Open Letter to Gov. Newsom, (Ridiculous Response from CA Tyrant’s)by Kevin Truong
Four doctors, including the director of Covid response for UCSF Medical Center’s emergency department, are calling on state leaders to acknowledge the transition of Covid to an endemic disease and lift most masking policies for school-aged children.
The petition was first circulated Friday and currently has more than 9,500 signatures. It includes a strongly-worded open letter to Gov. Newsom and state public health and education leaders, and it notes that “restrictive policies … have long lost their justification as necessary for prevention of serious illness and death.”
The letter focuses on the negative effect the state’s policies have on children and teens, particularly the mental health and developmental impacts caused by social isolation and masking.
Covid-related hospitalizations in San Francisco have reached their highest point, although the 7-day average of new cases dropped from their peak earlier this month.
Dr. Jeanne Noble, an associate professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and director of Covid response for the UCSF Parnassus Emergency Department, told The Standard we are at an inflection point where public health officials should weigh how to respond once the current wave passes.
“We felt it was necessary to really put this forth as we saw the Omicron cases peak and now enter their descent,” said Noble, adding that hospitalizations have started to drop at UCSF. “Throughout this pandemic we’ve looked at our children primarily through the lens of disease control or as vectors of disease. Now, we would like to get kids first in line to enjoy the benefit of peeling back Covid restrictions.”
Other signatories of the letter include UCSF epidemiologist Dr. Vinay Prasad, UCSF surgeon and bioengineer Dr. Jarrett Moyer and Dr. Jennifer Nguyen, a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.
The California Public Health Department said in a statement responding to the letter that “vaccinations, boosters and masking remain our most effective tools in the fight against Covid-19” and pointed to their role in keeping schools and businesses open.
However, the department added that “policies must continue to adapt as the situation with the virus changes” and said to expect updates to the state’s Covid policies once the Omicron surge subsides.
Noble drew a clear distinction between patients hospitalized “for” Covid versus those admitted “with” Covid. According to UCSF data, 31% of UCSF’s admitted adult Covid patients were there for unrelated medical issues. The proportion among pediatric patients was 40%
Among the specific policies the petition calls for are immediately allowing school children to unmask while outdoors, making masking optional indoors at schools by Feb. 24 (12 weeks after the last public school child becomes eligible for vaccination) and immediately allowing preschool and daycare teachers and students to unmask.
The letter also calls for an end to “mindless” testing of asymptomatic individuals, which some health care professionals say leads to staffing shortages due to isolation requirements.
With Covid widespread and endemic in the population, Noble said, society should be taking similar precautions to other common respiratory diseases like the flu.
“We don’t do massive testing for the flu and try to pick up every left asymptomatic, or mildly symptomatic case and send that person home,” Noble said. “The argument for chasing down asymptomatic cases and blocking transmission is really to prevent serious illness and death. We really don’t care about preventing runny noses and sore throats.
Covid is a mild, non-threatening disease for the majority of people.”
Moving forward, the petition calls for state leaders to take a “cost-benefit approach for future Covid restrictions, without disproportionately prioritizing prevention of COVID-19 transmission above all other health considerations.”
Future Covid protection policies, like regular boosters, should be targeted for those who are most vulnerable of dying or suffering serious illness from the virus.
The petition was organized by Laura Chinnavaso, a registered nurse with Alameda County who fills in at nursing homes and hospitals facing staffing shortages. Chinnavaso said she was inspired to start the petition advocating for looser restrictions because of the impact she’s seen on her four school-age children.
“Everything I’ve done on this has been through the lens of a parent who watched this affect my children, like my 3-year-old who doesn’t remember a world before the virus or before masking,” Chinnavaso said.
Chinnavaso and Noble said they both understand the tendency to be cautious about the virus and recommend individuals speak to their own doctor to figure out what is best for them.
“What we need is just the lifting of mandates. We don’t need to force people to take off their masks or socialize or do anything that they feel is out of their comfort zone,” Noble said. “But I think to begin the transition towards normality, we have to stop prohibiting normal social interactions. And then the rest will follow suit.”
Kevin Truong can be reached at kevin@sfstandard.com.
When are parents across this land, who love their children and not hate them, going to shut this baby killer, Faucci, down and remove him from any power?
I hope hell has a special place for people like him.
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What brain washed parent would allow this?
I perused the FDA website and cannot find ANY clinical data or efficacy testing to back-up this "ineffectiveness" claim. However, in the EUA memo for REGEN-COV® the Efficacy was about 70%. For the shots, the FDA's minimum threshold was 50% Efficacy. So let's just assume, for now, REGEN-COV® fell below 50%, and that is grounds for removing the EUA.
Let's visit the shots, and see ON ADULTS how THEY do in PREVENTING (prevention was the basis of granting the EUA...not lessened symptoms, or keeping you out of the hospital or ground) Omicron: The 2-dose VE against omicron infection was 30.4% (5.0%-49.0%) at 14-90 days and declined quickly to 15.2% (0.0%-30.7%) at 91-180 days and 0.0% after 180 days.
Now, riddle me this, Batman: how is it that the shots haven't had their EUA revoked despite proven and published "ineffectiveness" against Omicron, and now we will subject children to these "ineffective" shots, but REGEN-COV®'s undocumented "ineffectiveness" gets it yanked?
The riddle is answered by Grampa Dave - none of this is about health.
His children and grandchildren not mine. I wouldn’t try it on mine if I were him.
Move to Oklahoma.
TBH, if the mRNA tech had actually worked as hoped with a minimal adverse event profile, most of us would have been thrilled.
As it is, it quickly became apparent the “experts” were and are still trying to put lipstick on a pig.
On top of all the other shots they get in their little tiny bodies.
Today the news reported that a child under 10 had just died of Covid in both MD and VA. It was not clear to me if they were vaccinated or unvaccinated.
Maybe he’s planning to rip out their vocal cords at the same time.
The magazine cover we’d all love to see!
What about heart problems null.. you know that number's waaaay up too.
Yeah, but for some reason, that nummer isn’t reported... 🤔
Regarding the genetic COVID vaccines, the science is settled.
They are not working, and they are not completely safe.
Now we have Omicron. These vaccines were designed for the Original Wuhan strain, a different virus. Whether they made sense for protecting our elderly and frail from the original virus is irrelevant. So let’s stop arguing about that. We must look forward.
These vaccines do not prevent Omicron infection, viral replication, or spread to others. In our daily lives, with our friends, with our families, we all know that this is true.
These genetic vaccines are leaky, have poor durability, and even if every man, woman, and child in the United States were vaccinated, these products cannot achieve herd immunity and stop COVID. They are not completely safe, and the full nature of the risks remain unknown. In contrast, the natural immunity which healty immune systems develop after infection and recovery from COVID is long lasting, broad, and highly protective from disease and death caused by this virus.
If there is risk, there must be choice.
This is the fundamental bedrock truth of modern bioethics.
All medical procedures, vaccines, and drugs have risks.
All of us have the right to understand those risks, and to decide for ourselves whether we willingly accept those risks.
To deny this is to deny human dignity.
Evil has many roots. A willingness to deny human dignity is one of the largest. In our hearts, and in our souls, we all know this is true.
Integrity, Dignity, Community!
Robert W Malone MD, MS
Jan 23, 2022
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God... Please strike this bastard down right now. We need a sign before we lose faith in your power to do what is right. This has all gone on far to long. Enough, show us, do something...
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