Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19 After These Studies Is Insane

Politicians and bureaucrats from agencies with evidence of capture by Big Pharma should not be making population-wide health recommendations. The first group is subject to the whims of public sentiment, which have no place in individual healthcare decisions. The latter have unknown motives requiring serious investigation by our elected representatives to reform the health bureaucracy and redirect its activities back to the original mission. The insistence of both of these groups that children get vaccinated against COVID-19 is a case in point.

New data from the New York State Department of Health shows protection from the Pfizer mRNA vaccine against infection in children aged 5 to 17 declines significantly against the omicron variant in a single month. For the youngest cohort approved for vaccination, children aged 5 to 11, the vaccine is only 65% effective against infection within two weeks of vaccination. After 28 to 34 days, the vaccine effectiveness drops to 12%. For adolescents 12-17, it drops from 76% to 56% in the same period.

The study can’t measure the effectiveness against death from COVID-19 in these age groups. Unless they have severe pre-existing conditions, children have almost no risk of death from any variant of the virus, and omicron is less deadly than previous variants. These facts are why many clinicians and parents question the wisdom of vaccinating children at all. However, they did not prevent mediocre politicians like California Gov. Gavin Newsom from mandating the vaccines for children. They also did not stop the politically compromised FDA and CDC from issuing an emergency use authorization and recommending their use.

It would be hilarious if it were not so infuriating that the authors of the study still recommend vaccination in these age groups. The authors wrote :

In the Omicron era, the effectiveness against cases of BNT162b2 declined rapidly for children, particularly those 5-11 years. However, vaccination of children 5-11 years was protective against severe disease and is recommended.

“What severe disease?” is the next logical question. According to the CDC’s COVID Net, which covers approximately 10% of the U.S. population, the weekly case counts for children between the ages of 5 and 17 during the entire pandemic never broke 200. The highest level of lab-confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations recorded was 168:

According to the data from New York, vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization for children aged 5-11 dropped from 100% to 48%. Hospitalization rates in this age group are so low that the confidence interval, or the range of values for vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization in children this age, is 12% to 75%. The researchers note:

During this highest-incidence period, including for severe disease, for children, there were still relatively few children admissions. Additional data are needed to fully understand VE [vaccine effectiveness] trends against severe disease.

You can only get additional data if children get severely ill. This has not happened in large numbers anywhere in the world since March of 2022. Everyone should thank God for that. It is also unclear whether the researchers discounted pediatric hospitalizations where COVID-19 was not the admission diagnosis. Public reporting overestimates hospitalization and death rates thanks to incidental testing of all inpatients. In two studies in California, researchers found that pediatric admissions were inflated by approximately 40%. Even Dr. Fauci admitted most children get admitted to the hospital for something other than COVID-19.

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