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NIH-Funded Study Does not Offer Great News for Covid-19 Vaccinated Children
Townhall ^ | 09/19/2022 | Spencer Brown

Posted on 09/19/2022 10:56:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A new study conducted by public health researchers at the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services uncovered new information on the efficacy of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in young people age 5 to 11.

The research, funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, found that against the omicron variant of COVID-19, children in the study group ended up seeing negative — yes, negative — effectiveness some 20 weeks after being vaccinated after peaking between 60 and 70 percent effectiveness.

The large cohort study tracked a 6-month window of time during which omicron was the dominant strain to see what protection was given by the Pfizer vaccine and by previous COVID infection — also known as acquired immunity — against COVID infection or COVID-related hospitalization and/or death.

As notes accompanying the study's publication in the New England Journal of Medicine explain, researchers looked at 887,193 children in the 5 to 11 age group among which 273,157 received at least one dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine and 193,346 became infected with COVID. Of the positive cases, 309 were known to be hospitalized and 7 were known to have died, according to the study's authors. 

Among the conclusions researchers drew from their study, the Pfizer vaccine was less effective against omicron than it was the earlier delta variant while a combination of acquired immunity from previous COVID infection combined with vaccine-induced immunity offered the best protection:

Among previously uninfected children, vaccine effectiveness reached 63.2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 61.0 to 65.2) at 4 weeks after the first dose and decreased to 15.5% (95% CI, 8.1 to 22.8) at 16 weeks; among previously infected children, vaccine effectiveness reached 69.6% (95% CI, 57.4 to 78.3) at 4 weeks after the first dose and decreased to 22.4% (95% CI, 13.0 to 30.8) at 16 weeks

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The immunity acquired from SARS-CoV-2 infection was high, although it waned over time. Among unvaccinated children, the estimated effectiveness of omicron infection against reinfection with omicron was 90.7% (95% CI, 89.2 to 92.0) at 2 months and 62.9% (95% CI, 58.8 to 66.6) at 4 months (Figure 1C and Table S4). Among vaccinated children, the estimated effectiveness of omicron infection alone against reinfection with omicron was 94.3% (95% CI, 91.6 to 96.1) at 2 months and 79.4% (95% CI, 73.8 to 83.8) at 4 months.

Charts accompanying the survey show the effectiveness of vaccination among children who were previously uninfected and those who had COVID and received the Pfizer vaccine. 

As can be seen (panel B, below), the effectiveness for all waned over time until it dipped into negative effectiveness at 20 to 22 weeks post-vaccination. That means vaccinated children in the cohort were more likely to become infected with COVID than their unvaccinated counterparts.

The researchers data is accompanied in the NEJM by notes on limitations in their study including "unmeasured confounding and underreporting of Covid-19 cases" while "waning effects of both vaccination and previous infection may have been confounded by earlier infection and earlier vaccination in high-risk children." The study also notes that "differential ascertainment of Covid-19 cases between vaccinated and unvaccinated children would bias the estimation of vaccine effectiveness."



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: children; covid; nih; vaccination

1 posted on 09/19/2022 10:56:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

You are a brain washed idiot if you vax your 7 year old.


2 posted on 09/19/2022 11:03:20 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: grey_whiskers; Jane Long; metmom

PING


3 posted on 09/19/2022 11:10:50 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: SeekAndFind

US: have fewer children, keep them out of school and dumb them down, send them to an early grave with a deadly but mandated serum.


4 posted on 09/19/2022 11:13:27 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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5 posted on 09/19/2022 11:31:47 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: SeekAndFind

According to the Dark Horse podcast of real scientists, the all-cause death statistics at the five month point in vaccinated vs non-vaccinated is horrendous. “Unknown Cause” beats out all other causes of death combined regardless of age group. We won’t know the true destruction caused by the vaccination religion for decades.


6 posted on 09/19/2022 12:56:08 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: SeekAndFind

Giving vaccines to people less that 21 years old is criminal


7 posted on 09/19/2022 1:36:39 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: SeekAndFind

Remember that the results of their study are the results of a rigged study. I would suspect that the actual results were negative once the real adverse effects are added in which do not contain one iota of long term side effects and permanent damage.


8 posted on 09/19/2022 2:03:46 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: SeekAndFind
Are we supposed to be surprised ?
No wonder the FDA/CDC wanted to keep hiding the clinical trials of the Pfizer covid injection for 74 years

" The research, funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, found that against the omicron variant of COVID-19,
children in the study group ended up seeing negative — yes,
negative — effectiveness some 20 weeks after being vaccinated
(Emphasis mine)
after peaking between 60 and 70 percent effectiveness."

9 posted on 09/19/2022 5:08:51 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: SeekAndFind

Naomi Wolf

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/destroying-women-poisoning-breast


10 posted on 09/19/2022 5:15:17 PM PDT by combat_boots
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It is worse than even that. Take a look at Graphs C and D with an eye on the the blue lines in the study. Based on a side by side comparison, the vax appears to actually erase any resistance to infection persistence benefits gained from a prior infection. Once vaxxed, the kids’ immune systems get wrecked, acting as if they were never infected and only vaxxed. Then, like any vaxxed resistance, the vaxxed kids’ resistances fall like a rock after a short time.


11 posted on 09/20/2022 5:24:43 AM PDT by KnowoneofConsequence
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