Posted on 11/08/2021 8:33:55 AM PST by Mount Athos
A former surgeon at the John Hopkins Children’s Center is describing the Biden administration’s move to vaccinate young children for COVID-19 as a “giant experiment,” arguing there is no sufficient data to determine the long-term risks posed by the shots.
“Do we want to put our children at risk, when we know that the risk of the disease to them is relatively small, but we don’t know what the future risks are? Why would we do a thing like that? It makes no sense whatsoever,” said Dr. Ben Carson in a Sunday interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Carson, renowned for his innovative surgeries to save the lives of children, is former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. He previously served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Trump administration.
Bartiromo asked Carson whether or not young children should receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Absolutely not,” he replied.
The physician argued “the mortality rate for children from COVID-19 is 0.025, which is very similar to the rate for seasonal flu.”
“And we haven’t been for years and years going through all these things for seasonal flu,” he said.
Carson also pointed to studies showing natural immunity “is very, very effective.”
“You look at the Cleveland Clinic study, 1,300 of their health care workers who had been previously infected, none of them got reinfected,” he said.
“So, I know the CDC is coming out with their recommendations and trying to spin things their way. But we ought to look at all of the data,” he said.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet Tuesday to discuss clinical recommendations as a follow-up to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval last Friday of emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech in children ages 5 to 11 years old.
The approval came one week after an FDA advisory panel voted 17-0 to recommended the vaccine for young children, despite acknowledging the lack of safety data and the nearly 100% survival rate from infection.
Approval by the CDC will allow the Pfizer shot to be administered to young children in two doses separated by three weeks. The 5-11 year-olds are to receive a lower dosage, 10mcg, compared to the 30mcg given to those 12 and older.
The FDA said Friday the “vaccine’s safety was studied in approximately 3,100 children age 5 through 11 who received the vaccine and no serious side effects have been detected in the ongoing study.”
However, during the advisory committee meeting, Dr. Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, expressed the concern of many members about possible severe side effects that cannot yet be measured. He concluded, nevertheless, there was no other way forward.
“We’re never going to learn about how safe the vaccine is unless we start giving it,” he said. “That’s just the way it goes.”
Dr. Carson is supported in his opposition to child injections for COVID-19, with other health experts voicing their opinions on the matter.
Dr. Martin Kulldorf, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, member of FDA and CDC scientific advisory committees stated: “I don’t think children should be vaccinated for COVID. I’m a huge fan of vaccinating children for measles, for mumps, for polio, for rotavirus, and many other diseases, that’s critical. But COVID is not a huge threat to children.”
Dr. Harvey Risch, professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, had a clear vision of what he would do if schools mandate the vaccine. “If the child has chronic conditions that make their risk appreciable, then there is reason that they should be considered for vaccination. Other than that, if it were my child, I would (remove them from public school and) homeschool them,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist and professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, argued against injecting children, who were “unlikely to benefit” from such an intervention.
“At this stage, we should limit vaccination to the vulnerable and not target children (and possibly other young people) in COVID-19 vaccination strategies.” Children “are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination directly,” said Dr. Gupta, adding “the collective benefit would likely be very limited” and “we have already imposed very large costs on children during this pandemic through indiscriminate restrictions, using them as mere means to others’ ends.
Dr. Robert Malone, virologist and immunologist known for his work developing mRNA vaccine technology, declared “There is absolutely no scientific or medical justification for vaccinating children, in my opinion.”
Dump Dr. Fauci, now.
Dump Dr. Fauci, now.
And there is no need.
There is no disease in children necessitating this shot.
That unequivocal.
And bottom line.
I totally trust the wise judgement of Dr.Ben Carson.
And yet the sheeple parents in NYS stand in line to get their kids jabbed.
Can you remember Thalidomide?
Don’t listen to Ben. He’s the black face of white nationalism.
Fear. And obeisance.
I fear their fear.
I have been roundly criticized by this forum for my pro vax stands. Now when Dr. Carson speaks I will listen. To all you haters out there I have supported vaxes for senior citizens like myself. I have never supported mandates or universal vaxes for our children. I just know covid is a terrible way to die. I don’t want to lose anymore conservative spokesmen.
” a “giant experiment,” “
Exactly what I said to someone a few days ago whose grandson just got the shot. It’s one thing for older people & those who have health issues, but for healthy children, it’s absurd and an unnecessary risk.
*I totally trust the wise judgement of Dr.Ben Carson.*
So do I. He shoda spoke out sooner. Higher profile. Well known and liked.
“Don’t listen to Ben. He’s the black face of white nationalism.”
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That’s funny. And Doctor Carson is 100% correct. Absent comorbidities or other medical reason (e.g., immunodeficiency condition), there’s no reason why children should be given these shots. Unlike flu, which in children can be very severe, COVID-19 in children is usually mild or asymptomatic. In any case, this should be the PARENTS’ choice.
Not only is COVID19 not a huge threat to children but there is almost no evidence that children transmit this virus to the susceptible. the Scandanavian countries have stopped using the Moderna vaccine on post pubescent boys and young men due to an undue risk of myocarditis and the fact that COVID19 will cause serious illness in these groups. Vaccinating children on a large scale with these new mRNA vaccines is simply not wise. Sadly the CDC and the FDA are now led by political commissars and not credible, rational scientists.
NY does seem to have way over the normal number of idiots.
Is the main reason for inoculating children is so, if they symptomlessly or mildly get it, they can’t pass it onto adults?
So, they admit that this is an experiment and your children are lab rats.
Trying to imagine what all these people who vaxxed their kids are thinking after reading articles like this. And this warning by a brain surgeon. wow...
Personally speaking, without any clinical evidence to back up my contention, there will be significantly more casualties and ill-effects from the age 5-12 VAX program than there would ever be from the virus. A very bad idea. Governmental zealots.
The only voices that matter are ones insisting on the suppression and devolution of an individual right
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