Posted on 11/09/2021 10:33:57 AM PST by Heartlander
Following the CDC’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine for young children, scientists and physicians at a summit in Florida warned against a rush to vaccinate a population with very little chance of severe infection from the coronavirus.
The Florida Summit on Covid in Ocala on Saturday addressed three big questions, reported Mary Beth Pfeiffer for TrialSite News. Do young children need vaccination against COVID? Are the vaccinations safe? Are unvaccinated children a threat to adults?
On each question, the physicians and researchers challenged the federal government’s conclusions, pointing to studies and data.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over the course of the pandemic — from Jan. 1, 2020, to Nov. 3, 2021 — 576 children under age 18 died of COVID-19 in a population of about 74 million, which statistically means there is zero risk of death. Further, the CDC’s record of deaths attributed to COVID-19 doesn’t tell the whole story. A study of 48,000 COVID-infected children under 18 found no deaths were reported among those without comorbidities, or underlying chronic conditions, such as leukemia or obesity.
That means healthy children did not die of COVID, argued the speakers at the Florida summit, and they, therefore, don’t need to be vaccinated.
Meanwhile, the potential toll of vaccinating children is unacceptably high, they said. Among the risks is myocarditis, which has been found in studies to be three to six times the expected rate in vaccinated adolescents. A CDC study reported 14 vaccine-related deaths and 849 serious reactions in children 12 to 17 years old.
But the push to vaccinate young children is in full swing
On Twitter, the Muppet character Big Bird declared Saturday, “I got the COVID-19 vaccine today! My wing is feeling a little sore, but it’ll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy.” After criticism from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for using the iconic Sesame Street character to persuade children, President Biden’s Twitter account replied with “Good on ya, Big Bird.” Last week, Pfizer distributed a video featuring “superhero” boys and girls, in capes, masks and wings, celebrating vaccination.
First lady Jill Biden pushed the vaccination of young children Monday at a school in Northern Virginia, assuring hesitant parents that the shots are “great, effective. and free.”
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Add Jill Biden to that list.— Lightningbits (@cryptojacknews) November 8, 2021
A new survey finds only 27% of parents are eager to get the shots for their kids. Further, 33% of parents say they will wait a while and see how the vaccine is working, and 30% say they will definitely not get the vaccine for their child.
Parents have condemned San Francisco’s plan to mandate vaccination for school children as young as 5, arguing no one under the age of 20 has died from the virus in the city.
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed earlier this month that there will be no vaccine mandate for schools in his state. And parents in New York City gathered in front of City Hall to protest a proposed vaccine mandate.
‘It’s one and done’
At the Florida summit, presenters argued natural immunity must be taken into account.
Malone supports vaccination for high-risk groups, but told Pfeiffer his conclusion “may change as additional data become available.”
Dr. Pierre Kory, president of Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, criticized what he described as a corrupt, Big Pharma-controlled system and government that is blocking options for early treatment with inexpensive “repurposed” drugs such as ivermectin. Journals have refused to publish scientific papers showing the efficacy of repurposed drugs while failing to publish retractions of opposing papers that turned out to be fatally flawed. He said that if “you want to keep your job, you let the leaders do what they do,” a posture that has led to “unmitigated and repeated acts of corruption, which are hurting public health.”
Meanwhile, some health care providers say their careers are on the line because they have insisted on providing off-label treatments that have been shown to be safe and effective.
“We’re getting the s*** kicked out of us, there’s nowhere to go,” Dr. Bruce Boros, owner of three urgent care centers in the Florida Keys, told Pfeiffer.
“The CEOs and administrators of hospitals are threatening us. You’re going to be fired. You must walk in lockstep with our standard of care.”
Speakers dismissed the contention that unvaccinated children are a threat to adults, arguing there is no scientific support for it.
Urso said children “are not superspreaders,” and Malone contended it’s “not the kids responsibility to protect the elders.”
No science
Last week, the associate editor of the British Medical Journal, Dr. Peter Doshi, said in a panel hosted by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., on vaccine mandates that there is no science supporting universal vaccination, because there is no long-term safety data. Likewise, advisers to FDA and CDC committees expressed concern about the lack of data.
Hours before the CDC panel’s approval last week of the Pfizer vaccine for children 5-11, the British Medical Journal published an article featuring a whistleblower’s charge that poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trial last fall may have compromised data integrity and patient safety.
Many prominent epidemiologists and other health experts, such as Dr. Ben Carson, have argued that the risks of vaccinating children outweigh the benefits.
During the FDA 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.”
Carson, the acclaimed former Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon and HHS secretary, said in a recent interview the Biden administration’s move to vaccinate young children for COVID-19 amounts to a “giant experiment,” arguing there is no sufficient data to determine the long-term risks posed by the shots.
Here some of the other health experts who believe children should not be vaccinated:
The reason for the vax is not to protect against disease.
Just can’t be true. The giverment says the vaccines are safe and effective. Everybody must be jabbed often and early to stop the spread of the CCP virus.
Do I have to add /s?
BTTT — especially read the Ben Carson analysis.
bkmk
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