Coronavirus PING!
Posted on 03/07/2022 10:02:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Florida officials on March 7 said the state would be the first to formally recommend that healthy children shouldn’t get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, made the announcement during a roundtable discussion titled “The Curtain Close on COVID Theater.”
“The Florida Department of Health is going to be the first state [department] to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children,” Ladapo said.
The planned update didn’t appear to be on the department’s website on March 7, and the agency declined to share more details. COVID-19 vaccines “are the most effective tools to protect your health and prevent the spread of disease,” a page on the site says, adding that the vaccines “are safe, free, and highly effective, including against known variants.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declined to comment beyond pointing to its current recommendations, which say virtually all children aged 5 and older should get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and that children aged 12 and older should get a booster shot because of waning vaccine effectiveness.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told a briefing in Washington that the policy was “absolutely not” good and suggested it was a part of a pattern from some officials of “casting doubt on vaccinations.”
Pfizer’s vaccine is the only shot available to people younger than 18 in the United States.
Shortly after Ladapo’s announcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the event “crystalized a lot of things that we’ve seen,” including “a failure to weigh costs and benefits, whether that’s lockdowns, whether that’s school closures, or whether that’s even something about whether a healthy 7-year-old kid should get the COVID vaccine.”
According to the CDC, just 663 of the 914,259 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the United States during the pandemic have been among those 18 or younger. In addition, few children who have contracted COVID-19 have required hospital care.
The event took place after three studies revived questions concerning vaccination for all children, a contentious topic during the pandemic.
Dr. Tracy Hoeg, an epidemiologist who worked on a study comparing the risks and benefits, said during the event that the recent data was undermining the arguments for vaccinating children.
“We need to make sure that we’re not doing an overall harm by vaccinating children when we don’t know if there’s benefit. And we have this known safety signal, which we analyzed in our paper, which is myocarditis in boys, especially, more than girls—it also exists in girls—and young men,” she said.
“And so even for boys who are previously healthy, who haven’t been previously infected, we didn’t find that there was a benefit—there was actually overall risk of giving them the second dose. And so these are the type of analyses that we need to do in a rigorous manner and until we know the answer to this, and until we’re sure that we’re not overall doing more harm than good, we need to be able to give parents and children the choice about whether or not they should be vaccinated.”
Several other speakers also said they opposed vaccine mandates for children, and recommended further research on the risk-benefit calculus.
“If you have a child with risk factors to COVID, that’s a discussion with your pediatrician, but if you have a healthy child, your chances of that child dying are incredibly low. Essentially close to zero, if not zero,” said Dr. Marty Makary, a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Nice they are doing this, but what took them so long? Did they wait until Biden basically declared the “crisis” is over?
Coronavirus PING!
Francis Collins: Fire those that resist!
Leaked Audio Reveals Former NIH Director Francis Collins Touting Vaccine Mandates, Threatening Unemployment On Those Who Resist the Vaccine
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4044705/posts
C’mon!
DeSantis has been fighting the good fight for 2 years already!....( plus his wife fighting cancer)
He is one of a tiny few who has stood up to the fascism!
DeSantis has a nest of vipers in his public health departments, state and local. He’s stuck with them the same way Trump was stuck with his bureaucrats.
The local Miami media is frothing at the mouth. The pretend journalists there hate DeSantis, they hate the surgeon general of Florida.
Even the handlers of Joe are giving zoom interviews in an effort to stop Florida’s leadership.
Pathetic.
I had to sit in a Dade County School Board meeting a few years ago trying to help them w/ their playground specs and regulations. All I got from it was that I would never do business in Dade County again. To call them idiots would be way too kind.
GOAT Governor. Can we just keep him forever?
What about Ronald Reagan?
Dr. John Campbell has been red-pilled
What Deep State has done is even worse than we suspected.
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