Posted on 06/23/2022 12:20:42 PM PDT by lightman
Florida-based supermarket chain Publix said Tuesday that it will not provide COVID-19 vaccines for children under the age of 5 after authorizations were handed down by federal health agencies.
Spokesperson Hannah Herring told the Tampa Bay Times that the company will not be providing vaccines for kids aged 6 months to 4 years “at this time.” Herring said the company will not be providing an explanation for the decision.
The company’s website says that it will provide COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5 and older. Publix’s pharmacies are still offering influenza vaccines and other, traditional vaccines for young children, according to its website.
The Epoch Times has contacted Publix, which has the majority of its stores in Florida, for comment.
A spokesperson for CVS told Fox News that the company will offer vaccines for children younger than 5, while Walgreens told Fox 13 in Tampa Bay that children ages 3 and older can receive the vaccine across the United States, including in Florida.
And a spokesperson for Walmart told the Tampa Bay Times that it will give vaccines to kids aged 4 and older.
“While we expect the majority of these vaccines to be distributed to pediatric providers, we plan to administer authorized vaccines for ages 3–5 as supply as distribution allows,” said Walmart spokesperson Tyler Thomason.
Last week, both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) handed down an emergency authorization to give Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines to children aged 6 months and older. The agencies in October 2021 similarly approved an emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years of age, although federal data suggests that only about 29 percent of children in that age group are fully vaccinated. Florida Stands Firm
Publix’s decision comes as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration said that health officials in Florida will not be ordering COVID-19 vaccines for small children after the emergency approvals were given.
“Florida is not placing any orders of COVID shots for zero to 5-year-old babies and kids,” DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw posted on Twitter. “What they have couched as a reversal is actually the governor’s steadfast position that … Florida does not recommend, nor distribute, shots for babies. Health care providers that want the vaccines can obtain them and any parent who wants it for their child can get it.”
And during an event several days later, DeSantis told a crowd on June 20 that his government doesn’t recommend shots for small children.
“We recommend against [vaccinating babies],” the Republican governor told the crowd. “We are not going to have any program where we’re trying to jab 6-month-old babies with mRNA. That’s just the reality.”
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, meanwhile, echoed DeSantis’s recommendation.
“We recommended against COVID-19 vax for healthy children in March [because] there was no strong evidence of benefit. This remains the same for healthy kids [under] 5,” he wrote on Twitter. “Providers have always been able to order vaccines. This never changed.”
FL ping.
How long until the Fed penalizes the chain?
Good for Publix, but I don’t live in FL, unfortunately.
Don’t they have the same immunity from lawsuits that the pharmaceutical companies do?
Given what’s now known and more coming out every day, the decision was probably based on the suggestion/recommendation of their legal council.
HUZZAH!
SANITY @ PUBLIX!
They are I a number of states. I wonder if they will take this position in all of them.
No they don’t if the business you work for forced the vax on you and something happens to you the business can be held responsible for making you take it!!!
What the Pfizer trial in children showed [TRANSCRIPT and 5 minute video]
brighteon.com ^ | June 21, 2022 | The Prisoner (Brighteon), Dr. Clare CraigPosted on 6/23/2022, 12:19:24 PM by ransomnote
[H/T ExTexasRedhead]
Why would anyone want to vaccinate a child under 5 anyway? It provides them no benefit, most that young don’t even have any symptoms if they’re infected. Have there even been any deaths of children that age from COVID? Why vaccinate a child for a disease that essentially has no risk to them?
“Spokesperson Hannah Herring told the Tampa Bay Times that the company will not be providing vaccines for kids aged 6 months to 4 years “at this time.” Herring said the company will not be providing an explanation for the decision.”
Does anybody else recognize that name, Herring? Makes me wonder.
A) They want more Conservatives as customers.
B) Their corporate risk management has a clue.
C) All of the above.
Morons virtue-signaling and bragging about having their kids vaxed on social media. I wish I were kidding, but that’s the state of the world.
They should not give it to kids over five, either.
Racists.
Hey, if all kinds of businesses and gov orgs can discriminate against those who will not vax for COVID, then other businesses can decide not to vax.
Can’t be one way.
Was funny because my cousin siblings are at odds on this.
The oldest lady, who just came back permanently from Germany (and they all got COVID that week), said she would never vax a kid, and cannot understand why her youngest sister, is so excited to get her 2 kids including toddler, vax for COVID.
Must be lots of fun talks about COVID when youngest visits. I’m hoping to be there for Some.
Someone has to have sense in all this mess.
This country has been in a mess for almost 2 years. I found it hard to grasp that the whole country followed the piper, every step.
Fauci came along.. sure he had his reasons for shutting down just about everything.
Scaring society... Giving rules and regulations .. taking meds for virus off the market.. keeping it going for over a year..
Becoming a millionaire in short time..
How many out there researched this fauci?
How many did whatever he said?
Sheep!
As a teen I worked at the only Publix in town back in 1976, over forty years ago. The next nearest was almost 20 miles to the north. Today, there are at least fourteen store in the same geographical area. They are everywhere here.
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