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The ACIP panel voted unanimously 15-0 for the CDC to recommend that children get the Covid-19 vaccines and boosters. The CDC is now almost certain to add the Covid shots to its ‘Childhood Vaccines Schedule,’ which schools often rely upon to mandate ‘vaccines’ in order to attend public school.

[H/T mewzilla]A CDC committee will convene this week and likely vote Thursday to deliver permanent legal indemnity to Pfizer and Moderna, through the process of adding the drug companies’ mRNA injections to the child and adolescent immunization schedules.By adding the shots to the childhood schedule, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will transfer liability for vaccine injuries to the federal government’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), allowing for Pfizer and Moderna to finally bring an FDA approved shot to the market without opening itself up to lawsuits. Moreover, it will act as another windfall for companies that...

[H/T CheshireTheCat]On October 19 and 20, the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold an open meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to review and possibly revise the use of immunizations—including the child/adolescent immunization schedule to include mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, among others. This could enable school COVID vaccine mandates for children, and give the pharmaceutical companies complete liability protection.The meeting will be held on October 19, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., EDT and October 20, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:20 p.m., EDT, and will be webcast live, the CDC announced.Matters To Be...

BREAKING: In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down Two of the FDA’s most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, raising fresh questions about the Biden administration and the way that it’s sidelined the FDA. Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, will leave at the end of October, and OVRR deputy director Phil Krause, who’s been at FDA for more than a decade, will leave in November. The news, first reported by BioCentury, is a massive blow to confidence in the agency’s...

On 5/14, the Philadelphia Board of Health updated the Emergency Order Concerning COVID-19 Vaccine Information Statements to allow individuals 11 years of age and older to consent to his or her own immunization with a COVID-19 vaccine under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), without the approval or consent of a parent or guardian. In this case, an EUA Fact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers would substitute for a Vaccine Information Statement.Currently, the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is only authorized for 12 years of age and older. The language 11 years and older in the Philadelphia Board of Health order aligns with...