Childhood Covid Vaccination
Elizabeth Warren, CNN, and the American Academy of Pediatrics are lambasting RFK Jr. for removing Covid-19 vaccines from the CDC’s recommended immunization schedule for healthy children.
IN FACT, only 13% of children have been given the latest Covid vaccine, and the Biden admin repeatedly violated the FDA’s safety and efficacy standards when approving them for young children. Moreover, they did this even though the clinical trials:
- found adverse reactions to the vaccines, including fevers up to 105.4 ºF, eye-rolling seizures, convulsions, limping, and a “severe” decline in white blood cells that creates the “risk of overwhelming infection.”
- did not enroll enough children to show any clinically meaningful benefits like preventing severe Covid-19, hospitalization, or death.
- would need to be at least 400,000 times larger/longer to determine if the vaccines save more toddlers and preschoolers than they kill.
- excluded children apt to have serious adverse reactions to the vaccines.
- largely excluded children with evidence of a prior Covid infection, which exaggerates the efficacy of the vaccines and may downplay their risks.
- failed to report the absolute efficacy rates of the vaccines, which a medical journal explains can “mislead and distort the public’s interpretation of Covid-19 mRNA vaccine efficacy and violate the ethical and legal obligations of informed consent.”
- had 1–3 months of blinded follow up for safety and efficacy, while the FDA and other health agencies said that one year should be the bare minimum.
The bulk of the facts above come directly from the FDA, often buried on webpages in long lists of documents with vague recurring names like “Decision Memorandum.”
