Doctor warns it's 'too soon' to require COVID shots for kids

'Our public health experts need to listen'

In many ways, we have never seen a vaccine quite like these mRNA vaccines for Covid-19.

Common sense dictates that the more confidence we have in the safety and efficacy of a vaccine, or its ability to lead to herd immunity; and the more severe the consequences of the disease are for both individuals and society; then the more reasonably we can require it among schoolchildren.

The smallpox vaccine, for example, was reported by the Department of Defense in 2003 to be triggering post-vaccine myocarditis at a 1 in 1724 clip! For the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, most serious safety concerns, such as thrombotic events, Bell's Palsy, or Guillain-Barre Syndrome, are in the 1/100,000-1/1,000,000 range.

Finally, Dr Gupta asserts that Covid-19 is "Sixteen times" more likely to induce a viral myocarditis in kids than the vaccine, for a rate "Maybe just under a hundred out of a million." The first part of this statement presumably comes from a study finding that people hospitalized with Covid-19 were 16 times more likely to have myocarditis than those hospitalized for other reasons; for kids under 16, the incidence was actually 37 times higher.

To return to our charge in determining whether to require a childhood vaccine, we are encouraged to ask: is Covid-19 "Highly contagious and serious?" Highly contagious, yes.

One objection might be, "Why would you give ammunition for vaccine-hesitant parents and kids to avoid a societally-useful, individually-protective vaccine, all over a rare,1/6,600 reaction?" My inner Libertarian has a ready answer for that: I cannot endorse any policy that requires a substantial segment of the population to undergo a medical intervention in which the risk of harm might possibly exceed the benefit.

It is Pfizer's corporate duty to seek the broadest possible implementation of its vaccine, but even its most prominent board member is warning us: it's too soon to mandate these vaccines to children.

https://www.wnd.com/2021/10/doctor-warns-soon-require-covid-shots-kids/