Vinay Prasad, M.D., MPH, this week addressed misleading information about kids and COVID-19 vaccines coming from four sources: The New York Times, former Biden COVID-19 response advisor Andy Slavitt, head of COVID-19 response Dr. Ashish Jha, and the Brown University School of Public Health.
Prasad made the comments in his videotaped response to news coverage of the June 15 decision to recommend Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines for infants and young children.
Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and associate professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, has been critical of COVID-19 vaccines - and especially their use in children - since the vaccines' introduction.
"The truth is they don't know that to be true," Prasad said.
The tip sheet was produced "In an effort to provide timely knowledge and evidence-based talking points for public health professionals, healthcare workers and others" on COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months.
If health experts had just presented the public with both known and unknown information about the vaccines, he said - if they had admitted that most likely, both the risks and the benefits of the vaccine are "Probably pretty low" - we would have more trust in their guidance.
Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized.
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