How to enroll children in COVID-19 vaccine trials
- The costs that delay poses to children, their families, and society provide strong reasons to consider enrolling minors in vaccine trials before safety and efficacy have been established in adults.
- A different way to address this concern is to enroll minors after there are sufficient safety data in adults, but before there is evidence of efficacy. To pursue this strategy, enrollment of minors should begin with those who are most similar to the adults from whom safety data were collected.
The paper was published in March 2021, roughly one year before public health officials would authorize and urge the vaccination of children against COVID-19.
- The unearthed paper comes amidst controversy over Fauci's decision to fund research on "killer" bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
- Additionally, Grady's prominent role in supervising the ethics of NIH research and policy appear to present a conflict of interest given her husband's role in shaping America's COVID–19 response and vaccination guidelines.
- “The costs that delay poses to children, their families, and society provide strong reasons to consider enrolling minors in vaccine trials for COVID-19 before safety and efficacy have been established in adults,” claimed Grady in the paper.
- Anthony Fauci’s wife – who is also head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center – authored a paper detailing how to enroll children in COVID-19 vaccine trials.
- The study “Enrolling Minors in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials” was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and was published in the journal Pediatrics.
- The paper proceeds to assess the benefits and drawbacks surrounding the timing of enrolling children in COVID-19 vaccine trials along with the ideal selection criteria for participants.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/27/faucis-wife-argues-for-kid-covid-vaccine-trials/
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