CDC’s Child Vaccine Move Puts Dem Candidates on the Hot Seat

In a unanimous decision, its Committee on Immunization Practices voted to add COVID-19 vaccines to the regular immunization schedule for all children, starting at the age of 6 months old.

For school age children, a recent Kaiser Family Foundation study shows that only one-third of children aged 5-11 have received at least one shot.

Contravening the CDC, The Florida Department of Health issued guidance that the data suggest that "Healthy children from ages 5 to 17 may not benefit from receiving the currently available COVID-19 vaccine." For young people of more advanced age, Florida's Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo went further, announcing that he "Recommends against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines" for young men starting at age 18, due to myocarditis risks.

Denmark's Health Authority determined that because "Children and adolescents rarely become severely ill from the Omicron variant of covid-19," that child COVID vaccination is no longer possible except for "a very limited number of children at particularly higher risk." Despite such appropriate concerns about vaccinating children who remain overwhelmingly invulnerable to dire effects of the virus, the CDC presses on with onerous guidance, pretending that these new Big Pharma injections carry the same risk/reward profile as the established, required childhood vaccinations that have been tested and used for decades.

Reassuringly, his opponent, State Sen. Darren Bailey, issued a strong statement that as governor of Illinois, he would stop any COVID vaccine mandates to attend school, explaining that "We all know the mandate candidate, J.B. Pritzker, will force it on your kids because he thinks the government knows better than parents." That race is already tight, with the latest Osage Research poll finding Pritzker up by only 2%, with higher unfavorable ratings than Darren Bailey as well.

With compulsory childhood vaccinations now clearly on the ballot, Pritzker and other pro-lockdown, pro-mandate Democrats face political peril, especially among the supermajority of mothers who have clearly opted out of vaccinating their children.

In Florida, America's best governor, Ron DeSantis, told citizens that "As long as I am Governor, in Florida there will not be a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for children in our schools." Similarly, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee tweeted: "TN families won't be impacted by today's CDC vote. We'll continue to stand for TN children." So, the CDC unwittingly opens the door to significant political gains for parent-protecting candidates on the right, who can now appeal to constituencies who may not lean conservative generally but want to protect children from this cruel mandate. 

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