11 reasons NOT to add covid-19 shots to the childhood immunization schedule, plus memes
statement of objection submitted to Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices as public comment, channeling outrage into writing
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. -Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Why on earth would the CDC ACIP committee be considering adding current and future experimental covid-19 shots to the childhood immunization schedule at the October 20, 2022 meeting, despite it being unprecedented, unnecessary, illegal and unethical to mandate experimental injections for children?
Robert. F. Kennedy, Jr. explains:
“If you want to know why [there is] such a strong, fierce drive to vaccinate children, you have to understand how the law works. Under the CARES Act and the PREP Act, emergency use authorization vaccines are protected from liability. So as long as it’s an EUA vaccine, you can’t sue them, no matter how reckless their conduct, no matter how grievous your injury, no matter how negligent they are, you cannot sue them.
Once it becomes an approved vaccine, that shield – that freedom from immunity disappears, and we will be able to sue them — unless it’s a recommended vaccine for children. Because under the childhood vaccine act, any vaccine that is recommended for children automatically receives immunity from liability even when that vaccine is given to an adult.
So Pfizer knows that it cannot afford to give an approved vaccine to any American because attorneys like me will sue them and bankrupt them overnight. We will make them pay for the entire pandemic. But if they can get it approved for children, then they’ll get immunity from liability, and they will not have to deal with the consequences of their behavior.”
If these covid shots are placed on the childhood immunization schedule, most states will follow the CDC and require experimental shots for school and college attendance. Even though 80 to 90% of youth are already naturally immune to COVID. State squeezes on vaccine exemptions are making it harder and harder for families to opt out.
Here’s what you can do:
1.) Watch the meeting, have a watch party, October 20, 2022, from 8:30 am to 3:20 pm EDT.: with livestream commentary by Children’s Health Defense and Dr. Meryl Nass
2.) Leave a short and sweet public comment (you can do so from now until Thursday, October 20): https://www.regulations.gov/document/CDC-2022-0111-0001.
3.) Share this link with a friends or family. Maybe just for the memes.
As Margaret Anna Alice writes,
all the “Superstar Substackers Steve Kirsch, James Roguski, Toby Rogers, Igor Chudov, Etana Hecht, Dr. Paul Alexander, Dr. Meryl Nass, Jordan Schachtel, Kyle Becker, Ann Tomoko Rosen, and 2nd Smartest Guy in the World and medical freedom nonprofits Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) and Stand for Health Freedom have already sounded the alarm.”
Read the scientists and journalists above for incisive insights on this urgent issue. I don’t have much to add, just my submitted public comment below. I’m posting it, with citations, in case it may help someone else with a letter template, public comment, testimony, discussion or research rabbit hole. It’s long, but easy to skim. With so many reasons to object, it could be much longer.
RE: Docket No. CDC-2022-0111 Agency “Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.”
Dear ACIP committee members,
I write to you as an experienced registered nurse with specialty certifications in perinatal nursing, high-risk obstetric nursing, labor and delivery, and lactation. I have devoted my career to the health of mothers, babies, children, and families. After working in health care since 1996, I completed two years of graduate studies including statistics, epidemiology, and research design toward a three-year nurse practitioner graduate PhD program. I am aware that ACIP’s 10/19 and 10/20 meetings may include discussion and action on adding covid-19 vaccinations to the routine childhood immunization schedule for children and/or adolescents. Upon review of multiple evidence-based sources, I strongly oppose any vote to add any covid-19 or mRNA vaccine to the CDC immunization schedule for children or adolescents.
As one health professional to another, I urge you, first do no harm. As a physician or health official, you owe a duty to patients and medical ethics. If you recommend these vaccines to this age group, given all you know, will you be upholding your oath and your own moral conscience if you have any doubts about the risks and benefits to children?
These are my reasons for objection to covid-19 vaccinations being added to the routine immunization schedule:
1) Some children will die and others will be permanently injured
from these vaccines. Based on reporting to the current VAERS database, as of 10/07/2022, for ages 6 months to 17 years: 160 children have died, 526 are permanently disabled, and 1,959 have been diagnosed with myocarditis out of a total of 56,818 adverse event reports. How many more children need to die before this vaccine program is re-evaluated and put on pause? These numbers are likely to be much lower than reality, given that the Baker paper, “Advanced Clinical Decision Support for Vaccine Adverse Event Detection and Reporting” showed that “the odds of a VAERS report submission during the implementation period were 30.2 (95% confidence interval, 9.52-95.5). This means that the under-reporting factor was at least 30 as a lower bound and estimated to be between 9.5 and 95.5. So, we can safely multiply the numbers of injuries and deaths by at least 10, and up to 30. (1)
2) Loss of Public Trust in All Vaccines:
The majority of parents I speak to about vaccines report high levels of mistrust in the process of covid-19 vaccine research, efficacy, necessity and safety for children, with a ripple effect extending to all vaccines. Voting to add the covid-19 vaccine to the schedule will cause devastating, possibly irreversible loss of trust in the entire vaccine schedule. This mistrust would also diminish the credibility of pediatricians and the CDC, causing plummeting rates of childhood vaccination. The outcome of any vote to add covid-19 vaccines to the schedule will appear politically and financially motivated and will serve to further erode public trust in public health institutions. The public is aware that schedule approval will provide vaccine manufacturers with permanent freedom from liability, affording the manufacturer with all the profits and none of the liability for safety. It appears that the only beneficiaries of this rushed decision would be the vaccine manufacturers, not children. The CDC is increasingly viewed as untrustworthy and corrupted by Pharma, conflicts of interest, and financial motivations. Please maintain the shreds of public trust that still exist after the mismanagement, miscommunications, and missteps in the covid-19 response. I urge you to refuse to add covid-19 vaccinations to the CDC schedule for children and adolescents at this time. The original shots as a primary series are for an extinct strain and therefore irrelevant and unnecessary. Trials are not yet started for safety and efficacy of newer variations and bivalents. Public trust is insulted and endangered by any proposal that Pfizer’s trial of eight mice with the latest BA variant boosters should be sufficient to administer this product to children. Covid-19 vaccines are expected to be updated annually, so what product exactly is being voted on? All current EUA and future EUA covid vaccines? The original, irrelevant strain or the untested bivalent emerging strain vaccines? Either option is unacceptable to the public. We cannot compare an annual, updated strain of covid-19 vaccine to the annual flu vaccine, because of the novel lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery platform for mRNA. Please see issue number nine, below, regarding lipid nanoparticles. If vaccine purchases. approvals and rollouts precede safety trials, then the public will continue to lose trust in the CDC recommendations and in other scheduled vaccines. Why allow one “bad apple” to ruin the whole apple barrel?
Bonus reason: What has Pfizer,
the company with the largest fraud settlement and the largest criminal fine
done to deserve your trust?
3) Deviating from Worldwide Medical Consensus
When the United States CDC diverges from worldwide medical consensus, public trust is further eroded. Other trusted countries are reviewing new evidence on covid vaccination guidelines for healthy youth and reversing course on youth covid-19 vaccine programs, and so should the CDC. Here are three examples with citations from government health agency websites with the latest policies as of September and October 2022.
In Sweden, covid-19 vaccines are unavailable for all children under 18. "The recommendation changes on 1 November -Children and young people rarely get seriously ill from covid-19. Therefore, the recommendation will be removed on November 1. Then it is no longer possible to get vaccinated. This also applies if you have already received a dose of vaccine. (2)
In the United Kingdom covid-19 vaccination is unavailable for healthy children under 11 effective September 2022, in a policy reversal. (3)
Denmark has also reversed policy and removed availability of covid-19 for healthy children under 18,effective September 2022, stating "Vaccination of children against covid-19: children and adolescents rarely become severely ill from the Omicron variant of covid-19 - from 1 July 2022, it was no longer possible for children and adolescents aged under 18 to get the first injection and, from 1 September 2022, it was no longer possible for them to get the second injection. A very limited number of children at particularly higher risk of becoming severely ill will still be offered vaccination based on an individual assessment by a doctor." Also, Denmark removed availability of boosters for most people under age fifty. (4)
Florida’s “Guidance for Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccines issued March 2022, and reaffirmed on October 7, 2022, “recommends against use in healthy children and adolescents 5 years old to 17 years old. This now includes recommendations against COVID-19 vaccination among infants and children under 5 years old, which has since been issued under Emergency Use Authorization.” (5) The Florida State Surgeon General has also issued guidance recommending against mRNA covid shots for males age 18-39 years old. (5)
When countries all over the world are now rejecting mRNA shots for kids, due to high risk of vaccine injury and little to no benefit for children, can our public health “experts” at the CDC really be this misguided as to propose recommending covid-19 shots for all children, annually? Or, this deep in collusion with Pharma? Your vote will show the answer to the American public.
4) There is no COVID emergency for children. Children have a 99.995% recovery rate,
and a body of medical literature indicates that almost zero healthy children under five years old have died from COVID.
· A Johns Hopkins study monitoring 48,000 children diagnosed with COVID showed a zero-mortality rate in children under 18 without comorbidities. (6, 7)
· A study in Nature demonstrated that children under 18 with no comorbidities have virtually no risk of death. (8)
· This study published in December in Nature demonstrated how children efficiently mount effective, robust, and sustained immune responses. (9)
· The covid-19 vaccines are touted for efficacy in reducing hospitalization and death. It makes no sense to mandate any product that “reduces hospitalization and death”, much less an EUA product with known risks, for all children, because healthy children are already at statistically zero risk for hospitalization or death from covid-19 illness. And, there are safe and effective medicines for treatment. As stated on government health agency websites of Sweden, Denmark, and the UK, as well as the State of Florida, the covid-10 vaccine is not needed for healthy children. The vast majority of children experience mild illness and develop robust, long-lasting natural immunity just as they do to many respiratory illnesses, which strengthens herd immunity. (2, 3, 4, 5)
5) Lack of Long-Term Safety Data
There are no long-term safety data for COVID vaccination of babies or youth. Unlike other vaccines on the schedule, this is an EUA vaccine with inadequate long-term safety data. Phase 4 trials have not been completed. No vaccine should be considered for the schedule without Phase 4 Trial results. The current proposal to vaccinate children is under an Emergency Use Authorization. Therefore, vaccinating babies, children, or adolescents with covid-19 vaccines will be an experiment, not a standard medical procedure. Over time, significant adverse events may be discovered (including lifetime cancer rates, infertility, immune alterations, or other harms). The health trajectories of millions of young lives could be forever changed due to lack of foresight and inappropriate overconfidence in the absence of long-term safety data.
6) Unanswered questions on myocarditis must be answered first
On August 23, 2021, FDA’s letter to BioNTech explained that neither the VAERS nor the VSD surveillance systems were adequate for FDA to determine the risk of myocarditis resulting from the Pfizer vaccine. Pfizer and BioNTech have been instructed by FDA to execute studies over the next five years on myocarditis risk in children related to covid-19 vaccination. I urge you to wait until 2027 and learn, along with the FDA, the actual risk of myocarditis related to this vaccine before approving injections for millions of innocent, trusting children and families. We are counting on you to evaluate the substantial risks against the negligible benefits for our next generation before approving a vaccine for routine, universal administration to children.
· A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases out of Hong Kong showed 1 out of every 2,700 12- to 17-year-old boys were diagnosed with myocarditis following the 2nd dose of Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine, or 37 per 100,000 vaccinated. (10)
· A study from Kaiser posted on medRxiv found the same rate of myocarditis in 12- to 17-year-old American boys, 1 in 2,700. (11)
7) Emerging Evidence of Negative Efficacy and Waning Protection
There is compelling evidence of negative covid-19 efficacy in adults, and research on negative efficacy in children is needed before approving this questionable vaccine to the schedule. (12)
According to the CDC, effectiveness of the covid-19 vaccines in adults wanes rapidly, and nothing is known about duration of intended effect. (24) In contrast, naturally acquired immunity, which is robust and long-lasting for children, is superior. (9) Waning efficacy and negative efficacy signals are unacceptable for any vaccine on the immunization schedule.
8) A non-sterilizing vaccine has no place on the routine immunization schedule.
As stated in multiple sources, including CDC, the benefits of this vaccine do not include prevention of viral transmission. (13) Transmission was not a study endpoint for manufacturers of these vaccines, and omicron variants are noted to be much more transmissible, with milder illness, than previous variants. According to the authorization documents for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the European Medicines Agency concluded that “excellent vaccine efficacy (preventing symptomatic COVID-19) was shown,” but that it “is presently not known if the vaccine protects against asymptomatic infection, or its impact on viral transmission,” as well as the duration of the protection provided. (14, 22, 23).
All medical interventions carry risk. The covid-19 vaccines carry both unknown and known risks (like myocarditis) and should not be universally prescribed as a routine for all children. Just like all medical interventions, this vaccine should only be recommended based on an individualized risk-benefit analysis with proper informed consent, in the context of the doctor-patient consultation.
9) Alarming unknowns of the novel lipid nanoparticle (LNP) carrier
For COVID-19 mRNA vaccines (Pfizer or Moderna), biodistribution studies in animals were not conducted. Instead, surrogate studies were done with luciferase and solid-lipid nanoparticles (Pfizer.) These confirm biodistribution to the liver, ovaries, spleen, adrenal glands, and other body tissues beyond the administration site. (15)
For Moderna, the biodistribution of mRNA-1647 (encoding CMV genes) formulated in a similar lipid nanoparticulate delivery system confirms a biodistribution beyond the injection site, in particular, the distribution to the lymph nodes, spleen and the eye. (16)
The extent, duration, and effect of bioaccumulation of spike proteins and lipid nanoparticles in organs and glands is unknown, and more data is needed for adequate safety assessment. Both the European Medicine Agency (EMA) report (14) submitted by Pfizer in 2021, and the 2020 Japanese biodistribution study (17) reveal consistent results that are not reassuring. The results are also not adequate safety data for approval of universal covid-19 vaccines for children because there are three significant limitations to safety reassurance from these studies. First, these studies were done in rats, not humans, and not children. Children have unique developmental issues that require we do not extrapolate results from rats or adults when considering the immunization schedule. Second, these studies used luciferase-encoding mRNA rather than the spike protein-encoding mRNA; and third, these studies do not measure the spike proteins. We do not know the length of time, quantity, or biodistribution of these spike proteins. These limited, animal model pharmacokinetic biodistribution results showed that amounts of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine settled in the injection site, liver, spleen, adrenal glands, and ovaries of rats at 48 hours following intramuscular injection. Even “small” amounts are concerning, because we do not have long-term safety data on any amount of mRNA or LNPs in children’s bodies for one dose, two doses, or a lifetime of annual doses. (14,17)
· The issue of mRNA degradation and lack of consistency and efficacy has not been satisfactorily resolved and transparency concerns remain. (18)
· Highly inflammatory nature of mRNA LNP platform: The mRNA-LNP platform's lipid nanoparticle component used in preclinical vaccine studies is highly inflammatory. (19)
10. High levels of natural immunity already exist
Most children are already immune. Natural immunity is superior to vaccine-induced immunity. Vaccinating the already immune is superfluous and potentially harmful. CNBC reported in April 2022, “An estimated 95% of the U.S. population ages 16 and older had developed antibodies against the virus either through vaccination or infection as of December, according to a CDC survey of blood donor samples.”(20) CDC earlier said over 75% of children already have partial or full immunity to covid. There is no ethical justification for unnecessary vaccination that will put children at elevated risk of vaccine harm when it appears that most are already immune and will obtain no benefit. Furthermore, multiple studies have suggested that vaccinating after infection increases the risk of vaccine-induced side effects such as myocarditis (21). The childhood covid-19 vaccine program should be paused while research is carried out to determine safety and efficacy of vaccinating children against covid-19 who already have acquired natural immunity.
11. Skewed statistics
Skewed statistics aggregating children hospitalized solely due to covid with children hospitalized for other reasons and morbidities with a positive covid PCR test have skewed the risk benefit analysis. This exaggerates covid-caused morbidity and mortality in children. According to the CDC data tracker, less than 0.1% of all US deaths that have occurred “with” COVID have occurred in children aged 0 through 17. (25) Children are at statistically zero risk of dying from covid, while they are at high risk for serious short and long term vaccine adverse events, including myocarditis.
For further reading, I recommend:
· https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/media-resources/stop-the-shots/
I ask you to carefully consider all of the above information before making any decision on adding covid-19 vaccines to the official CDC immunization schedule for children of any age.
Respectfully,
a nurse who has dedicated her career to maternal and child health
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Citations
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16. Moderna Public Assessment Report
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24. Ferdinands JM, Rao S, Dixon BE, et al. Waning 2-Dose and 3-Dose Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Predominance — VISION Network, 10 States, August 2021–January 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2022;71:255–263. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7107e2external icon.
25. “COVID Data Tracker: Demographic Trends of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the US Reported to CDC,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, updated Oct 19, 2022,
Acknowledgement is given to Robert F. Kennedy and Children’s Health Defense for a few instances of adopted language in this letter, used with permission.