What actually happened at the ACIP meeting on 10/19/2022?
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to include the covid-19 vaccines in the VFC (Vaccines for Children) program, to be implemented in undetermined ways, at some point in the future. VFC is a federal program that pays about 5 billion annually to buy vaccines for uninsured children and children on Medicaid.
Transcript from Presenter Sarah Oliver
(at 6 hours and 21 minutes)
You can listen for yourself and draw your own conclusions here- Replay and live blogging by Dr. Meryl Nass here.
Notice how the CDC presenter downplays myocarditis/pericarditis risk.
“…Over 30 million children and adolescents worldwide have received at least one covid-19 vaccine dose…We need to do continued work to allow all eligible children to get vaccinated. The benefits outweigh the known and potential unknown risks, including the very small risk of including pericarditis or myocarditis. There is more work to do, to increase coverage in children. Incorporating covid 19 vaccines into the VFC (Vaccines for children) program is an important step to inclusion of covid vaccines in the routine immunization program. I am highlighting that details of VFC program will require ongoing work, the ACIP work allows progress to begin, it is the start line not the finish line. The point of the VFC vote is to allow uninsured and underinsured children to have access to the covid 19 vaccines at a time in the future when we transition to a commercial market. Equitable access to covid 19 vaccines for all ages and populations remains critically important. Both now while they are being supplied by federal government and in future when we move to a commercial program. To allow uninsured or underinsured to have access to covid 19 vaccines at some point in the future.”
Commentary
Voting to include the covid-19 vaccines in the VFC program under the guise of “equity” is a very interesting step. It ensures that the federal government will be a buyer for covid-19 vaccines for millions of children who receive free vaccines under this program. Imagine the vaccine manufacturer’s profits when all under- and uninsured children receive a covid-19 primary series, plus annual boosters? Perhaps that is why they are called boosters, because selling the same product over and over again boosts profits. As the presenter states, “Incorporating covid 19 vaccines into the VFC (Vaccines for children) program is an important step to inclusion of covid vaccines in the routine immunization program.” However, an EUA product is not allowed on the routine immunization schedule. Is this a way to work around, or leapfrog over, the rules?
The push to add covid-19 shots to the routine schedule is not about children’s health
Covid-19 poses minimal risk to the pediatric population. The available vaccines have low to negative efficacy for reducing infections, and any protection quickly wanes, requiring “boosters.” The vast majority of children have a degree of existing immunity to covid, with durable and robust natural immunity.
It just doesn’t make sense unless you follow the money.
Who benefits from adding these shots to the CDC schedule? Who benefits when states obediently follow the CDC schedule, creating school attendance mandates, restricting exemptions, and pushing children to receive shots and boosters that they do not need? Pharma benefits. Imagine the profits for vaccine manufacturers when millions of children are mandated to receive primary and annual covid-19 shots for school or college attendance. A product on the CDC schedule is the golden ticket because it allows drug companies to capture all of the profits with none of the risks. No risk of lawsuits, and no incentive for safe manufacturing practices. Under the Childhood Vaccine Act, any vaccine that is on the CDC childhood schedule of recommended routine immunizations receives complete and total immunity from liability. Whether the shot is given to a baby, a child, or an adult. Liability protections unfairly shield vaccine manufacturers from being held accountable for unsafe products. Meanwhile, vaccine recipients carry all of the risk, with no legal recourse or compensation available for vaccine injuries or deaths.
States choose whether or not to adopt the CDC schedule
If the CDC votes today to place the covid-19 shots on the routine childhood immunization schedule, the decision is still up to individual states to determine their statewide immunizations “required” for school attendance. Some states have philosophical, religious, or medical exemptions, some do not. In Washington and other states, the right to exemption has been a battleground, with many exemptions reduced or removed.
Learn about your Washington state exemption rights here.
Learn about all state exemptions nationwide here.
If states continue business as usual and adopt the CDC schedule including covid-19 shots, will we see skyrocketing vaccine exemptions, plummeting school enrollment, and a massive move to homeschooling?
Florida is the only state, so far, that has courageously conducted its own risk-benefit analysis on covid-19 vaccines without blindly following the CDC. The Florida State Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo now recommends against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for males ages 18-39 years old. Florida also recommends against use of covid-19 vaccines for infants, children under five years old, and in healthy children and adolescents 5 years old to 17 years old.
The ACIP drama continues to unfold on day two of the October ACIP meetings.
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