I guess I am quite surprised to hear that there are drug trials for healthy children that young.
In this case, the risk/reward seems very imbalanced almost to the point being unethical.
Regulatory - The FDA et al. have a higher standard for what they'll approve in young children, given their developmental stages and substantial post-vaccine expected lifespan.
Biological - Early childhood immune systems work differently than adults', in that they have substantially boosted innate/naive defenses, but much poorer adaptive defenses. Consequently, whether and at what dosage a vaccine will be effective changes.
(Welcome corrections if the above summary is inaccurate)
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
Shouldn’t we try very hard to avoid the possibility of screwing up a growing child’s body?
That's why we have the vaccine trials.
They're the very last step in testing a vaccine. And there really is no other option: if the end result is going to a vaccine given to small children at some point you're going to have to give it to some small children and see what happens. The only way around it is to not vaccinate children at all... which doesn't seem great from an ethical standpoint given the number of lives that have been saved by vaccines.
There are studies coming out showing heart inflammation in younger people caused by the vaccines.
We should weigh up all the info to make a properly informed decision. Trials are there for a reason after all.
See the graph here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0/figures/2
The FDA skipping essential vaccine approval procedures in childhood vaccines, given fewer kids died of covid in 2020 than from the flu the year before, is one of the best signs that we are in a mass formation [2].
I understand that because there is only a liability shield for vaccines given to children pharma wants it for business reasons, but the FDA science advisory panel said risk vs reward does not scientifically justify childhood covid vaxx.
[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/dangerous-push-to-give-boosters... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLDpZ8daIVM
Yes, that's why we vaccinate. Those pesky diseases can screw up a growing child's body quite effectively.
How many children are you referring to?
The 100,000 doses of Cutter-manufactured Salk vaccine in 1955 with insufficiently inactivated, producing ~300 cases of paralytic polio, and causing the NIH & PHS to create and apply minimum manufacturing standards?
Then, consider that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have.
Now tell me it is a good idea to roll the dice and give that vax to a 5 year old girl and risk harming her reproductive future to avoid what will essentially be a cold to her if she contracts.
Pharma is a business. Children are just another demographic for them to expand into. In the aggregate, they have shown that they care very little about the long term negative effects of any drug.
Maybe that is OK when we’re testing MS drugs or on people with shortened life spans, but children need to be protected. They are stuck with any damage that is done for the long, long term.
There are trials for all sorts of drugs for all ages. Generally they’ll “walk down” the age spectrum, ie start with adults, then teens, then younger kids. Pfizer is running a vaccine study for <6-month olds, too. Covid is less of a risk for little kids, but it’s not zero risk, and I’d rather my kids not be immunologically naïve when they encounter it.
You can not know longer-term effects before the 5 year trial has concluded, so approving after a short trial and then inevitably mandating is one of the most reckless large-scale experiments ever done.
In addition to cutting down approval steps due to a shortened time frame as well as using a vaccine protocol to EUA a gene therapy based vaxx tech, they are also skipping the childhood science advisory panel after they said no the first time [1].
This is not how you do science.
[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/dangerous-push-to-give-boosters...
The major downsides are that you'd be missing out on information about side effects from vaccination, and on possible clinical-trial data that might show a different, better, dosage in your kid's age range.
That being said, after hearing about 10- and 11-year-olds pretending to be 12 so that they could get vaccinated I did have a moment where I wondered if she could pass for 5.
can someone please explain to me the thought process of enrolling your child in an experimental medical trial for a medicine they probably don't even need?
Why? Is there any data to suggest that children are at risk of severe illness or complications? Isn't it a fact that children do not appreciably spread covid?