(1) An amazing number of state and personal policies affecting kids are supported one number: 335. that's what number children under 18 have died with a Covid diagnosis code in their record, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet the CDC, which has 21,000 employees, hasn’t researched each death to seek out out whether Covid caused it or if it involved a pre-existing medical condition.
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Without these data, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices decided in May that the advantages of two-dose vaccination outweigh the risks for all kids 12 to fifteen. I’ve written many peer-reviewed medical studies, and that i can consider no journal editor who would accept the claim that 335 deaths resulted from a pandemic without data to point if the virus was incidental or causal, and without an analysis of relevant risk factors like obesity.
(2) My research team at Johns Hopkins worked with the nonprofit FAIR Health to research approximately 48,000 children under 18 diagnosed with Covid in health-insurance data from April to August 2020.
Our report found a fatality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition like leukemia.
If that trend holds, it's significant implications for healthy kids and whether or not they need two vaccine doses. The National Education Association has been debating whether to urge schools to want vaccination before returning to high school face to face. How can they or anyone debate the difficulty without the proper data?
(3) Organizations and politicians who are wanting to get every living American vaccinated are following the CDC without understanding the constraints of the methodology.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky claimed that vaccinating 1,000,000 adolescent kids would prevent 200 hospitalizations and one death over four months.
But the agency’s Covid adolescent hospitalization report, like its death count, doesn’t distinguish on the web site whether a toddler is hospitalized for Covid or with Covid. the following Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of that analysis revealed that 45.7% “were hospitalized for reasons that may not are primarily related” to Covid-19.
Hospitals routinely test patients being admitted for other complaints whether or not there’s no reason to suspect they need Covid. An asymptomatic child who tests positive after being injured in an exceedingly bicycle accident would be counted as a “Covid hospitalization.”
(4) The CDC might also be under capturing data on vaccine complications. The CDC’s risk-benefit analysis for vaccinating all children used rates of complications extrapolated from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database, referred to as Vaers, which contains raw, self-reported data that's unverified and sure under-reports adverse events. The CDC or the Food and Drug Administration should expeditiously assign doctors to research each of the thousands of vaccine complications reported to Vaers.
(5) Authorities should also consider whether a single-vaccine dose may be a safer option for healthy kids. Researchers at Tel Aviv-Jaffa University reported that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine was 100% effective against infection in kids 12 to fifteen. Not only has the CDC refused to look at the chance of a one-dose regimen for minors; Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff told me he was come into being the advisory committee working party on Covid-vaccine safety after he expressed a opinion.
(6) The CDC’s poor performance isn’t limited to kids or vaccine safety. Early within the pandemic the CDC left us all flying blind by not reporting the medical conditions of these who died of Covid. Collecting this information early would have made it easier to guard nursing-home residents and patients with nephrosis or diabetes. It took until March 2021 for the CDC to report that 78% of Covid hospitalizations were among overweight or obese patients.
(7) Most striking, the CDC has never systematically collected and reported the No. 1 index of the pandemic—daily new hospitalizations for Covid sickness.
Instead, the CDC offers the lagging indicator of hospitalization for anyone who tests positive for Covid.
(8) The CDC data on natural-immunity rates is similarly disappointing.
The CDC reports this measure in fragments on their website, but it’s outdated and a few states are listed as having “no data available.” The low priority given to the current indicator is according to how public-health officials have played down and ignored resistance in their drive to urge everyone vaccinated.
(9) Given the tremendous resources of the CDC and FDA, which together employ 39,000, these agencies should be ready to report the statistics needed to form informed policy decisions. If the information are incomplete or flawed, so too are the choices derived from them. The vaccine’s benefits may outweigh its risks for healthy kids, but the govt. shouldn’t try and push that conclusion supported faulty data.
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