@Techno_Fog
The FDA seems ready to approve the Pfizer vaccine for kids aged 5-11.
But there's a problem:
Pfizer admitted it hasn't tested the long-term efficacy - or the long-term risks.
ARTICLE:
'''Is the FDA about to approve an experimental COVID vaccine for kids?==
Private profits over public health.
Techno Fog
On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, the FDA is meeting “to discuss a request to amend Pfizer-BioNTech’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for administration of their COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to children 5 through 11 years of age.”
In anticipation of this meeting (and to illuminate the real reason why Pfizer is seeking the EUA), we offer a rare point of agreement in our polarized world. One that damns both the FDA and Pfizer: healthy children aren’t threatened by COVID-19.
As compared to adults, children are less prone to get COVID, they are less prone to be hospitalized by COVID, and they are far less likely to die from COVID.
This is supported by CDC data (quoted by Pfizer), which shows that for children aged 5-11 years-old, there have been 1.8 million COVID-19 cases and only 138 deaths. By comparison, approximately double that amount of children have died of pneumonia during this same time period. For those children hospitalized with COVID-19, the vast majority had more than one underlying condition (chronic lung disease, obesity, or neurologic disorders).
According to NY Magazine, “among children the mortality risk from COVID-19 is actually lower than from the flu. The risk of severe disease or hospitalization is about the same.”
One study published in Nature estimated “that the infection fatality ration [of COVID-19] is lowest among 5–9-year-old children.”
That same publication has noted that children just aren’t safe from serious COVID-19 infection. Children “aren’t driving viral spread” and they don’t get infected or spread the infection like adults. For example, studies of some schools in Nebraska showed “were open the whole year with over 20,000 students and staff, and there were only 2 transmission events during that entire study period.”
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https://technofog.substack.com/p/is-the-fda-about-to-approve-an-experimental