According to the two people who spoke to Politico on condition of anonymity, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has advocated internally to have the CDC stop recommending COVID-19 vaccines for children, arguing there is little scientific evidence that the shot provides a benefit to babies and young children.

 

Source: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-wants-cdc-stop-recommending-covid-shots-kids/

 

My comment > Of course RFK Jr. should have done this on Day-1 of his tenure.   But I understand that he has to tread carefully 

 

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Two excerpts from the article:

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The CDC’s current Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule recommends that children as young as 6 months old get vaccinated against COVID-19 with three doses of Pfizer’s shot or two doses of Moderna’s shot.

The CDC also recommends children 6 months and up receive an annual booster dose at least eight weeks after the most recent dose.

Removing the COVID-19 shot from the CDC schedule wouldn’t bar kids from receiving the vaccine, Politico said.

However, the move would likely have large ramifications as state and local authorities look to the CDC schedule when deciding vaccine requirements for students.

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‘The vaccine was never needed’ for kids

Pediatrician Dr. Michelle Perro supported removing the shot from the CDC’s vaccine schedule for kids.

“Children possess a robust and highly adaptive innate immune system that has consistently shown effective protection against SARS-CoV-2, with severe outcomes exceedingly rare to near zero in healthy pediatric populations,” she said.

Perro said there is a vast amount of documented harm following COVID-19 vaccination, including myocarditis, pericarditis, dysregulated immune responses and neurological injury.

“These findings have always called for the cessation and re-evaluation of risk-benefit ratios, which never happened, especially in light of the fact that natural immunity in children offers durable protection and the vaccine was never needed,” Perro said.

As of March 28, there were over 56, 000 reports of injuries or deaths following COVID-19 vaccination among kids 17 years and under filed in the Vaccine Adverse Event System (VAERS).

 

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Just who do this unscientific CDC rabble think they are?

 

I agree with the OP that this should have been done on day one.

 

Jeez! C'om Kennedy; get some action going. You have the authority; get with it.

2 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

My comment > Of course RFK Jr. should have done this on Day-1 of his tenure.   But I understand that he has to tread carefully 

 

I think that recommending mRNA for kids is one of the reasons that the CDC has lost so much credibility with the public.  Which, unfortunately, has leaked over to many other discussions.

 

B B But somewhere, some random baby died.

 

 

 

Kennedy might pull the COVID shot for kids: Good!!!

If the CDC doesn't pull it, it is a problem

> My comment: Prof dr Vinay PRASAD is one of the few mainstream voices that have not lost their mind or integrity, and has the balls to speak his mind.

 

Source: https://www.drvinayprasad.com/p/kennedy-might-pull-the-covid-shot

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> The media coverage of changes around COVID-19 vaccination speaks poorly of the media. First make no mistake: the CDC should ABSOLUTELY remove COVID-19 from the Childhood Immunization schedule. It if stays, it shows the United States is a corrupt country: because there is no randomized evidence that kids ever benefit (in terms of real clinical outcomes) from this shot, and no evidence of any sort that a kid born today will need one in the future, and this shot earns some companies money.

 

Yet, in the article, I was disappointed to read this quote by Paul Offit, whom I generally respect.

“It’s like in Jurassic Park, when the Tyrannosaurus rex keeps checking where in the fence is a weakness,” said Paul Offit, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “He could do a lot of harm. I think he will do a lot of harm unless somebody stops him.”

Removing an unproven vaccine from the schedule, and one that is widely not accepted in Europe is not akin to letting a t-rex escape, but rather an important course correction. Medicine must admit when we make mistakes. If anything, removing unnecessary shots from the childhood schedule will bring focus to the necessary ones, such as measles.

Next, look at this. The CDC is finally contemplating what it should have done ALL ALONG. The COVID shot should only ever have been recommended to populations with a net benefit.

It is astonishing that this is remotely controversial. As you well, know, I, and some of my colleagues, have been saying this all along.

 

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If you like RFK Jnr and have an open mind I recommend you watch John Oliver's show this week on what he has done thus far. It's worse than I thought.