Now it is Covid Jabbing Babies! By Mrs Vera West
Big Pharma looks like getting its way for having babies as young as six months given the Covid jab. The jab for children is already in the bag, so naturally not a single human stone must be left unturned. In my opinion, this is all unspeakable foolishness given the adverse effects and deaths that we have already seen, for who knows what longer term ill-effects lie down the time track?
“Pfizer's Covid vaccine could be rolled out to babies as young as six months in the US this winter, under plans being drawn up by the pharmaceutical giant.
In a move likely to cause international controversy, the company intends to apply for authorisation to immunise American infants within the next two months.
The timeline will depend on the findings of in-house trials looking into whether the vaccines are safe and effective in youngsters aged six months to five years.
Frank D'Amelio, chief financial officer at Pfizer, told an industry conference yesterday that the firm plans to 'go file' by November, the Financial Times reports.
'We would expect to have... data for children between the ages of six months and five years old that we would file with the FDA,' D'Amelio said at the Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference. 'I'll call it in the weeks shortly thereafter the filing of the data for the five- to 11-year-olds.'
Pfizer was already planning to seek approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the jabs to be given in children aged five to 11 by October.
But the latest comments confirm the firm's intention to work its way down much younger age groups. They will be given a lower dose than adults.
Pfizer's jab, made alongside German partner BioNTech, is already approved for over-12s in Britain.
There is no publicly available safety data on babies given the Pfizer jab. Extremely rare events are normally only spotted when vaccines are rolled out on a national scale.
Pfizer and Moderna are due to release safety data on trials of children aged five to 11 in the coming weeks.
The Pfizer vaccine given to children is weaker than the version given to adults, with those aged between six months and five years injected with a 3 microgram vaccine.
Six to 11-year-olds are given 10 micrograms, while children over 12 and adults receive the full 30 micrograms.
Preliminary trials of the Pfizer vaccine in young children suggests it is safe, but there are ethical concerns as well as fears about the small risk of side complications.
For teenage children and young adults, there is about a less than one in 10,000 risk of heart inflammation known as myocarditis.
While the vast majority of people who get myocarditis are treated within days, it's unclear what the long-term effects are.
The US has been vaccinating children aged 12 and above since the start of the summer and elementary-aged pupils are expected to be given the jabs in the fall.
Britain only this week signed off on those plans, with officials claiming the benefit was only 'marginal' because Covid poses such a low risk to children.
British children under 16 are only being offered one dose of Pfizer's vaccine, until more data has been gathered on the safety of giving them two doses.
There are also ethical questions about vaccinating youngsters mostly to protect older adults.
Latest official US data shows that in the week ending August 14, the Covid hospitalisation rate among children aged four or younger was just 2.2 per 100,000.
That was more than six times lower than the 15.8 per 100,000 rate among the highly-vaccinated over-65 age group.
In states reporting pediatric cases, children have accounted for fewer than 0.25 per cent of all Covid deaths.
Seven states have reported no child deaths, while other states reported that children made up as low as 0.03 per cent of all fatalities, according to analysis by National Public Radio.
American children between the ages of five and 11 could be eligible for the Covid vaccine by the end of October, according to the former head of the FDA.
Scott Gottlieb, who headed the FDA under former President Donald Trump and now sits on the board of directors at Pfizer, says that the emergency use approval process for vaccinating young children could be done in a matter of weeks.
Gottlieb says the pharmaceutical giant is expected to file the paperwork with the federal government requesting authorization to vaccinate kids as early as September.”
“Political talk show host Kim Iversen, on a segment of the Kim Iversen Show Wednesday, called the latest COVID data coming out of Israel “alarming and shocking.”
Iversen reminded viewers that Israel was nearly fully vaccinated by February, after striking a deal with Pfizer to make its citizens “essentially … a giant study group.”
“They have very high vaccination rates in the country,” Iversen said. “Kids are still not vaccinated. There are some super ultra-Orthodox holdouts, but otherwise everybody in Israel banded together and they took the Pfizer vaccine — two doses.”
But by summer, Iversen said, Israel health officials determined the vaccine had worn off. “They saw skyrocketing numbers of cases, even after they’d hit this so-called herd immunity threshold of 70%.”
At first, Iversen said, it looked as though the vaccines might at least be protecting against more severe symptoms, because for the most part, only the unvaccinated were having to be hospitalized.
“But then as time went on … the hospitals started to fill up with fully vaccinated people,” Iversen said, “and they saw more and more cases among the fully vaccinated, and more and more of them becoming very severe to the point where the majority of their cases in the hospitals and in the ICU and those dying were fully vaccinated people.”
Iversen has been tracking data in multiple countries besides Israel, including Iceland, Chile, Seychelles, Uruguay and others.
“I have a whole list of countries that I’ve been monitoring on this,” she said. “And it was really clear early on that the vaccine was not stopping the spread, but it did seem to keep people out of the hospital for a period of time.”
But then Israel found the vaccine was wearing off — so they told everybody they would need a third, booster shot, “in order to participate in society,” Iversen said.
That seemed to work for a while — but now cases are rising again.
“I don’t know what to make of that, “Iversen said. “And I’m not going to speculate. I’m just going to share the data and I’m going to keep watching that data. And we’re going to see what happens. I mean, at this point, that’s all we can do. All we can do is see what happens now.”
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