Healthy Children Don’t Need Covid Vaccines

Florida is right. Especially for kids under 12, the risks are trivial. And most have natural antibodies.

By Allysia Finley. Excerpts:

"abundant scientific evidence that Covid-19 poses a negligible risk to healthy children, which makes it impossible to know if the benefit of vaccination outweighs the risk."

"the infection fatality rate for those under 18 at between 0.0023% and 0.0085%—meaning 2.3 to 8.5 of every 100,000 children who get infected will die. Rates are lowest among those 5 to 11." 

"there were 66 Covid-19 deaths among children 5 to 11 between Oct. 3, 2020, and Oct. 2, 2021—exactly the same number as died from suicide"

"there were 969 deaths in this age group from unintentional injury and 207 from homicide in 2019."

"Polio paralyzes 1 in 200 infected children, and the fatality rate for measles ranges between 0.1% to and 0.3%. That’s why childhood vaccinations are recommended for both. The risk of hospitalization from the flu for children 5 to 11 is 50% higher than from Covid and the related multisystem inflammatory syndrome combined. MIS in rare instances can cause gastrointestinal and cardiovascular symptoms after infection."

"Hospitalizations among children did increase during the Omicron wave relative to previous surges, but they still remained very low—80% lower than among young adults"

"Pfizer’s vaccine for children 5 to 11 after a small trial (about 1,500 kids received Covid shots) found it was 90% effective at preventing symptomatic illness. But the vaccine’s efficacy rapidly waned, even more so than in adults, especially as the Omicron variant spread."

"vaccines showed efficacy against hospitalization among 5- to 11-year-olds, though it declined from 100% in mid-December to 48% by the end of January. But because that risk is so low to begin with, the protection against it doesn’t amount to much."

"The vast majority have already been infected. The CDC estimates that 58% of children under 18 had infection-induced antibodies as of January,"

"63% of children under 18 who tested positive for the virus on PCR tests didn’t generate antibodies in their blood."

"Germany, Norway and Sweden don’t recommend vaccines for healthy children under 12, and the Danish Pediatric Society has urged its government to follow suit."