Despite Massive Push, Survey Finds Just 29% Of Parents Want COVID Vaccine For Kids By Matt Agorist for Natural Blaze
The number of individuals who die of a disease among all infected individuals both symptomatic and asymptomatic is known as the Infection Fatality Ratio (IFR). For COVID-19, it is widely known that age plays a massive factor in fatalities. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the IFR for children is almost zero (0.002%) which means it is extremely rare for a child to contract and die of COVID-19.
The near-zero IFR for children during COVID-19 was a huge relief to parents across the world. Because the infection rate among children was so low, schools were able to safely reopen in 2020, with some states never closing them at all. Despite fear mongering from the mainstream media, schools were not the “super spreader” events that the pro-lockdown crowd made them out to be.
Had children been flooding the emergency rooms sick with COVID-19, rest assured this pandemic would have played out far differently. Thankfully, this was not the case, however, and the overwhelming majority of children remained completely safe.
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In 2020, as vaccine manufacturers rushed to bring their COVID-19 vaccines to market, none of them conducted trials in children. This was due to two things: children are not as vulnerable as adults, and the FDA only granted emergency use authorization for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for those aged 16 and older. The Moderna and Janssen vaccines were granted emergency use for those 18 and older.
In March 2021, however, all that began to change and Pfizer announced clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine on healthy children aged 6 months to 11. Johnson & Johnson and Moderna made similar announcements as well.
“Pfizer has deep experience in advancing clinical trials of vaccines in children and infants and is committed to improving the health and well-being of children through thoughtfully designed clinical trials,” the company said in a statement.
But this statement above rings hollow given Pfizer’s less than stellar (and in fact criminal) record. Pfizer has paid out billions in health care fraud fines and was party to the largest health care fraud settlement in US history.
The pharmaceutical giant paid out $2.3 billion in 2009 to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products.
“Pfizer violated the law over an extensive time period. Furthermore, at the very same time Pfizer was in our office negotiating and resolving the allegations of criminal conduct by its then newly acquired subsidiary, Warner-Lambert, Pfizer was itself in its other operations violating those very same laws,” Mike Loucks, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts said at the time.
