The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci keep pushing hard for all healthy children to have four doses of the COVID vaccine despite the lack of clinical outcomes data to support the recommendation.
If public-health officials get their way, every healthy 12-year-old girl in America will get 70 COVID-vaccine doses in her average lifespan, with a risk of heart damage (myocarditis) after each shot.
Instead of following the science, US officials continue to propagate old myths that vaccines prevent transmission and that myocarditis is more common after COVID than after the vaccine — not true.
Myocarditis is four to 28 times more common after the vaccine in a cohort of young males, a recent JAMA Cardiology study found.
In a University of Basel study, asymptomatic heart damage occurred in 2.8% of people after the COVID booster as measured by a Troponin test.
You may have missed these studies because we now know Big Tech was censoring any “vaccine-hesitant content,” even medical research.
It’s unethical to expose children to the risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis when nearly all children have already had COVID.
Children have circulating antibodies that neutralize the virus, but they are antibodies the government does not recognize.
The CDC director can’t even tell us if any healthy child has ever died of COVID (she refused to provide the data when asked in a congressional hearing).
In a German population study, no healthy children aged 5 to 17 died of COVID (all deaths were in kids with a comorbid condition).
US public-health officials are not only misinformation spreaders — they’re international outliers.
The World Health Organization last week came as close as it’s ever come to saying healthy children should not get the COVID vaccine, deeming the shot a low priority for healthy young people.
WHO is also worried that the absolutism by which the COVID vaccine is being pushed for healthy young people is damaging credibility and resulting in lower rates of regular child immunizations.
Most Americans may be shocked to learn the Moderna COVID vaccine has been banned or restricted in parts of Europe for people under age 30.
Denmark and Sweden have officially recommended against vaccinating healthy children for COVID.
Other countries have also been cautious about recommending it given the myocarditis risk — but not America.
Tragically, I continue to hear from parents around the country of schools and universities (including my own) kicking healthy students out or blocking them from enrolling if they don’t have a COVID booster.
Cornell just announced it’s dropping its booster requirement but still mandating the primary vaccine series for incoming freshmen next year.
Ironic, since universities are supposed to have smart people.
Sure, myocarditis after the vaccine is usually mild.
But that’s not reassuring if you are the patient in the ICU.
In a New England Journal of Medicine analysis of 136 people hospitalized for vaccine-induced myocarditis, two were in critical condition and one 22-year-old died.
The CDC, instead of making public its investigations into children dying immediately after the COVID vaccine, has been busy colluding with Big Tech to shut down scientific debate and censor true patient stories.
Specifically, it’s been slapping the misinformation label on medical viewpoints when they differ from its own Ministry of Truth.
Indeed, the biggest propagator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the US federal government.
Public-health officials beclowned themselves last month by insisting Novak Djokovic could not travel to Florida to play tennis outdoors because he’s not vaccinated.
This Biden administration position embodies everything wrong with public-health policy today:
- Ignoring natural immunity.
- Downplaying vaccine-induced myocarditis in young males.
- Ignoring data on how extremely low risk the virus is for healthy young people.
- Rejecting data that vaccines don’t prevent transmission.
- Creating vaccine hesitancy by arrogantly insisting on vaccine mandates.
- Damaging the public-health trust by being so out of touch with reality.
- Crying wolf by endlessly renewing a state of emergency.
When COVID became epidemic in northern Italy before it spread in the United States, Americans argued we would fare better with the virus because of American exceptionalism.
Well, our public-health leaders have indeed proven just how exceptional they can be in ignoring myocarditis, ignoring natural immunity and demanding that all healthy children get endless doses of the COVID vaccine without supporting data.
Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author of “The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care and How to Fix It.”