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The Epoch Times: Children Shouldn’t Get COVID-19 Vaccines, Harvard Professor Says
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Real science is never settled, and anyone who has certainty on such things is not qualified to discuss it.
This one will light hair on fire.
The Epoch Times: Children Shouldn’t Get COVID-19 Vaccines, Harvard Professor Says
2021-10-27
Children should not get vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19, according to Harvard University professor of medicine Martin Kulldorff.
“I don’t think children should be vaccinated for COVID. I’m a huge fan of vaccinating children for measles, for mumps, for polio, for rotavirus, and many other diseases, that’s critical. But COVID is not a huge threat to children,” he said on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. The full episode can be watched on EpochTV.
“They can be infected, just like they can get the common cold, but they’re not a big threat. They don’t die from this, except in very rare circumstances. So if you want to talk about protecting children or keeping children safe, I think we can talk about traffic accidents, for example, which they are really at some risk.
“And there are other things that we should make sure [of] to keep children safe. But COVID is not a big risk factor for children.”
...Children are more likely to contract serious disease or die from the annual influenza, or the flu, than COVID-19, according to data and studies that Kulldorff has reviewed. Just 195 children under the age of 4 and 442 between 5 and 18 have died from COVID-19 in the United States as of Oct. 20, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children are 15 times less likely to be hospitalized with the disease than individuals who are 85 or older, and 570 times less likely to die, the agency says.
“One example is from Sweden, during the first wave in the spring of 2020, which affected Sweden quite strongly,” Kulldorff said. “But Sweden decided to keep daycare and schools open for all children ages 1 to 15. And there are 1.8 million such children who got through the first wave without vaccines, of course, without masks, without any sort of distancing in schools.
“If a child was sick, they were told to stay home. But that was basically it. And you know how many of those 1.8 million children died from COVID? Zero. Only a few hospitalizations. So this is not a risky disease for children.”
...“If you’re 78 years old, then it’s the no-brainer, in my view, because the benefits are so great that even if you have a small risk for some adverse reaction, the benefit far outweighs the risk,” Kulldorff said. “On the other hand, if you have already have immunity from having had COVID, then the benefits of the vaccines are much, much smaller...
WIND: I don’t know anyone can argue that Swedish children are different that American or Armenian or Chinese or African children when it comes to risk for COVID death. The Swedish statistic of zero deaths seems about as solid as it gets.
You can debate endlessly about masks and particulate respirators (for which no credible evidence exists showing value in community transmission), or about vaccine risks. But here we sit staring at mandated vaccinations of 75 million children in the USA, forcing the unknown risks of COVID vaccination against the nil risk of COVID itself. That is insanity.
I’m amazed that Martin Kulldorff remains uncanceled. Voices of reason are highly unpopular these days.
