Makary and Saphier: Final Verdict on Child Vaccinations
A must read.
Dr. Saphier is an assistant professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and editor-in-chief of MedPage Today.
Their WSJ op-ed today is very good. They come down on the side of some child vaccinations but the warnings they strike are sound and excellent.
Marty tweets:
Makary goes on to note:
CDC: 94 Covid deaths/2yrs (incl when Tx was crude & Covid rates higher) out of 28M kids5-11. Nearly all likely had a comorb (extrap from our prior study, adolesc hosp study/known under-coding of obesity, word on the ground). CDC still won't tell us # child deaths in healthy kids.
He notes:
Based on the data of kids w/ NO comorbid, an estimated 0-10 kids 5-11 have ever died of Covid VS. Approx 15 would die from the vax 2nd dose (extrap from adolescents). The case to vax kids w/a comorbid is strong. The case for a 2nd vax dose in healthy kids is far from compelling
“If a child already had Covid, there’s no scientific basis for vaccination" The documented risks of a 2nd dose in the NEJM and from other sources simply do not outweigh the benefits in this sub-population.
Makary is still off base. His statement "Vax deaths could approximate Covid deaths in boys 5-11 w/no comorb" [sic] ignores the very real and proven dangers of the vaccine, and >18,000 deaths on VAERS, to each age group vaccinated so far. Healthy children have no concerning risk from COVID, as Makary acknowledges. But giving them heart disease from this known microclot-inducing injection is a very real danger.
It's no longer debatable that we are in a battle of of ideas, we're in a war of good against unimaginable evil.