The COVID Public Health ‘Education’ Campaign: CDC’s Push to Boost Children
In the previous article, we learned about The House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s report “‘We Can Do This,’ COVID-19 Public Health Campaign” – and how the Biden-Harris administration’s failed COVID-19 policy led to a distrust in government public health policies.
Biden Administration did not follow the science in promoting vaccinating children
While the Biden administration was enforcing vaccine mandates, the “We Can Do This” Campaign increased its messaging of promoting vaccines for children. The Campaign used social media influencers, celebrities, and television doctors to promote COVID-19 vaccinations. Locations were provided, nationally, where children could get vaccinated. Advertisements and blogs sought to emotionally strongarm parents to vaccinate their children through misleading statistics and anecdotal stories of personal tragedies, and even monetary incentives.
The recent article published nationwide, and in The Union as well, titled, “Some Americans need more than one COVID booster this season, CDC says,” states:
“Everyone over the age of six months should receive one dose of the 2024-2025 booster shot.”
“Children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years who have not been vaccinated are considered ‘up-to-date’ once they have received a full course of the Pfizer vaccines (three shots) or the full course of Moderna vaccines (two shots).”
“Kids between the ages of 5 and 11 years are up-to-date once they have received the 2024-2025 booster from either Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech.
When survey findings showed that between 60-76% of parents of unvaccinated children under 18 years old were concerned about side effects, the Campaign set up interviews with doctors. The “Ask a Doctor” sessions used a prominent doctor or health professional whose answers to questions only aligned with CDC’s recommendation for COVID vaccines and boosters.
“Instead of engaging in balanced discussion around the benefits and risks associated with vaccinating children, the doctor or health professional provided a one-sided response where they overstated the rate and severity of COVID-19 infections in children, pushed booster shots, and downplayed potential vaccine side effects.”
Children, who’s parents chose not to vaccinate, were taken out of school even when studies showed children were not main spreaders of COVID. What we knew early on is vaccination did not stop the spread of new variants.
Government scientists resigned over Biden Administration failure to follow the science
In a Lancet Journal article, following their resignations, Dr. Marion Gruber, former director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccine Research and her deputy, Dr. Philip Krause, publicly criticized the Biden administration’s plan to administer booster vaccinations to the general population, stating:
“Current evidence does not, therefore, appear to show a need for boosting in the general population, in which efficacy against severe disease remains high.”
“Thus, any decisions about the need for boosting or timing of boosting should be based on careful analyses of adequately controlled clinical or epidemiological data, or both, indicating a persistent and meaningful reduction in severe disease, with a benefit–risk evaluation that considers the number of severe cases that boosting would be expected to prevent, along with evidence about whether a specific boosting regimen is likely to be safe and effective against currently circulating variants.”
As a parent, wouldn’t you want to know the ‘Emergency Authorized’ vaccines and boosters had been sufficiently tested?
CDC overcounted COVID deaths
In March of 2022, the CDC admitted to overcounting COVID-19 deaths. This overcounting was associated with a faulty algorithm in the CDC COVID Data Tracker’s mortality data. Overcounting applied to death tallies in all age-groups, ‘including children’. After the CDC recalculated, the number of pediatric deaths decreased by 24 percent.
Scientific studies conclude COVID 99.995% survival rate among children and youth
A July 2021 article in Nature Medicine concluded that SARS-CoV-2 infection is “rarely fatal in children and young people,” with a 99.995% survival rate among those infected.
The Campaign’s messaging pressured parents into believing their children were facing life-or-death scenarios. By using artificially inflated child mortality rates, the Campaign greatly overstated the threat facing children thus striking unnecessary fear into parents everywhere.
“The fact that HHS’s COVID-19 pandemic policies, guidance, and recommendations, including Campaign messaging, were grounded in incorrect data generated by a faulty algorithm that had inflated the number of COVID-19 deaths, shattered HHS’s remaining credibility.”
It followed that the risk of removing children and young people from their normal activities, social events, and school might prove a greater risk than COVID. Tragically, this has turned out to be true.
Despite the science, CDC continues to recommend COVID vaccine to children
The CDC continues to recommend booster shots for all children ages six months and older, making the United States an outlier amongst its international peers. Despite the recommendation, only about five percent of children under age 12 are up to date on their boosters.
Nevada County Health and Human Services still uses the CDC recommendation of COVID vaccines for children despite overwhelming evidence showing children are low-risk. I have asked our county health department and Dr. Sherilyn Cooke to update current data regarding the necessity of boosters on the website. There has been zero response.
I encourage every parent to read the “We Can Do This” report and decide if COVID boosters are right for your children. Parents should be the deciders.
