LAST week the Global Health Now newsletter of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University provided a link to an Associated Press article which ran with: ‘COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women in U.S. CDC guidelines, per a decision by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’
‘Rejoice, rejoice!’ as Margaret Thatcher once said. We have been warning of the dangers to mothers-to-be of the experimental mRNA vaccines in these pages for some time. There is little evidence that they are necessary and they most likely offer no protection to pregnant women. Moreover, they are potentially harmful to both the baby in the womb and to the mothers. As for healthy children, they are at virtually no risk from covid, so why bother or take the risk vaccinating them?
But, although you might think experienced journalists like those at Associated Press would dig deeper, providing evidence for and possibly against the decision by RFK Jr, they don’t. The main comment made regarding the decision was that RFK Jr ‘did not cite any research or further details that informed the decision’. They proceed, without providing any evidence of effectiveness of covid vaccines themselves or their necessity for children and pregnant mothers, to roll out the usual misinformation regarding covid itself.
They quote Michael Osterholm, who directs the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (the CIDRAP newsletter is one of our favourite sources of misinformation about covid) who said: ‘There’s no new data or information, just them flying by the seat of their pants.’ This is followed by the ‘big scary numbers’ tactic saying: ‘More than 1.2million people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19, most of them elderly’, which would seem to make RFK Jr.’s point for him.
Ah, but they say: ‘Children haven’t been spared: The coronavirus has been the underlying cause in more than 1,300 childhood deaths since the pandemic began.’ Even those prepared to believe that covid is as dangerous as it has been presented must ask the question about how healthy these children were in the first place. And, given how effective (and safe) the vaccines are supposed to be, why did so many children die? How many of these children were covid-vaccinated and was the jab not supposed to save them?
In support of vaccinating pregnant women, Dr Steven Fleischman, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, is quoted as saying: ‘It is very clear that COVID infection during pregnancy can be catastrophic and lead to major disability, and it can cause devastating consequences for families.’ Again, even if that is true, what possible excuse can there be for injecting an experimental substance which is known to offer next to no protection against covid into a woman carrying a developing baby in her womb?
In the UK many Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology added their signature in 2022 to a letter which said, regarding the rollout of covid vaccines to pregnant women, that the advice to do so ‘is not grounded in robust data based on ethically conducted research’ and called for a ‘stop to covid vaccination of pregnant women over serious safety concerns.’
It is striking that while RFK Jr is criticised for providing no evidence to support the decision to stop recommending covid vaccines for children and pregnant women, the mainstream media and public health authorities continue to advocate these vaccines despite a similar lack of robust evidence for their safety and effectiveness in these populations. The double standard is glaring: RFK Jr is condemned for a supposed absence of data, yet the same standard is not applied to those who insist on the widespread use of experimental vaccines with, at best, limited or questionable evidence of benefit.
There is a fundamental inconsistency in how risk, evidence, and public policy are debated in the context of covid. It also perpetuates suspicion that public health decisions have largely been made not in the best interests of those they are meant to protect, but to protect the profits of the Big Pharma vaccine-industrial complex. Perhaps we are beginning to see the end of that mentality, with the inevitable backlash. Rejoice, rejoice!
