Shielding Big Pharma?

If you doubt the influence that Big Pharma has on the FDA and CDC pay attention to any decision the CDC makes on adding the Covid vaccines to the standard childhood immunization schedule.

The CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee is scheduled to hold a meeting today and tomorrow (October 19 and 20) in which it may vote to add the Covid vaccines to the childhood immunization schedule.

Why would this be done?

After all, almost three years into the pandemic it would seem to almost everyone that children are at almost no serious risks of severe illness or death from Covid.

There have only been about 1,300 deaths attributed to Covid from children age 0-17 in the last three years.

That works out to less than 500 deaths per year in a population of over 73 million.

For perspective, there are about 900 drowning deaths in children each year.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/

You can also barely see the number of hospitalizations for Covid among children in this CDC chart.

Source: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/covidnet/covid19_5.html

Children 0-17 have made up less than 3% of total Covid hospitalizations even though that age demographic represents about 22% of the total U.S. population.

Despite a massive advertising campaign and immense pressure from public health authorities, it appears most parents have determined that any benefits of the Covid vaccine for the their children is not worth the potential risks of the injections.

Only 2.6% of children less than 5 years old have been fully vaccinated with the initial two doses.

Less than one-third of those ages 5-11 have been fully vaccinated.

60% in the 12-17 age group are fully vaccinated.

Meanwhile in Denmark the Covid vaccine is now banned for anyone under age 18.

It has been determined that the risks outweigh the benefits except in rare circumstances.

In Norway, Covid vaccines are only recommended for those over 16 years of age.

It took more than seven years after the polio vaccine was first administered in trials before that vaccine was recommended for use by children.

Considering that the Covid vaccines have been authorized for children 11 years and under for less than one year, and the extremely low probability of severe disease in children, what could be the reason to add this vaccine to the standard childhood immunization schedule?

You might be interested to know Pharma companies only receive liability protection for vaccines if they are authorized under an "emergency use" authorization or the vaccines are on the CDC's childhood immunization schedule.

We are still officially under a "public health emergency" that has been in effect since January, 20202. The PHE order was recently extended through January 11, 2023.

As things now stand, it might be hard to justify another extension after that date.

That would then mean that any liability protection for the vaccine makers would expire at that time.

Unless the vaccines are added to the childhood immunization schedule before them.

That liability protection then extends to any of the vaccines that are also given to adults.

Therefore, if the vaccines are added to the childhood schedule you have to ask whether it is being done more to protect Big Pharma than our children?

Instead of providing protection for our children might we actually be about to use them as a shield for Big Pharma?

Could it also be that the move might be done to help the lagging current vaccine efforts where we are already seeing the latest bivalent booster uptake to have flatlined?

Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends

It might also be because 75% of the FDA's drug division budget is funded by the pharmaceutical companies it regulates.

The CDC is also known to have taken millions of dollars of funding from Big Pharma through the CDC Foundation that was conditional and specifically earmarked for promotion of the contributing company's products.

In any other sphere of life these potential conflicts of interest would be reason alone to question the integrity of the decisions and guidance being offered.

Will we hear any questions asked of the CDC and FDA if the Covid vaccines somehow end up on the childhood vaccine schedule by the end of the week?

Put me down as saying that is extremely unlikely.