The White House is making plans to have your children, ages 5 to 11, vaccinated, even before the FDA authorizes Pfizer’s kid vaccine for emergency use:
NBC NEWS – The Biden administration on Wednesday announced its plan for vaccinating children ages 5 to 11 ahead of the FDA’s anticipated emergency use authorization of the Pfizer vaccine for kids in that age range.
The administration has procured enough vaccine for 28 million children of that age group, which will be given by more than 25,000 pediatric and primary care providers, the White House said. The Department of Health and Human Services is also teaming up with the Children’s Hospital Association to set up at least 100 vaccination clinics to administer the shots.
In addition, tens of thousands of pharmacies will offer the vaccine, and the administration will work to make the shots available at hundreds of schools and community health centers.
Earlier this month, the White House told governors to expect to begin vaccinations for the 5-to-11 age group in early November. The Biden administration bought 65 million pediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, enough to give shots to the estimated 28 million children in that age range who would be eligible if the Food and Drug Administration authorizes its use.
An FDA advisory committee is expected to meet next week to discuss the request by the pharmaceutical companies to authorize the use of their vaccine for those kids.
It has always been my understanding that children in this age group are least affected by COVID, yet the White House is insisting on getting them vaccinated.
Ben Shapiro cited Dr. Marty Makary from John Hopkins this morning noting that only 10-20 without significant pre-existing conditions children have actually died of COVID:
According to @MartyMakary, a grand total of 10-20 children without significant pre-existing conditions have died of covid-19 in the United States over the entire course of the pandemic. https://t.co/KyqlHDFwea
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 20, 2021
And yet Biden is pushing this new vaccine on children. By the way, has anyone checked to see if Hunter is on the board at Pfizer?
Shapiro continues to explain why he thinks this push to vaccinate children is “rather extraordinary”:
I have kids who are 7, 5, and 1. I get the case for vaccinating — I'm extremely pro-vaccination generally. We also have no longitudinal data on this vaccine for kids; we also know that the government is pushing two shots, but most myocarditis in teens is showing up in shot 2.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 20, 2021
The risk from serious covid problems for young children is very low. It might be right for your kids — maybe with one dose, as @MartyMakary suggests — but it might not. This is not clear-cut like being 75+. I greatly fear that the mandate push will extend to this age group.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 20, 2021
Furthermore, the notion that we should both mask and vaxx kids, as Rochelle Walensky is now suggesting, is fully insane. There is no limiting principle here.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 20, 2021
The logic that we *must* vaxx kids so grandparents don't get sick also has no limiting principle. Kids are sick *all* the time. If you have immunocompromised grandparents, you're taking extra precautions anyway. If you choose to vaxx, your choice. But it must be a choice.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 20, 2021
Again, this is coming from parents (me and my wife) who will get their children the flu vaccine. But flu is more dangerous to kids than covid, and flu vaccines have more data than covid vaccines. So this isn't about being "anti-vaxx." It's about being pro-risk assessment.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 20, 2021
This is also coming from someone who is quite pro-mass vaccination for MMR, DTap, etc. That's because those are CHILDHOOD diseases. It's not about achieving herd immunity for an entire population in which the risk is largely relegated to the elderly.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 20, 2021
*And* in which disease eradication is already acknowledged to be impossible. The notion that we are going to vaxx all kids to kill covid, which is already endemic, is rather extraordinary.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 20, 2021