Florida's Surgeon General Takes a Stand on Child Covid Vaccinations
Florida Joins the European Consensus Despite the CDC
On Monday Ron DeSantis held another round table discussion with doctors and scientists regarding Covid with the theme being “The Curtain Close on Covid Theater” and in particular how these policies relate to children. The attendees included the original signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration, authors of the Urgency of Normal, and the newly appointed Surgeon General of Florida, Dr. Joseph Ladapo.
While there was a wide ranging hour long discussion, what made news was the Florida Surgeon General announcing that the Florida Department of Health will officially recommend against the Covid vaccination for healthy children in the state of Florida.
As you can imagine this sent the media into a firestorm...
Whitehouse Press Secratary Jen Psaki was asked about it and she bemoaned how “deeply disturbing” it was that there were "politicians peddling conspiracy theories out there and casting doubt on vaccinations".
But understanding that the benefits and risks of vaccination vary between individuals is not a conspiracy.
In fact, as Urgency of Normal author Tracy Hoeg put it, anyone who is pro vaccine should want the benefit-risk of vaccination to make sense.
As a recent study she helped to publish shows, due to the risk of myo/pericarditis associated with the Covid vaccine, the benefit-risk ratio varys dramatically based on age, sex, comorbidities & history of infection. Also of great importance is the variant of Covid in circulation. Omicron evades vaccinated immunity to a much larger degree than past variants which further tilts the benefit-risk ratio.
Among the study’s finds are that:
For boys without a medical comorbidity, the analysis suggests that the risks of a second dose exceed the benefits of additional hospitalizations prevented during both delta and omicron.
Among boys with a history of prior infection and no comorbidities, the risks of myo/pericarditis after even dose one appear to outweigh the benefits in both delta and omicron.
The findings strongly support individualized pediatric Covid-19 vaccination strategies which is what the Surgeon General of Florida supports.
It's also what many countries around the world support. Most European countries have not approved the Covid vaccination for healthy kids under 12 and many have yet to approve the vaccine for health people under 18.
Even the FDA panel which approved the vaccine for children 5 to 11 suggested that it did not make much dance for healthy children.
None of this is a conspiracy theory. This is what actual science looks like. The press secretary and the Biden administration at large are purposefully obfuscating the issue and smearing the Surgeon General of Florida for perceived political gain.
Surgeon General Ladapo describes the issue as:
"This Incredible battle we have between individual rights and individual choice, and truth on one side, and overarching powers, overarching government, abusive powers, abusive data, dishonesty and frankly a lot of unethical behavior on the other side."
Compare this to the political treatment of other Covid issues. In New York City the only persons lift under a mask mandate are 2 to 4 year olds in preschool and daycare. Look how NYC Mayor Eric Adams goes about explaining this:
Adams tries to explain that the masks are necessary for 2 to 4 year olds so the city doesn't close down again...
Really?, well in that case I think Jen Psaki is looking in the wrong place for the conspiracy theories...
Anyway 0 and 2...