According to Icelandic online newspaper Fréttin, the Icelandic Medicines Agency has received 107 reports of side-effects of Covid vaccines in children, of which 11 are classified as serious.
A serious adverse effect is defined as an effect of a drug that leads to death, a life-threatening condition, hospitalisation or prolongation of hospitalisation or that causes disability or birth defects in humans. Also, reports that are considered clinically important are classified as serious.
The rate of reported versus experienced adverse effects, as well as the ratio of reported effects that actually are proven to be vaccine-induced, remain unclear, but according to estimates the reporting rate of adverse effects is quite low.
According to one extensive research study, fewer than 1% of adverse effects from vaccines are reported, and in general 1-13% of serious adverse effects from drugs are reported. According to a recent article in the Icelandic Medical Journal, studies show that generally less than 10% of vaccine side-effects are reported.
Fréttin has interviewed a number of people who have been seriously injured after Covid vaccinations and in none of those cases did doctors or health authorities report the events, though in some cases the patients themselves did.
What might then be the actual number and incidence rate of experienced serious adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccines experienced by Icelandic children?
In the five to 11 age-group, 19,083 children have been injected. No serious adverse effects have been reported in that group. A possible explanation might be that fewer children in this group have received two injections and the vaccine dose for this age was smaller.
In the 12-15 age-group, 15,404 children have been injected (79% of 19,499 children), according to the official website. Four cases of serious adverse effects have been reported. If we assume a 1% reporting rate, this means 400 serious events, or one in every 39 children. If we assume a 10% reporting rate, we have 40 cases of serious adverse effects, one in every 385 children.
In the 16-17 age-group, Fréttin reporters assume that 80% have been vaccinated (this age-group is included in the 16-29 group, which has a 90% vaccination rate). Seven serious cases have been reported. Assuming a 1% reporting rate, this means 700 serious events, one in every 11 children. Assuming a 10% reporting rate we have 70 cases of serious adverse effects, one in every 105 children.
In total, 41,814 children aged five to 17 have been injected (68.55% of the total number of children in this age group) and 11 serious adverse effects have been reported. Assuming 1% of serious side effects are reported, this comes to 1,100 serious cases, one in every 38 children. Assuming a 10% reporting rate, we get 110 cases, one in every 380 children.
It is interesting in this context to look at the findings from a recent Icelandic study, SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Icelandic Children, published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. The study period is February 28th 2020 to August 31st 2021.
The researchers followed the outcomes of all children diagnosed with COVID-19 during the study period. They found that infections in schools were rare, no child was hospitalised with COVID-19 and none had severe symptoms. This study is in line with the results of a large Swedish study conducted in 2020 on nearly two million children.
Interestingly, two of the study authors took an active part in pushing for child vaccination early this year, despite their own findings.
As reports of adverse effects are not investigated to determine causation, it is hard to determine what percentage of experienced adverse effects are actually caused by the vaccines. But the number of reports, coupled with the estimated reporting rate, compared with an expected rate of serious adverse effects from flu vaccines of one to two per million, indicates that the incidence is very high in comparison. Even if no underreporting is assumed, it is still a staggering 268 per million. This is similar to recent German figures.
Considering the aforementioned study which found serious complications from COVID-19 in children to be practically non-existent, this raises serious doubts about the continued push for child-vaccination.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an economist who lives in Iceland. Find him on his Substack page.
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I find it impossible not to have a very low impression of people who have jabbed their children.
I assume they care for their children and just see them as intellectually hopeless.
And hopeless as parents.
These are not bad parents. They simply go with what they erroneously believe to be the consensus opinion, which unfortunately is an artificial consensus. If the official “advice” from public health authorities is to jab your child, most will dig no deeper than that, and assume that this is the consensus within the scientific community.
Because, let’s face it, most folk are too busy to plough through scientific journals etc in search of the answer, instead they settle for the Orwellian, over-simplified, bite-sized, emotive mantras about vaccination peddled by the propagandists. No time to think about it. Just book your slot and be done with it. Bury your head in the sand.
There is a level of thought that precedes ploughing through scientific journals. It entails thinking through things and matching the information one gets to one’s common sense and experience.
A few simple and commonly available facts should raise alarm bells instantly.
1. Rapidly developed vaccine
2. Emergency authorisation
3. Liability exemption for producers.
4. No evidence of disease risk to children.
Later on you also have:
5. Reports of serious adverse effects
6. Jabbed people getting sick anyway.
Parents who just listened to advice and never considered the first four I consider mentally very weak.
Anyone still jabbing kids at this stage is completely hopeless.
With you 100% on this, stewart. Any parent whose sceptical side is not immediately triggered in matters concerning their child’s welfare… well, I just can’t feel a single thing in common with them, let’s put it like that.
This isn’t virtue signalling on my part. I consider(ed) this protective instinct to be hardwired into us. I mean, it’s about nothing less than the survival of the human race.
Maybe there’s no such thing as the human race. Maybe that is also a fallacy. There’s certainly no common set of instincts, obviously…
Maybe most humans are more like lemmings than we care to admit. Maybe they are lemmings, but just have the appearance of humans!
It makes me question the entire definition of life on earth, of the classification of the species, everything!
Agree. I think they’re far worse than just hopeless though. I believe that most these people (and I count family and friends – or past friends – amongst them) are knowingly putting their children at risk because it’s the socially acceptable thing to do. They believe the risk to their children is so low that it doesn’t warrant a risk to a dip in their social acceptability. Like you say, you don’t need to find the time to do scientific research, there were glaringly obvious danger signs that were there from the off. Anyone that’s capable of tying their own shoe laces saw those danger signs, but most chose to ignore them. These people then they sacrificed their own children to raise the drawbridge on their beliefs.
I agree with the analysis here. And the parents always have a get out of jail free card if something goes wrong “we were just following advice like everyone else”. Compare that to a parent who doesn’t get his child vaccinated and then that child gets seriously ill or even dies. In this febrile climate, they’d likely be up on a manslaughter charge.
It’s about fear. If you believe the endless propaganda from Health officials you might think you had no choice but to inject your children. Your fear of the virus overrides your fear of experimental technology. For a while I was in this first group until I came to my senses and refused the vaccine – at least until more data was available (it is now and I haven’t changed my mind).
The pandemic is an insight into human psychology. I’m currently reading “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” by Mattias Desmet and I strongly recommend the book to help understand what has and is happening to humanity.
Those who trust implicitly their leaders are first in line for injections. Those who are less trusting but have a desire to comply – for work or other reasons – are the next level. Those who think governments, if not evil, are generally incompetent, refuse the vaccine altogether.
This last group is in two parts. Those who are smart enough to read the Pfizer trial results, or others who report on the trial results; and those who simply don’t trust government.
A poll in the USA of persons who refused vaccination found the biggest “anti-vaxxers” were, Trump supporters (though this is mainly for religious reasons), minority populations and East Coast PhD’s.
It also raises serious doubts about the validity of the medical licenses of all pediatricians and their opportunity to continue to inhale air unimpeded by prison bars.
I was a bit weary of doctors and the medical industry before this craziness.
After all this, it’s hard to retain any respect for them.
I guess they can help in some very concrete instances and if you are in a desperate situation, like badly injured in some way, there isn’t anywhere else to turn.
But what no one should be under any illusion about is that medical treatment has risk and if you don’t assess the risk yourself and leave it to them, your basically putting yourself in the hands of n industry whose first priority isn’t your health by any stretch of te imagination.
Unfortunately, and I am late in life to have come to this realisation, but I have to admit your analyses of the benefits of doctors is spot on.
Perhaps, ‘best avoided if at all possible’ sums up their usefulness to society generally.
Evil
We now have some insight into the levels to which the Pharmaceutical Industry will go to promote and protect their drugs and jabs. Perhaps we should now reconsider the findings of Andrew Wakefield regarding MMR.
“Considering the aforementioned study which found serious complications from COVID-19 in children to be practically non-existent, this raises serious doubts about the continued push for child-vaccination.”
Heads and brick walls spring to mind when getting anyone ‘in authority’ to accept the above (more than reasonable) statement.