Children vaccinated against Covid are infectious for the same amount of time as their non-vaccinated peers, a new study out of California has found. The Mail has more.
Whether or not students had received their bivalent Covid booster made no difference to the length of time they shed pieces of the virus after testing positive.
Both groups of kids aged seven to 18 were infectious for three days on average, according to the results from April to September 2022.
The study adds more doubt about the importance of giving Covid booster shots to children. Until earlier this year, several states including California and Illinois mandated the vaccines in schools.
Experts from Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles, who carried out the study: “Return-to-school policies may not need to discriminate by vaccine or booster status.”
Crucially, though, lead author Dr. Neeraj Sood said the team did not look at the vaccines’ abilities to prevent infection in the first place. …
The report was published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
The 76 children involved in the study were from the Los Angeles-area included in the study ranged in age children seven to 18 years old.
The goal was to measure the impact of the virus on the children’s cells to better understand how it behaves and for how long it is contagious.
The researchers studied their level of viral shedding, the number of virus particles that a child emits through coughing, sneezing, or talking that are then spread throughout the environment.
Every child tested positive for the COVID-19 Omicron variant. Of the 76 children, including 41 seven to 12-year-olds, 52 were vaccinated.
Children who had been vaccinated were infectious for three days, the same duration as children who were not vaccinated.
Researchers did not say whether they were surprised by their results. But what they found was similar to a study in adults with the Omicron variant, which also could not find an association between the length of time that a person is contagious and their vaccination status.
Worth reading in full.
Meanwhile, the FDA has found that the Covid vaccine may be linked to an increase in stroke risk of up to 35% when given alongside a high-dose flu shot – though oddly say the blame may lie with the flu shot! From the Mail.
A new analysis by the Food and Drug Administration found the link was clearest in adults over 85 and only applied to the Pfizer and Moderna bivalent Covid booster vaccines.
The FDA said the risk might stem from the flu vaccine alone and be completely unrelated to the Covid shots. Regardless, the report said the risk is still very small.
There were roughly three strokes or stroke-like events called transient ischemic attacks for every 100,000 doses given.
For comparison, in 2022 the death rate from Covid in over-85s was 1,224 per 100,000, with U.S. health experts saying vaccination still outweighs the small risk.
It is the second analysis by health officials to flag a possible association with strokes and seniors after getting the combination of seasonal vaccines. …
The group that received a high-dose flu shot and the Moderna bivalent booster had an increased risk of a transient or ‘mini’ stroke of 35%.
The group that got a flu shot and the bivalent Pfizer booster had a 20% increased risk.
Further analysis into the link between stroke and flu vaccines alone among more than 6.9 million seniors found that shot increased their risk of stroke by about nine percent, a small yet significant rise.
Because researchers could not find a statistically significant link between stroke and Covid boosters alone, this finding suggested to researchers that it was perhaps the flu vaccine alone that was driving stroke risk.
So the experimental Covid jabs are safe, but the established flu shots may be dangerous – even though vaccine adverse event reports for the Covid years were 30-40 times higher than in previous years? Methinks there is something wrong with this analysis.
Stop Press: The WHO has said healthy children and teens don’t need Covid vaccinations. Well, its a start.
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Theres was a time when stating the obvious…didnt need stating..
A minor typing correction in the first sentence: “against” could be replaced by “with”? That might make sense, given the evidence.
Children who get covid booster have insane parents
Absolutely, in fact beyond insane, one of my sons friends mother actually paid her son 100£ to go and have it as he was reluctant
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..there are plenty of them about..
I know we have seen this before, but this is the CDC list of vaccines a child is advised to get..birth to 18…(there’s an addendum you can press to remind you to give them more…Covid and RSV ……and a lot of schools also make them mandatory….!!
it’s beyond bonkers…
I’m guessing your of a finer vintage?
Parents where more grounded back when we where learning !
Being 60 I’m in a position of experience and remembrance! You might call me and my generation a missing link between the old and the…?
I still don’t know what decision was taken for my nieces and nephew. Delicate topic.
One part of having grandchildren I am not looking forward to is when they go to school and come back with rubbish they’ve been told by the “teachers” about “climate change” etc etc.
I don’t have grandchildren (yet), but you make a very interesting point. How do you deal with the indoctrination?
I remember a level of indoctrination when I went to school (cannot quite remember the subject) and my parents talking about the counter narrative during mealtimes.
Our kids had a bit when they were at school. I guess we always talked about everything, as a family, and encouraged them to think for themselves.
The WHO really said that healthy children an adolescents may not need continued routine covaxxing, at least not as a priority. And considering that the WHO damn well knows that absolutely nobody needs covaxxing, that’s decidedly not a start.
You don’t say?
You don’t say?
YOU don’t say?
Who was it?
They didn’t say!
Tell your children not to have it! You are the parent, you are the adult! Take charge, the law demands that you are accountable until they are 18! Then all bets are off! You did your best
you’ll never win all the battles, but you may yet win the war!
Follow the Silenced These “vaccines” are not safe
For comparison, in 2022 the death rate from Covid in over-85s was 1,224 per 100,000, with U.S. health experts saying vaccination still outweighs the small risk.
I would imagine the death rate from all sorts of things is pretty high when you’re over 85 and well past the average age of death. So 1000/100,000 seems like a pretty good deal. Notice they don’t tell us the death rate from (with?) Covid after vaccination for comparison. In fact, isn’t this figure of 1224 per 100,000 after vaccination anyway, if it applies to 2022? Or were these people still unvaccinated? Again, they don’t make it clear.
They’re just recycling the IFR >1% !!1 claim, total health system breakdown inavoidable if don’t …. and please wrap your face in something. 1 billion Chinese presidents believe this must be done and so many Chinese presidents just cannot be wrong!
The real meaning of this statements is 1.224% of all people older than 85 (Does this mean 86 or older or 85 and 5 minutes or more?) who tested positive for Sars-CoV2 RNA died before we stopped looking. Taking the nature of these people and their claims into account, it’s almost certain that decision to stop looking was made because the IFR would have drastically dropped had more data been taken into account.
These people are COVAXX and Xiolicy markteteers exploiting whatever opportunities present themselves to them. They wouldn’t tell the truth when being asked for the date because the precautionary principle dictates that one must not do something with unforseeable consequences. Like not lying about anything. That’s bad for narrative control.
Chidren who get the Covid booster also have a higer risk of myocarditis than those who don’t. Aren’t they lucky?
But… but… but… if you get the jab you don’t get infected, you can’t transmit the pathogen.
This is the whole rationale for the Jabbing.
It is farce to produce research results about how long injected people are infected compared to non-injected individuals.
How about a clear statement, the jab is a killer and a maimer for no benefit to anyone except those with shares in the manufacturing companies.