As the push to vaccinate ever-younger children against COVID-19 continues, with the U.S. now even vaccinating infants as young as six months, new studies show why this is both unnecessary and risky, and why children and young people have very little to fear from Covid.
The large majority of children have now been infected with the virus. In the U.K., 82% of U.K. primary school children aged four to 11, almost none of whom are vaccinated, have detectable antibodies from a previous Covid infection, according to the ONS.
The ONS data do not directly tell us the proportion of children aged 12-18 who have antibodies from infection, as they do not distinguish between antibodies from infection and vaccination, and 65% of the age group are vaccinated. However, since 99.3% of secondary school children have detectable antibodies, there is no reason to suppose it will be less than 82%.
With almost all children now having been infected and so protected via natural immunity, there is little purpose to a vaccination or booster campaign.
But does protection from natural immunity last for children? According to a new study from Israel, it lasts very well. The pre-print study (not yet peer-reviewed) from the Delta period in Israel (July 1st to December 13th 2021) finds that children and adolescents previously infected “acquired durable protection against reinfection (symptomatic or not) with SARS-CoV-2 for at least 18 months”.
Protection of individuals aged five to 18 against symptomatic Covid was 93.6% in the first six months, declining gently to around 70% after 18 months (see below).
While the study doesn’t cover Omicron, which has greater immune evasion than earlier variants, a recent study from Qatar found that natural immunity in a young population persisted at over 50% for at least a year, whereas vaccine protection declined to zero or below (i.e., the vaccine made a person more likely to be infected) within six months.
With or without natural immunity, Covid is an extremely low risk to children. Notably, none of the 458,959 five to 18 year-olds in the Israeli study died with Covid, whether they had been previously infected or not.
A recent U.K. Government study by the UKHSA looked at all under-20s who had died with Covid up to the end of 2021. It found 185 deaths within 100 days of a positive PCR test, of which fewer than half – 81, 43.8% – were actually due to COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death. Of those, more than three quarters – 61, 75.3% – had an underlying condition, including 27 with severe neurodisability and 12 with compromised immunity. This left just 20 deaths in healthy under-20 year-olds in the first two years of the pandemic, comprising just 0.3% of all the 6,790 deaths in the age group.
The authors estimated the Covid infection fatality rate in under-20s to be 0.0007% – but this includes those with underlying conditions. For healthy under-20s it would be a quarter of that, or less than 0.0002%, which is two in a million.
By contrast, a recent study in France found that as many as 170 per million young people were hospitalised with severe heart inflammation following Covid vaccination. That rate is around two orders of magnitude (i.e., 100 times) higher than the IFR of COVID-19. It means that for every life the Covid vaccines save (assuming they prevent 100% of Covid deaths, which they don’t), up to 100 young people are hospitalised with severe myocarditis, the long-term prognosis of which is unknown. And that’s just one side-effect.
How can such a risk-benefit profile be worth it for children and young people?
What about Long Covid – do vaccines protect children and young people from having debilitating, ongoing Covid symptoms, as is sometimes claimed?
A number of studies have found that compared to a control group, and when Covid is identified by the presence of antibodies, there is little evidence that those who suffer from COVID-19 go on to suffer more long-term effects. But even if they do, there is also no evidence that vaccines prevent Long Covid, with one recent large U.S. study finding “no significant difference in the risk of… any long-Covid feature”.
There is also, of course, no evidence the vaccines prevent infection for very long at all.
Thus however you look at it, it’s hard to see how there can be any justification for vaccinating children and young people against COVID-19, which is unnecessary and risky, and brings no clear benefit whatsoever.
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There isn’t one. There never has been one, and anyone who says otherwise is either mentally ill or complicit in murder. Thank you, great article.
In the long list of Covid outrages, the push to vaccinate children must be the most evil and non-sensical.
Will makes all the salient points. I haven’t read the new UK study, but it sounds very similar to a study that came out last year. I wrote an article about that study (since few other journalists mentioned it).
Per my extrapolations, the mortality risk for “healthy” UK children 0 to 18 in the first year of the pandemic was approximately 1-in-2 million.
The authors of the study looked at the medical records of every child hospitalized in the first year of the pandemic. They found 61 cases of children who had purportedly died from Covid. However, these medical doctors said only 25 children really died from Covid. Of these 25, 19 had “severe” or “life-limiting” medical conditions. This left only six (6) “healthy” children (out of approximately 12 million UK children) who actually died from Covid. This gives us a mortality risk of 0.0001 percent (which would be 0.000 percent if one carried decimal points out three places).
(The mortality risk for white children would even be more infinitesimal as the authors found that Covid deaths were more prominent (but still minuscule) in minority children.)
In my state of Alabama, I asked the Alabama Department of Health to give me the number of Alabama children who had died from Covid … in 26 months. I was actually told this agency “could not provide” this information.
My educated guess is that zero “healthy” Alabama children have died “from” Covid … in 27 months. This would make the mortality risk for healthy Alabama children roughly 0-in-1-million.
Bottom-line: One does not need “science” to come up with the best argument for NOT vaccinating children. One can use basic statistics, and the simple probabilities a 7th grader could easily calculate.
https://uncoverdc.com/2021/07/30/for-majority-of-uk-children-covid-mortality-is-0-000/
Something else jumped out to me while parsing this earlier UK study on children’s mortality. Note that study author carefully examined medical records of all hospitalized children. From these records and diagnosis codes, the authors eliminated 36 cases of presumed Covid deaths. This left them with just 25 real deaths from Covid.
In other words, they reduced the number of children’s deaths by 59 percent. I’ve often wondered what similar detailed analysis would produce if the authors looked at Covid deaths in older age cohorts. Would these also be reduced by 59 percent?
Maybe it would be just 50 percent. Well, if we apply that percentage to the approximate 1 million Covid deaths in America, that would leave 500,000 deaths that actually were from COVID …. in 27 months.
So that would be about 230,00 annualized deaths – still a lot, but not nearly as eye-opening a figure as “one million deaths.” And, of course, the vast majority of these deaths would have occurred in citizens who had already lived a long and full life.
I’d also reduce this approximately 230,000 deaths by some unknown factor to subtract for the deaths that were CAUSED by faulty medical protocols or could have been prevented if better medical protocols had been used.
Chris Whitty has some explaining to do. Where is he, anyway?
There is no justification for vaccinating children. In fact there’s probably no justification for vaccinating anyone under 65 except in very specific circumstances.
The article from El Gato Malo in the round-up today, about data suppression, features a clip from one of the VRBPAC meetings where one of the committee asks the Pfizer representative (in relation to booster doses) what the correlation is between antibodies and protection…and she reply’s..there are no studies that show a correlation???
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/data-suppression-and-adulteration
Am I missing something? isn’t this one of those bombshell moments?
If there is no correlation between the making of antibodies and protection…what the hell? For everybody, and especially not for children.
Maybe I’m missing something..please feel free to let me know!
Here is the case FOR vaccinating children: It will make the manufacturers of the “vaccine” billions of dollars, perhaps forever if they get the “vaccines” on the childhood immunization schedule.
Needless to say, this will not “protect” children from this virus nor will it save any lives. In fact, it will make children more vulnerable to being infected and will cost unknown but probably huge numbers of children’s lives.
The “Law of Opposite Effects” will once again manifest itself.
In any debate on the need for vaccinating children against Covid v not vaccinating them it seems impossible to find one ethical reason for doing so on the basis of all the available and reliable evidence. It is such a shame that children are not being provided with all this evidence at school. The evidence is so obvious and simple to understand that even very young children would likely comprehend. Well informed, honest and impartial teachers (including parents) could guide these children into arriving at their own decision as to whether what is being done to them is right or wrong.
No one likes to use the words ‘child abuse’ lightly but the hiding of the evidence and the lack of public information that help parents and children decide what is the correct course of action (and whether to allow consent) is enough to justify the appropriateness of those words.
There is a vaccine? Against SARS-Cov2? News to me… They still haven’t even isolated the virus in a lab.
The problem:
Possibly, perhaps, maybe we have an unidentified virussy thingy floating about which is giving some people a case of the sniffles. Fortunately, nobody is being made ill as a result of infection unless they are already at Death’s door.
The solution:
Inject everybody on the planet with a chemical compound known to maim, sterilise and kill – animal trials – declare said injections 100% effective and wait for the mortality statistics to rise. In the meantime, just to keep all of us safe make sure that babies pure from the womb are also injected.
Hate? If I ever get the chance I’ll show these firkers what hate is.
Where would we be without Mark Steyn getting the truth out about Covid jabs?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/where-would-we-be-without-mark-steyn/
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If you’ve been “vaccinated” yourself, you might as well do your children too.
If it turns out that the jab will end up killing everyone in 5 years time, there won’t be enough people to look after your kids anyway (except the government – and you don’t want those nonces looking after them), so you might as well go ahead jab them anyway.
Just don’t force everyone else to do it
I know plenty of people who’s children have had this virus. None of them worried all that much about it and certainly none of them wished afterwards that their child was vaccinated.
There will be some who argue that they’d be thinking differently if their child had a bad outcome.
But why would that be any different to letting your child go out to play and they come back hurt? The vast majority of the time nothing untoward happens.
Given what we know, would it make sense to worry that your child might die every time they leave the house?
Why should it be any different with this virus?