Parents Aren't Buying It: Vaccine Program for Kids Has Flopped!

More than two months after the Pfizer vaccine was authorized for children ages 5 to 11, only 18.8 percent of children in this age group have received both doses.

In what can only be described as a stunning development, parents in the U.S. have overwhelmingly rejected the Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.  

According to a report issued last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), “More than two months following authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11, the vaccination rate for this group is quite low, and there is significant variation across the country, with a more than 50 percentage point gap between the highest and lowest ranking states among those having received at least one dose.” [1]

The Pfizer vaccine was officially recommended for children ages 5 to 11 beginning November 2, after a rushed clinical trial involving fewer than 3,000 children. (For perspective, the Salk polio vaccine trials enrolled more than 600,000 school children in the U.S. [2])  

During an FDA meeting to authorize use of the Pfizer vaccine in children, The New England Journal of Medicine’s Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Eric Rubin, momentarily seemed to forget that the public was listening when he said the quiet part out loud: “We're never going to learn how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it.” [3]

Apparently, that wasn’t good enough for most parents.  As of January 18, 2022, only 18.8 percent of children in this age group were “fully vaccinated” with two doses of the Pfizer child vaccine.  Just over a quarter – 28.1 percent – had received one dose.

This means that 71.9 percent remain unvaccinated, despite months of messaging from CDC officials and their media allies warning that Covid-19 can be deadly for all age groups and insisting that the only responsible choice for parents was to vaccinate their children.  

According to the KFF report, initial demand for the child vaccine was high. The rate of vaccination among children ages 5 to 11 reached its peak before Thanksgiving and then dropped precipitously.  It appears that parents who were afraid of Covid for their school-aged children rushed right out after the vaccine was authorized for this age group and immediately got them vaccinated. 

From the report:

This makes sense.  If you think your child’s life is in danger from a virus and that vaccination is the best way to protect him or her, you’re going to vaccinate as quickly as possible. 

However, it is now clear that the vast majority of parents were not convinced that the Delta variant posed a sufficiently serious threat to justify injecting their children with an experimental vaccine, the safety of which already had been called into question.  So far, the Omicron variant doesn’t appear to be moving the needle.

From the report: “Overall, we find that the number of first doses newly administered to five to eleven year-olds remains far below its early peak and although there was a slight uptick for a period in December, it has again declined.”

Among other highlights from the report:

·                 A 52-percentage point spread exists between the most vaccinated and least vaccinated states.  The share of children having received at least one dose ranged from 63.1 percent in Vermont to just 11.2 percent in Mississippi. The bottom ten states have vaccinated fewer than 20 percent of children in this age group.  

·                 Regional differences are stark.  Five of the top ten most vaccinated states, by share of children 5 to 11 who have received at least one dose, are in New England (Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut). Eight of the ten states with the lowest vaccination rates in children are in the South (South Carolina, Georgia, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi).  

It remains to be seen how many more parents eventually will succumb to non-stop threats and bullying from our so-called public health authorities, who continue to push the deadly Covid-19 vaccines on children despite tens of thousands of credible reports of critical vaccine injuries.   The CDC, which has evolved into little more than a front group for the vaccine makers, has gone all-in on its one-size-fits-all vaccine strategy.  The agency is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on programs and propaganda to convince parents that their children are in mortal danger from Covid-19 and that vaccination is the only way to protect them.

Meanwhile, two years into this pandemic, Covid continues to barely register as a cause of death for youths, with or without comorbidities.   From Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan. 15, 2022, a total of 68,170 children ages 0 to 17 in the U.S. died from all causes.  Of these, just 727 (one percent) listed Covid as a cause.  Covid has been linked to a grand total of 225 deaths in children between the ages of 5 and 14.[4]   

For perspective, in any given year, thousands of youths are killed in car crashes on U.S. roads, and hundreds of thousands suffer serious injuries. Excessive speed is by far the biggest factor in these crashes.  Yet, when was the last time you heard CDC Director Rochelle Walensky warn the public to slow down and obey the speed limit?  When was the last time you read about any significant government initiatives to address the deadly consequences of speeding?

In fact, a breakdown in The New England Journal of Medicine of the ten leading causes of death for youths in the U.S. shows that most of these deaths are preventable.[5] Yet, the CDC all but ignores 99 percent of them while devoting the bulk of our tax dollars to the one percent that it can exploit to increase vaccine sales.

From The New England Journal of Medicine:

Please share this report far and wide. At the very least, we can help ensure that parents do not succumb to the belief that they have to vaccinate their children because everybody else is doing it.  Clearly, everybody else is not doing it.

One other datapoint of interest from the Kaiser report:  It appears that a significant number of children who received their first dose of Pfizer vaccine are not getting the second dose.  According to Figure 1 in the report, by December 21, 2022, 22.7 percent of children had received one dose of the Pfizer vax.  Children are supposed to get the second dose three weeks later.  Yet, after four weeks, only 18.8 percent of children had received both doses.   This means that more than one in six children who got their first dose are non-compliant with the two-dose regimen.   

How many of these children will remain non-compliant?  How many haven’t received their second dose because they suffered a bad reaction to their first? What are the implications going forward as the CDC ramps up its efforts to force-vaccinate all school-age children in the U.S.?

As we ponder these questions, I will leave you with this case report from OpenVaers,[6] which I originally shared on my Substack page in December.  It was submitted to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) by a mother who says her 8-year-old daughter suffered what appeared to be a serious reaction to her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine and wonders aloud whether she should receive the second dose.  I think all of us who have read this report wanted to shout, “Don’t do it!” 

I can only hope she didn’t.  

AGE: 8     Sex: F     VAERS ID: 1880325

Patient received the vaccine on Monday, November 8th. She was not anxious to get the vaccine, she was excited and proud to get it. She didn't have lunch before the vaccine but did have cereal for breakfast. Immediately after getting the vaccine (while still sitting in the chair), patient held her head and said "my head mommy, my head hurts so much" and then they had her stand up and she opened her eyes wide and said "I can't see mommy, everything is white" and I asked the person who gave the vaccine to help. She laid patient on the ground and put her feet up. She was clammy, very pale, and still. She shivered a little as if she was cold. She laid there with tears, but awake for about 20 minutes. They brought a wheelchair and moved her to a cot. We gave her some crackers and they asked us to leave about 10 minutes later. She was very tired following the event and for the rest of the day, but she was awake and talking and walking. On Tuesday and Wednesday, she complained of a "bad headache" and said her ears and her head were hot. On Thursday she was a little pale, but didn't complain of anything. On Friday in school they sent her to the school nurse because she was pale and clammy and said her head hurt really bad. On Saturday (11/13) evening, she started throwing up. She threw up and had water-diarrhea all day on Sunday. She couldn't sit up or move on her own. I took her to a Pediatric Urgent Care on Monday (11/15), and they sent us to the Hospital Emergency Room (details below). They tested her for everything they could think of, and the only abnormal result was a positive Strep test. Today is Thursday (11/18) and she has been at home since we left the ER on Monday, but only very slowly feeling better. She hasn't eaten much since Saturday (11/13), though she is drinking fine. She has thrown up 1-2 times each day and still feels very weak and tired. She's slept most of the day, every day. This morning is the first time she's willingly eaten a little bit. She's definitely not been herself over the past 5 days. I'm honestly terrified to get her the second dose of the vaccine. I realize the illness could be completely unrelated to the vaccine, but I'd like to get an opinion on whether or not to get her the second dose on time or wait a while.

[1]  Update on COVID-19 Vaccination of 5-11 Year Olds in the U.S. |

[2] “A calculated risk”: the Salk polio vaccine field trials of 1954 (nih.gov)

[3] Drug Companies Hide Covid-19 Vaccine Injuries, Scientist Tells FDA (substack.com)

[4] Provisional COVID-19 Deaths by Sex and Age | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov)

[5] The Major Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States | NEJM

[6]  All VAERS Reports - OpenVAERS