Experts at the World Health Organization have finally caught up with the data that’s been available for at least two years, admitting that healthy people under age 60 may not benefit from the Covid mRNA vaccines, adding that even “medium risk” people under the age of 60 need not get any further boosters.
Citing the low risk of the currently dominant Omicron strain and the level of population immunity due to vaccinations and previous infections, the WHO revised its vaccine advice, putting it more in line with the guidance already in effect in many European nations as well as some US states such as Florida.
This from CNN:
The new streamlined recommendations focus on high-, medium- and low-risk groups.SAGE recommends additional booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine for high-priority groups such as older people, immunocompromised people of all ages, front-line health workers and pregnant people six or 12 months after their last booster dose.For those at medium risk, the group recommends primary vaccinations and first booster doses but does not recommend routine additional boosters. This group includes children and adolescents with health risks and healthy adults under the age of about 60.For healthy kids six months to 17 years old, the group said countries should consider vaccinating based on factors such as disease burden and cost-effectiveness.
According to the WHO, the revised guidance, “newly considers the cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination for those at lower risk—namely healthy children and adolescents—compared to other health interventions.” So along with closing schools and outdoor parks, keeping children indoors rather than exposed to sunlight (Covid has never transmitted well outdoors), we can now add the entire vaccination campaign, mandated in some countries, to the list of actions taken that were counterproductive to the health of young people.
The public health impact of vaccinating healthy children and adolescents is comparatively much lower than the established benefits of traditional essential vaccines for children – such as the rotavirus, measles, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines – and of COVID-19 vaccines for high and medium priority groups. Children with immunocompromising conditions and comorbidities do face a higher risk of severe COVID-19, so are included in the high and medium priority groups respectively.
Risk stratification! What a concept!
Meanwhile, a study released by Humanity Projects based in Portugal shows that the Covid mRNA vaccines may well have injured 6.6 million people, disabled 1.36 million people, and caused 300,000 excess deaths in the United States alone. The economic damage is estimated at $147 billion. This accounts to a $13 cost to the US economy for every $1 in profit made by Pfizer and Moderna in 2022, according to Edward Dowd, co-author of the report.
Another study in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry proclaims that cases of functional neurologic disorder (FND) during the pandemic have in all likelihood been underreported. More importantly, the symptoms of FND differ depending on if it resulted from a Covid infection or an mRNA vaccination, with younger people more likely to develop FND after vaccination.
A review of this study in Medpage Today summarizes the different manifistations:
Patients with post-COVID FND tended to be older, had more insidious onset, and had higher disability, according to Araceli Alonso-Canovas, MD, PhD, of Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal in Madrid, and co-authors. Those with FND after COVID vaccination more closely resembled classic FND: they were younger, had an acute onset, and tremor was the most common phenotype.
These revelations are in line with the causal observations made by frontline doctors. “In my experience, post-vaccination twitching is almost as common a tinnitus,” wrote Dr. Robert Malone on his Substack. “Based on this casual observation, I suspect that post-vaccination FND is quite common, which (if true) is likely to predict long term neurologic consequences for a large fraction of the population.”