{"id":385963,"date":"2021-12-26T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-experts-who-approved-the-vax-for-kids-were-against-mandating-it\/"},"modified":"2021-12-26T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T03:46:07","slug":"the-experts-who-approved-the-vax-for-kids-were-against-mandating-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-experts-who-approved-the-vax-for-kids-were-against-mandating-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#The experts who approved the vax for kids were against mandating it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The experts who <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved the vax for kids were against mandating it<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/shutterstock_public-school-classroom.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration advisory panel that met in October to decide whether to recommend the COVID vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 anticipated the mistake New York City is on the verge of making.<\/p>\n<p>Panel doctors, with one abstention, unanimously recommended approval \u2014\u00a0but warned that authorization could be misused as the basis for a mandate, which wasn\u2019t necessary. Many recommended the jab <em>only <\/em>for children highly susceptible to bad COVID outcomes and said the vaccine\u2019s risk of heart-related side effects in the young made waiting a reasonable decision.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Mayor-elect Eric Adams said last week that he\u2019ll require the city\u2019s 1 million public-school students be vaccinated if his Department of Health advises it. Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union, also backs student vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<p>The de Blasio administration is already floating a trial balloon, with recent e-mails to public-school parents warning, \u201cIn a partial closing, vaccinated children will be allowed to continue attending school while unvaccinated children will be required to attend school remotely and asynchronously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here and in Chicago, San Francisco and other cities across the country,  children must already be vaxxed to enter indoor public spaces like museums, restaurants and theaters.<\/p>\n<p>The politicians instituting unreasonable restrictions clearly didn\u2019t watch the FDA approval debate. The expert panel met for eight hours, discussing not just the vaccine\u2019s dosing and safety but also its best uses. And on universal vaccination, not to mention mandated vaccination, a number of experts were decidedly opposed.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael Nelson, chief of the University of Virginia\u2019s Division of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, was one panelist who expressed concern: \u201cAlmost every vote cast today is going to be caveated based on the discussion we\u2019ve had today. Personally, I see this as an access [to vaccination] question . . . not a mandate for all of this age group.\u201d And: \u201cTo me, we should certainly not underestimate the knowledge and decision-making power of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nelson testified that <em>parents<\/em>, not bureaucrats, were best equipped to assess their children\u2019s vaccination needs.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polimath.substack.com\/p\/the-vrbpac-meeting\">Matt Shapiro noted<\/a> at his Marginally Compelling site that other experts voiced hesitation during the hearing: \u201cDr. James Hildreth went so far as to say that the most appropriate path forward for many children would be to do nothing at all even after the vaccine is available.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Another panel member, Dr. Cody Meissner, explained, \u201cI think we saw approximately 68 percent of the children who are hospitalized with COVID-19 have underlying comorbidities, so that means about 32 percent do not. And then if we were to take 40 percent of that group that already have immunity already, we\u2019re getting down to a very small percent of otherwise healthy 6- to 11-year-old children who might derive some benefit. And we simply don\u2019t know what the side effects are going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His next comment was prescient: \u201cIt\u2019s not even clear this vaccine will reduce rates of transmission. We\u2019re hoping that\u2019s the case, but we don\u2019t know. This vaccine probably isn\u2019t going to prevent infection, it\u2019s going to prevent severe disease,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m just worried that if we say yes, the states are going to mandate administration of this vaccine to children in order to go to school. And I do not agree with that. I think that would be an error at this time until we get more information about the safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another downside to leaders ignoring the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>, which is the continued loss of trust in the medical establishment. In October, FDA panel experts explicitly warned against mandated vaccines for children. Now mandates are being enacted across the country, for schools and public spaces alike, and the response from the medical community is silence.<\/p>\n<p>Making a 5-year-old who has recovered from COVID be vaccinated before a visit to the zoo or school won\u2019t make anyone safer; but it will contribute to the growing lack of credibility of the public-health establishment, not to mention bureaucrats with little background in science. That distrust is well earned and will likely stick around much longer than the immunity acquired from any vaccination.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and Instagram: @bethanyshondark<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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