{"id":75990,"date":"2021-07-27T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=75990"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:52:36","slug":"johns-hopkins-study-found-zero-covid-deaths-among-healthy-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=75990","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins Study Found Zero COVID Deaths Among Healthy Kids<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rather than acknowledge science, Dr. Makary says the CDC\u00a0continues to use ‘flimsy evidence’ to push the COVID vaccine upon children.<\/em><\/h2>\n

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By Audrey Unverferth
\nThe Federalist<\/p>\n

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers recently\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that when studying a group of about 48,000 children, they found\u00a0zero<\/em>\u00a0COVID deaths among healthy kids, but the Centers for Disease Control doesn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Dr. Marty Makary is a medical expert and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Carey Business School. His research team \u201cworked with the nonprofit FAIR Health to analyze approximately 48,000 children under 18 diagnosed with Covid in health-insurance data from April to August 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

After studying comprehensive data on thousands of children, the team \u201cfound a mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukemia.\u201d Rather than acknowledge this scientific reality, Makary says the CDC\u00a0continues to use \u201cflimsy evidence\u201d to push the COVID vaccine upon children.<\/p>\n

As Makary noted in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, the implications of his team\u2019s research are huge. \u201c[If our research] holds, it has significant implications for healthy kids and whether they need two vaccine doses,\u201d Makary says. After all, \u201cThe National Education Association has been debating whether to urge schools to require vaccination before returning to school in person. How can they or anyone debate the issue without the right data?\u201d<\/p>\n

Makary\u2019s question is obvious, but no less timely.\u00a0Makary says\u00a0inflated COVID death counts continue to be corrected and \u201crevised downward.\u201d<\/p>\n

But rather than combat institutional distrust with scientific data and discussion, Makary says the CDC is avoiding transparency and rigorous inquiry. He slammed the agency on Monday, saying it \u201covercounts Covid hospitalizations and deaths and won\u2019t consider if one shot is sufficient.\u201d According to Makary, this problem is systemic.<\/p>\n

Makary says \u201ca tremendous number of government and private policies\u201d regarding the vaccination of children are dependent upon one questionable data point. The CDC claims 335 children under the age of 18 have died with a COVID diagnosis in their record. However, Makary reports that, \u201cthe CDC, which has 21,000 employees, hasn\u2019t researched each death to find out whether Covid caused it or if it involved a pre-existing medical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout these data, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices decided in May that the benefits of two-dose vaccination outweigh the risks for all kids 12 to 15,\u201d Makary notes. \u201cI\u2019ve written hundreds of peer-reviewed medical studies, and I can think of no journal editor who would accept the claim that 335 deaths resulted from a virus without data to indicate if the virus was incidental or causal, and without an analysis of relevant risk factors such as obesity.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Makary, the CDC defies medical research norms, by propagating a \u201cflimsy\u201d claim without sufficient research or transparency. And this isn\u2019t an isolated incident. Makary illustrates that it\u2019s part of a pattern.<\/p>\n

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0200 child hospitalizations and one death can be prevented over four months\u00a0if\u00a0<\/i>one million adolescents are vaccinated. Makary\u2019s unconvinced. He says that,\u00a0\u201c[T]he agency\u2019s Covid adolescent hospitalization report, like its death count, doesn\u2019t distinguish on the website whether a child is hospitalized\u00a0for\u00a0<\/i>Covid or\u00a0with<\/i> Covid.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a problem, because there\u2019s an obvious difference between these patient categories.\u00a0Hospitals often test patients for COVID as a matter of routine, even if there\u2019s nothing to suggest they\u2019re infected with the virus. But by Walensky\u2019s metrics, Makary says \u201cAn asymptomatic child who tests positive after being injured in a bicycle accident would be counted as a \u2018Covid hospitalization.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Makary says the CDC\u2019s untrustworthy reporting doesn\u2019t stop there. He adds that, \u201cThe CDC may also be under[-]capturing data on vaccine complications.\u201d The CDC bases its risk-benefit analysis for vaccinating all children on complication rates from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database (Vaers). However, Makary argues that this database is composed of self-reported, raw data that \u201cis unverified and likely underreports adverse events.\u201d<\/p>\n

All this is just the tip of the iceberg of lapses in CDC data and analysis, the researcher says.\u00a0To this day, Makary says, the CDC still doesn\u2019t document daily new hospitalizations for COVID sickness. Instead, it reports the inflated rate of hospitalization for any patient who tests positive for the virus. And while the CDC pushes the vaccine upon Americans, Makary says the agency seems completely disinterested in discovering natural-immunity rates.<\/p>\n

Rather than pursue transparency, the CDC and other large entities\u00a0avoid<\/a> scientific inquiry and silence those who dare to ask inconvenient questions. \u201cNot only has the CDC refused to examine the possibility of a one-dose regimen for minors; Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff told me he was kicked off the advisory committee working group on Covid-vaccine safety after he expressed a dissenting opinion,\u201d Makary notes.<\/p>\n

The CDC and U.S. Food and Drug Administration that approves vaccines employ 39,000 individuals, yet crucial scientific data remains lacking more than a year into crushing COVID lockdowns, Makary notes. Rather than rely upon \u201cunverified data,\u201d Makary says, \u201cThe CDC or the Food and Drug Administration should expeditiously assign doctors to research each of the thousands of vaccine complications reported to Vaers.\u201d\u00a0According to Makary\u2019s findings, the agency should also reevaluate its claims concerning children\u2019s mortality and hospitalization.<\/p>\n

The CDC isn\u2019t the only entity whose doctrines are implicated by these findings. While Makary\u2019s team recorded zero COVID deaths for healthy kids, children across the country continue to suffer from draconian mask mandates and other restrictions imposed based on the belief that COVID is highly risky for children.<\/p>\n

Inspired by Democrat talking-points, states like\u00a0Connecticut, New Mexico, Hawaii, Virginia, New York, and Washington all\u00a0force<\/a>\u00a0K-12 students to wear masks, regardless of their vaccination status. Meanwhile,\u00a0CNN<\/a>,\u00a0NBC News<\/a>,\u00a0CBS News<\/a>, and others continue to parrot the narrative that children should \u201cmask up,\u201d or else.<\/p>\n

Audrey Unverferth is an intern at The Federalist and a senior at the University of Chicago, where she studies Law, Letters, and Society and Russian and East European Studies. She is also the co-founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Thinker. Follow her on Twitter\u00a0@audrey__unver\u00a0<\/a>or email\u00a0audreyu@uchicago.edu.<\/div>\n
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