Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola<\/p>\n
According to CNN,1<\/span><\/sup> the pace at which Americans are getting the COVID shot has dwindled considerably since mid-January, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began tracking daily shot statistics.<\/p>\n During the last week of September 2021, the seven-day average was 231,695 people receiving their first dose, down 31% from the week before and 47% lower than the last week of August 2021.<\/p>\n According to CNN, this slowdown is not due to a majority having already received their shots. Just over 55% of Americans are fully vaccinated with either one dose of Janssen or two doses of Moderna or Pfizer. Nearly 25% of eligible adults and adolescents remain unvaccinated, and 16 states have vaccination rates below 50%.<\/p>\n Once the shots are approved for children younger than 12, the number of eligible unvaccinated individuals will of course rise further, and that day is drawing near. Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla expects the company to submit data on children aged 5 through 11 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration any day now.<\/p>\n CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said she expects the data on children to be delivered and reviewed within weeks. Once Pfizer delivers the data on children, two committees, one for the FDA and one for the CDC, will conduct their reviews and issue recommendations. Some analysts predict these reviews may occur as early as the end of October.2<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n Walensky also stressed that boosters will also be authorized for Moderna and Janssen. As reported by CNN:3<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n \u201cWalensky said boosters for people who have gotten the Moderna and J&J vaccines will be addressed with similar urgency as Pfizer’s vaccine. She reiterated that the current booster recommendations are only for people who received their second dose of the Pfizer\/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine more than six months ago.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2018We haven’t forgotten you if you’ve gotten Moderna and J&J,\u2019 Walensky said, when asked how soon boosters for these groups might be seen, and if mixing and matching of vaccines could happen in the near future. \u2018We will with similar urgency address boosters for those populations, as well as looking at the science and data for mix and matching.\u2019”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The FDA\u2019s Vaccines and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted September 17, 2021, to authorize a third booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID shot Comirnaty for people over the age of 65 and other high-risk individuals.<\/p>\n Keep in mind that the shot you actually receive is still the Pfizer shot that is under extended emergency use authorization (EUA) \u2014 not the fully approved Comirnaty. While the two are deemed interchangeable, they are not identical from a legal standpoint. Comirnaty does not have EUA liability shielding, whereas the EUA Pfizer shot does.<\/p>\n While the VRBPAC voted to approve a booster for high-risk individuals and those over 65, the CDC\u2019s expert advisory committee did not. The CDC advisory committee actually voted against recommending a booster for high-risk individuals based on their profession or living conditions. They thought only those over the age of 65 should be eligible for a booster at this time.<\/p>\n Walensky, however decided not to listen to her own experts. September 24, 2021, she simply overruled the CDC\u2019s expert panel, and went ahead with the recommendation to issue a booster dose for adults at high risk of infection due to profession or living conditions. This is only the second time in the CDC\u2019s history that its own ACIP advisory panel has been overruled. But it\u2019s perfectly predictable in these tyrannical times.<\/p>\n In the Liberty Report at the top of this article, Ron Paul discusses this apparent rejection of science. As noted by independent journalist Glenn Greenwald, in a September 24, 2021, tweet (cited by Paul):<\/p>\n \u201cUnbelievable: after 18 months of demanding everyone FOLLOW THE SCIENCE and scorning any questioning, Biden\u2019s CDC Director ignores \u2014 overrules \u2014 the overwhelming recommendation of her scientists about the Pfizer booster, to align with what Biden wanted.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Walensky told CBS News her decision to go against the CDC panel and side with the FDA and vaccine manufacturers was \u201ca scientific close call,\u201d and that she \u201cthought it was appropriate for those people to be eligible for boosters.\u201d4<\/span><\/sup> As reported by CNN, individuals eligible for a Pfizer booster now include:5<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n This isn\u2019t a definitive list. Walensky admitted people will need to determine for themselves whether they might qualify for a booster shot. For example, a healthy 20-year-old who waits tables in a restaurant may decide that his profession exposes him to high risk.<\/p>\n According to Pfizer CEO Bourla, normal life will not return without regular COVID shots from hereon. During an ABC, \u201cThis Week with George Stephanopoulos\u201d interview, Bourla said normalcy will likely return within the next year \u2014 but only for those who comply with the COVID jab recommendations. In essence, he doesn\u2019t foresee a future in which people won\u2019t be forced to send Pfizer profits into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n Bourla expects the COVID shot to become an annual revaccination, but based on what we\u2019re seeing in Israel, where they\u2019re already talking about a fourth dose, having just started giving the third in early August 2021, I would personally not be surprised if it turned into a quarterly injection. As noted by Summit News:6<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n \u201cThe Pfizer\u2019s CEO\u2019s comments on annual vaccinations are interesting given that the FDA has so far only approved booster shots for elderly people and \u2018high risk individuals.\u2019 Bourla\u2019s rhetoric is similar to that espoused by Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel, who said last week that even younger people will have to get vaccine booster shots at least once every three years. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This once again underscores how a two-tier society is being created where only those who submit to regular shots will be able to enjoy a relatively normal lifestyle. For those who continue to refuse to be vaccinated, travel, employment and potentially even basic leisure activities will continue to be curtailed, leaving them in a de facto state of lockdown indefinitely.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In related news,7<\/span><\/sup> in mid-September 2021, Italy became the first European country to announce it will implement mandatory COVID-19 health passes (so-called \u201cGreen Pass\u201d) for all workers, both public and private.<\/p>\n Basically, if you want to earn a living in Italy, you have to get the COVID shot and, of course, any recommended boosters thereafter. You simply won\u2019t be able to work for any company unless you get injected. At present, the Green Pass can be obtained in both paper and digital formats.<\/p>\n Starting October 15, 2021, any employee that fails to present a Green Pass to his or her employer will be suspended without pay for up to five days. Curiously, NPR reports employees will not be automatically fired for noncompliance. It\u2019s unclear whether that means the suspension will be repeated if the employee still refuses to get the shot.<\/p>\n To make matters even worse, vaccine makers are now pushing for children aged 5 to 11 to get the gene-modifying injection, and the sooner the better. Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted their data and stated that their COVID shot is safe in 5- to 11-year-olds.8<\/span><\/sup> The question is, how is that possible? That, and other questions, are asked in an August 2021 Toxicology Reports paper titled \u201cWhy Are We Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19?\u201d9<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n The team, which includes scientists from five countries, questions the push to give children the COVID-19 shots, considering children\u2019s risk of dying from COVID-19 is \u201cnegligible.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s the elderly who are at the highest risk of both illness and death, the study authors say, pointing out that the \u201cbulk of the normalized post-inoculation deaths also occur in the elderly with high comorbidities, while the normalized post-inoculation deaths are small, but not negligible, in children.\u201d<\/p>\n Because the vaccine hasn\u2019t been studied properly in children and because no one knows the true long-term effects \u2014 and won\u2019t know them for decades \u2014 the scientists ask: \u201cWhere is the data justifying inoculation for children, much less most people under 40?\u201d<\/p>\n They cite a number of unanswered safety questions, which they say haven\u2019t been addressed for children, including the fact that numerous reports of serious side effects from the shots are emerging, such as cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, endocrine, neurological and immune problems, as well as vision and breathing problems.<\/p>\n The authors of the Toxicology Reports paper also stress that children, who have a negligible risk of dying from COVID infection, do face the risk of dying from the shot:10<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n \u201cA novel best-case scenario cost-benefit analysis showed very conservatively that there are five times the number of deaths attributable to each inoculation versus those attributable to COVID-19 in the most vulnerable 65+ demographic. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The risk of death from COVID-19 decreases drastically as age decreases, and the longer-term effects of the inoculations on lower age groups will increase their risk-benefit ratio, perhaps substantially.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, to be clear, since children have such a tiny risk of dying from the actual infection, the risk of death from the COVID shot also needs to be negligible \u2014 either the same or lower than the risk of dying from the infection \u2014 in order for the benefit to outweigh the risk.<\/p>\n Considering five times more people are dying from the jab than the infection in the 65 and older demographic, who are at highest risk of death from COVID-19, it\u2019s highly unlikely that the benefits will outweigh the risks among children, whose risk of death from the infection is near zero.<\/p>\nModerna and J & J Boosters Are Coming Too<\/h2>\n
CDC Director Overruled Expert Panel<\/h2>\n
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\n Seniors over the age of 65<\/td>\n Adults with an underlying health condition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n People in homeless shelters<\/td>\n People living in group homes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n People living in nursing homes<\/td>\n Health care workers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Teachers<\/td>\n Grocery store workers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Public transportation employees<\/td>\n Prisoners and prison workers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Pfizer Expects Annual Revaccinations<\/h2>\n
Italy Mandates Vaccine Pass for All Workers<\/h2>\n
Researchers Ask: Why Are We Vaccinating Children?<\/h2>\n
Do Benefits Really Outweigh Risks for Children?<\/h2>\n
Excess Death Ratio Is \u2018Unacceptable\u2019<\/h2>\n