Medical Science: COVID-19 - Should You Get Your Kids Vaccinated

Details: Category: Medical Science; Published on Monday, 01 November 2021 18:00; Written by Dr. Jane M. Orient, M.D.,

On Oct 26, 2021, a panel of experts recommended 17 to zero that FDA authorize the Pfizer vaccine at one-third dose, for 5-to-12-year-olds. Will you be rushing your child to the nearest vaccine center? Or worrying about mandates?

The issue is certainly controversial; more than 140,000 comments were received. Vaccine proponents say that "rare" or "mild" adverse effects are a "small price to pay." But parents may want to examine these graphs and decide for themselves:

Inflammation of the heart (myocarditis) is much more common in younger age groups. And the number of cases has increased sharply, as has the number of excess deaths (deaths above the expected or baseline number).

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Note that children have been receiving the jabs even before they have been authorized (ask people who work in pharmacies). What will happen when children are injected in greatly increased numbers?

The aggressive vaccination campaign has NOT reduced the death rate.

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Myocarditis is much more common after the second dose. Hence, parents might want to have their child checked for asymptomatic heart damage a few days after the first dose (e.g., by blood troponin levels, electrocardiogram, and echocardiogram).

"Myocarditis in children is neither rare nor mild," said cardiologist Peter McCullough, M.D., at an Oct 27 meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, with an extended Q&A period.

Additional information:

· 91 studies on natural immunity compiled by Paul Elias Alexander

· Articles by Dr. Peter McCullough

· Updated AAPS Guide to Home-Based COVID Treatment.

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Jane M. Orient, M.D. obtained her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974. She completed an internal medicine residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital and University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals and then became an Instructor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and a staff physician at the Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital. She has been in solo private practice since 1981 and has served as Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) since 1989.

She is currently president of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. She is the author of YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Healthcare, and the second through fifth editions of Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis published by Wolters Kluwer. She authored books for school children, Professor Klugimkopf's Old-Fashioned English Grammar and Professor Klugimkopf's Spelling Method, published by Robinson Books, and coauthored two novels published as Kindle books, Neomorts and Moonshine.

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More than 100 of her papers have been published in the scientific and popular literature on a variety of subjects including risk assessment, natural and technological hazards and non-hazards, and medical economics and ethics. She is the editor of AAPS News, the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter, and Civil Defense Perspectives, and is the managing editor of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

If you would like to discuss these issues, contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Jane M. Orient, M.D., Executive Director, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons