COVID-19 vaccine EUA for 5-11 year olds is expected, which will be used to construct rigid mandates. The FDA and CDC need to consider the specific risk-benefit of the COVID-recovered child.
Hello Dr. Shenai, thank you for this detailed analysis. This is pretty much exactly how I feel and I am not going to be signing up my kids for any early waves of this vaccine. That being said, how should I respond to someone who posits that myocarditis rates are greater via natural COVID infection? Should I counter-respond by asking that these myocarditis rates be broken down by age, gender and prevalence of comorbidities in those affected kids? (As my kids are young, fully healthy, thin and not obese)
Thanks for reading, Kevin. So, as you say, vax advocates will say frequency of c19 myocarditis >vax myocarditis. This is likely true (Barda, NEJM). However, the argument is misleading... because the comparison assumes one has COVID... It is of course a chance, but not a certainty. By comparison, the vaxxed group is 100% vaxxed, by definition. So you have to multiply the risk of getting Covid to the chance of getting c19 myocarditis ... And these rates are comparable, (and even more reduced in c19 recovered). Also, it is not only just myocarditis risk.... There are other rare events, in total, can be additive. Remember, it should be up to them to prove overwhelming benefit over risk, not the other way around.
Thank you Dr. Mahesh! Do you think it is generally fair of me to ask - if anyone wants to pressure me into vaccinating my kids, to demand of them risks for those adverse C19 events stratified into my children's appropriate demographic? And to demand that these risks be quantified in terms of my healthy, non-obese, non-comorbid kids? My non-doctor, but data-driven brain wants my kids to be compared in terms of apples to apples.
Everything is fair, if not required in defense of our children. They do not want to release stratified results, because it will in fact highlight subgroups with suboptimal risk vs. benefit. Commission by omission.
Thank you. I have to admit, I am beyond disillusioned with the medical establishment at this point. I was mentally ready for the VRBAC to simply rubber stamp the 5-11 vaccine. But even though I steeled myself for it, I am still so angry to see it actually happen despite reasonable objections in the other direction. Medical personnel like you who raise balanced, fair, reasonable objections are keeping me from losing complete trust in all doctors at the moment.
Consulting your personal physician could be the worst thing you can do - they do not take the time to do any research and only parrot the dictates of the public health authorities, which are deeply corrupt.
Hello Dr. Shenai, thank you for this detailed analysis. This is pretty much exactly how I feel and I am not going to be signing up my kids for any early waves of this vaccine. That being said, how should I respond to someone who posits that myocarditis rates are greater via natural COVID infection? Should I counter-respond by asking that these myocarditis rates be broken down by age, gender and prevalence of comorbidities in those affected kids? (As my kids are young, fully healthy, thin and not obese)
Thanks for reading, Kevin. So, as you say, vax advocates will say frequency of c19 myocarditis >vax myocarditis. This is likely true (Barda, NEJM). However, the argument is misleading... because the comparison assumes one has COVID... It is of course a chance, but not a certainty. By comparison, the vaxxed group is 100% vaxxed, by definition. So you have to multiply the risk of getting Covid to the chance of getting c19 myocarditis ... And these rates are comparable, (and even more reduced in c19 recovered). Also, it is not only just myocarditis risk.... There are other rare events, in total, can be additive. Remember, it should be up to them to prove overwhelming benefit over risk, not the other way around.
Thank you Dr. Mahesh! Do you think it is generally fair of me to ask - if anyone wants to pressure me into vaccinating my kids, to demand of them risks for those adverse C19 events stratified into my children's appropriate demographic? And to demand that these risks be quantified in terms of my healthy, non-obese, non-comorbid kids? My non-doctor, but data-driven brain wants my kids to be compared in terms of apples to apples.
Everything is fair, if not required in defense of our children. They do not want to release stratified results, because it will in fact highlight subgroups with suboptimal risk vs. benefit. Commission by omission.
Thank you. I have to admit, I am beyond disillusioned with the medical establishment at this point. I was mentally ready for the VRBAC to simply rubber stamp the 5-11 vaccine. But even though I steeled myself for it, I am still so angry to see it actually happen despite reasonable objections in the other direction. Medical personnel like you who raise balanced, fair, reasonable objections are keeping me from losing complete trust in all doctors at the moment.
Consulting your personal physician could be the worst thing you can do - they do not take the time to do any research and only parrot the dictates of the public health authorities, which are deeply corrupt.