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Pfizer Advances Its COVID-19 Vaccine Trial for Children 11 and Younger
With vaccines expected to be available to this age group as soon as this fall
Pfizer says it’s moving forward with its Phase 2/3 trial in the pediatric population and expects to provide the COVID-19 vaccine to children between the ages of 5–11 in the fall, and soon after for those 4 and younger, if studies show immune response and safety.
“If safety and immunogenicity is confirmed, and pending authorization or approval from regulators, we hope to submit the vaccine for potential Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sometime in September-October timeframe for children 5–11, and soon after for 6 months to 5,” Pfizer stated.
How a well-meaning U.S. government database fuels dangerous vaccine misinformation
By Melissa Goldin, John Gregory, and Kendrick McDonald
On 5/25/21 at 12:01 AM EDT
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On April 30, 2021, the website Natural News which NewsGuard has rated Red, meaning generally unreliable published a story reporting the death of a 2-year-old who in late February had received the second dose of a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during the companies clinical trials for children. The only problem? Children under 5 did not begin receiving shots until April, according to a press releaseon the Pfizer website.
Natural News picked up the false claim from a familiar source of pandemic misinformation: Red-rated website Great Game India, which in January 2020 also spread a different falsehood that the COVID-19 virus was stolen from a Canadian lab.
You see, bloggers and reporters, here is the problem (one among many, actually). You have no background.
You donât understand that every time you write a medical piece, there is a context which should inform your every move:
The modern medical system kills and maims huge numbers of people.
To put it another way, THE MODERN MEDICAL SYSTEM KILLS AND MAIMS HUGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE.
Every year, in the US, between 76,000 and 137,000 hospitalized patients die as a direct result of the drugs
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ONE: âThe Epidemic of Sickness and Death from Prescription Drugs.â The author is Donald Light, who teaches at Rowan University, and was the 2013 recipient of ASAâs [American Sociological Associationâs] Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology. Light is a founding fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2013, he was a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. He is a Lokey Visiting Profes
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