(LifeSiteNews) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reportedly linked at least 25 pediatric deaths to the COVID shot, according to the Washington Post.
“Trump health officials plan to include the pediatric deaths claim in a presentation next week to an influential panel of advisers to the CDC that is considering new coronavirus vaccine recommendations, which affect access to the shots and whether they’re free,” according to the Washington Post.
The experts found the link via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. It is likely that this is a significant undercount, as studies have found serious problems with vaccine injuries being underreported to VAERS.
“FDA and CDC staff routinely analyze VAERS and other safety monitoring data, and those reviews are being shared publicly through the established ACIP process,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told the Post. “Any recommendations on updated COVID-19 vaccines will be based on gold standard science and deliberated transparently at ACIP next week.”
The COVID shots are not generally recommended for children in other countries, as the Post noted.
“Many countries do not recommend annual coronavirus vaccination for healthy children because they rarely die of covid and most experience mild symptoms,” the liberal newspaper reported.
“We’ve been looking into the VAERS database of self-reports that there have been children that have died from the COVID vaccine,” Food and Drug Commissioner Marty Makary said recently on CNN. “We’re going to release a report in the coming few weeks and we’re going to let people know. We’re doing an intense investigation.”
This year, the CDC removed COVID shots from its recommended vaccines for healthy children.
A CDC panel had voted in 2022 to add the COVID shots to the childhood immunization schedule.
However, an overwhelming majority of parents already decline to get the COVID injections for their kids, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which supports widespread vaccination.
During the “2023-24 vaccination season” only “15% of eligible children in the U.S. got a shot,” the foundation’s news outlet reported last year.
Americans in general have shown skepticism over the COVID shots, with many who had received at least one jab declining to get subsequent “booster” shots.
For example, the Kaiser Family Foundation found in November 2023 that only about 20 percent of all adults had received “the latest COVID-19 vaccine,” including just 32 percent of Democrats.
“Smaller shares of younger adults ages 18-29 (18%), Republicans (11%) and independents (16%) report getting the latest vaccine,” the group reported. “Similar shares across racial and ethnic groups say they have gotten the updated vaccine, including 26% of Black adults, 20% of Hispanic adults, and 19% of White adults.”
