​Trẻ em chưa được khuyến cáo tiêm vắc-xin Covid-19

-----

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor Marty Makary exposes the “flimsy evidence behind the CDC’s push to vaccinate children.” Two slices:

A tremendous (bao la, to lớn; kinh khủng, khủng khiếp) number of government and private policies (chính sách) affecting kids are based on one number: 335. That is how many children under 18 have died with a Covid diagnosis code in their record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet the CDC, which has 21,000 employees, hasn’t researched each death to find out whether Covid caused it or if it involved a pre-existing medical condition (tiền sử bệnh nền).

Without these data, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices decided in May that the benefits of two-dose vaccination outweigh the risks for all kids 12 to 15. I’ve written hundreds of peer-reviewed medical studies, and I can think of no journal editor who would accept the claim that 335 deaths resulted from a virus without data to indicate (ngụ ý, biểu lộ) if the virus was incidental (ngẫu nhiên, tình cờ) or causal, and without an analysis (phân tích) of relevant risk factors such as obesity (béo phì).

My research team at Johns Hopkins worked with the nonprofit FAIR Health to analyze approximately 48,000 children under 18 diagnosed with Covid in health-insurance data from April to August 2020. Our report found a mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukemia (máu trắng, bệnh bạch cầu). If that trend holds, it has significant implications for healthy kids and whether they need two vaccine doses. The National Education Association has been debating whether to urge schools to require vaccination before returning to school in person. How can they or anyone debate the issue without the right data?

…..

Most striking, the CDC has never systematically collected (thu thập một cách có hệ thống) and reported the No. 1 leading indicator (chỉ dấu hàng đầu) of the pandemic (đại dịch) — daily new hospitalizations (nhập viện) for Covid sickness. Instead, the CDC offers the lagging indicator of hospitalization for anyone who tests positive (xét nghiệm dương tính) for Covid.

The CDC data on natural-immunity rates (tỷ lệ miễn nhiệm tự nhiên) is similarly disappointing. The CDC reports this measure in fragments on their website, but it’s outdated and some states are listed as having “no data available.” The low priority given to this indicator is consistent with how public-health officials have played down and ignored natural immunity in their drive to get everyone vaccinated.

Bài trước: Bước ngoặt đen tối của phương Tây