Moderna Begins Trials For COVID-19 Jab on Infants Nationwide Despite Low Risk From Virus

This is a Phase 2/3, 2-part, open-label, dose-escalation, age de-escalation, randomized, observer-blind, placebo-controlled, expansion study intended to infer the effectiveness of mRNA-1273 in children aged 6 months to less than 12 years.

*Source – ClinicalTrials.gov*

Just the News reported:

More than 13,000 children will receive “up to 3 dose levels” of the vaccine or a placebo, according to Moderna’s KidCOVE summary. Excluded from eligibility: children with a “known history” of COVID infection or “close contact” with an infected person within two weeks of the trial, as well as those who have received monoclonal antibodies in the past six months.

Asked about the ethical implications of testing a vaccine on a population at such low risk, especially relative to their risk from seasonal influenza, Hartman wrote in an email that “many kids” have developed COVID due to the Delta variant.

“This kept them out of daycare, out of school, and/or they went on to infect the people around them, including immunocompromised relatives,” he said, claiming 30,000 children were hospitalized in August.

He compared child COVID deaths to date — nearly 600 — with the flu season directly before COVID, which killed 188. COVID is arguably in its third season, having circulated in the U.S. as early as December 2019.

The argument that COVID-19 presents a risk to children is hogwash.

We now have a major crisis as the race is on to vaccinate our 5- to 11-year-old children who bring no risk to the table, with a vaccine that has been shown to be sub-optimal and potentially harmful. https://t.co/dz4dPuC4d3

— Dr. George Fareed (@GeorgeFareed2) November 6, 2021

Dr. Ben Carson speaks up:

“Do we want to put our children at risk, when we know that the risk of the disease to them is relatively small, but we don’t know what the future risks are? Why would we do a thing like that? It makes no sense whatsoever.” https://t.co/eh73nlgaO7

— Dr. Syed Haider (@DrSyedHaider) November 5, 2021

Dear Pfizer: Leave the ​​Children Alone

There is very little risk and no data or evidence or science to justify any of the Covid-19 injections in children.

Scandal of the century if you ask me.https://t.co/7VwldA12QZ via @brownstoneinst

— P. D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 (@Mangan150) November 6, 2021

Doctor @DrKellyVictory reiterates the fact that children have essentially zero risk to COVID-19, and have no need for the vaccine.

She says the vaccine has only been tested on children for a few months, and that's not enough to see the safety.https://t.co/AqCQsbgLuD

— KUSI News (@KUSINews) November 5, 2021

Harvard Medical School epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff responded to the previous statement at Just the News:

It’s true that children are “about as likely to be infected as adults,” including from Delta, but there’s “more than a thousand-fold difference in mortality risk between the old and the young,” he wrote in an email. The risk is “minuscule” even for children under one.

It’s wrong to blame the infection for keeping them out of school, “since most children are either asymptomatic or only mildly symptomatic,” he said. “What kept them out of school were the misguided pandemic restrictions.”

They are also “not major spreaders of COVID,” and vaccination is “not a burden that we should put on children” when older, high-risk people can be protected through vaccination, Kulldorff said.

He emphasized the CDC has never studied how many of the reported child COVID deaths were incidental to the virus versus caused by it; the 576 deaths cover the entire 0-17 age range; and flu season deaths among children vary widely from year to year.