…Vaccinate almost 38,000 kids (with hundreds of serious side effects), stop one Covid hospitalization
To stop one severe Covid case in children aged 5-15, about 38,000 kids would need to be dosed with mRNA Covid jabs, British researchers have found.
The report should be the final death knell for efforts to give young people mRNA shots, which the United States still has not stopped. Ignoring any other side effects, vaccine-caused myocarditis in kids and teens alone outweighs any potential benefit.
For people aged 16-74, the results were hardly better. The jabs were only about 30 percent effective against hospitalization or death (not infection). And about 15,000 adults would have needed to be “fully vaccinated” to avoid one “severe case.”
The findings come from a huge study of Covid hospitalizations and deaths in Britain in summer 2022. The Lancet, a top medical journal, published the study last month.
The researchers, who are pro-jab, reported their findings in an unusual way, probably to try to hide how ineffective the shots were in people under 75. But upon close inspection, the paper reveals the truth.
The study’s bonafides can’t be questioned – even if how it presents its findings can be.
Health Data Research UK, an independent charity group that is “the UK’s national institute for health data science,” funded it.
Researchers matched vaccination, hospitalization, and death records for nearly everyone 5 and over from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales – almost 70 million people in all, including over 9 million children aged 5-15.
The researchers then compared “severe cases” of Covid in “fully vaccinated” and “undervaccinated” kids and adults from June through September 2022. Essentially, any adult under 75 who had not received three Covid jabs before the study began was called undervaccinated. (For kids, the rules were slightly trickier.)
After adjusting for risk factors, the researchers claimed “undervaccination” had led to about 200 extra hospitalizations over the summer of 2022 in kids 5-15.
(Technically, the definition of “severe case” included death. But child deaths from Covid in Britain are vanishingly rare. Fewer than 100 occurred during the entire first three years of Covid, according to this British government report. So the severe cases in children were essentially all hospitalizations.)
In other words, if every child in Britain had been fully vaccinated in summer 2022, the United Kingdom would have had about 480 Covid hospitalizations – instead of the roughly 680 it actually had.
But in summer 2022, only 20 percent of kids 5-15 in the United Kingdom were “fully vaccinated.” The other 80 percent, 7.5 million children in all, were not. (Europeans were much more reluctant to give their kids Covid jabs than were Americans, despite the endless media complaints about “anti-vaxxers” in the United States).
Thus to avoid those 200 Covid hospitalizations in children – not deaths or intensive care stays, but hospitalizations – 7.5 million kids would need to be jabbed.
The researchers performed a similar calculation for adults 16-74, and found that “full” vaccination would have stopped about 1,500 extra hospitalizations and deaths in them from June to September 2022.
But at the time almost half the adults in Britain – about 21 million people aged 16-74 – were “undervaccinated.”
Twenty-one million divided by 1,500 equals 14,000, so what the paper really says is that about 14,000 people under 75 would have needed at least one extra mRNA shot to prevent one Covid hospitalization or death.
Finally, the researchers ran the same calculation for adults 75 and over – who are, of course, at far higher risk from Covid.
In that group, they found a very different result. Even though most of the elderly were already “fully vaccinated,” about 1.8 million were not.
Vaccinating them would have stopped about 5,400 hospitalizations or deaths, they reported. In other words, instead of needing tens of thousands of “full vaccinations” to prevent a severe Covid case, only 330 were required for people over 75.
(The truth is even more complex, because that figure ignores the factor of “healthy vaccine bias” in the ultra-elderly. Some very old people will not be jabbed because they are within weeks or months of death and so are unlikely to benefit from a shot in any case. But if they die of Covid, they are counted as unvaccinated Covid deaths.)
Still, the finding confirms what nearly everyone who doesn’t work for the CDC already knows – in the Omicron era, the only people who have even a theoretical possibility of benefitting from the shots are the very old.
And for kids, they are all downside.
38,000-to-1 downside.