The Doctors Covid Collective reports in Her brochure, which I can also fully agree with, that one in every 250 children (0.4%) will get a serious side effect from a vaccination. Nurse specialist GGZ Martin Voerknecht posted it and I saw it pop up in more usually reliable 'sources'. The echo chamber. I also shared it on Facebook but then read the Pfizer report and found out that it is incomplete and therefore misleading information. Here is my rectification.
Earlier this week, there was an update of the Pfizer document with the COVID-19 vaccine (or the official 'package leaflet'). It does indeed state that 0.4% of children can expect a "serious side effect" from vaccination. So in a school of 1000 students, four students would become very ill. In other words: Out of every eight classes, one student gets something serious. This can be:
- Hospitalization (or extension thereof)
- A life-threatening condition
- Dropout, disability or disability ("A persistent or significant impossibility or substantial impairment of the ability to perform normal functions of life").
(I have left out death and birth defects because there is no question of that in young people for the time being, neither in the studies nor in the vaccination campaigns.)
It seems worse than it is
Eén op elke 250 kinderen een ernstige bijwerking: hoe kan de Gezondheidsraad dat goedkeuren vraag je je af. Totdat je verder leest in het document:
Serious Adverse Events
In Study 2, among participants 16 through 55 years of age who had received at least 1 dose of vaccine or placebo (Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine = 10,841; placebo = 10,851), serious adverse events from Dose 1 through up to 30 days after Dose 2 in ongoing follow-up were reported by 0.4% of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine recipients and by 0.3% of placebo recipients.
The percentage of serious side effects is indeed 0.4% in the vaccinated but in the control group it was 0.3%. So that's not so bad. Apparently there is a background of 0.3% serious conditions that are comparable to the symptoms perceived as side effects. That means that in a school of 1,000 students, there are always three students seriously ill, which seems like a lot to me. We assume that this 0.4% also applies to young people from the age of 12.
Let's assume that this is the case, then there is a 0.1% difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated. That's 1 in a thousand – and that comes from a relatively small study, so whether it is representative or significant is also entirely questionable and actually I already know the answer.
A total of 2,260 adolescents aged 12-15 years also participated, (1,131 vaccine, 1,129 placebo). Can you deduce anything from that? (In the 55+ group, the proportions were similar: 0.8% against 0.6%.) The placebo group has also been vaccinated, so further side effects will only be seen in the tens of millions of children who are now injected with it worldwide.
Verderop in de fact sheet (p30) volgt er specifieke informatie over de jongsten van 12-15 jaar:
Unsolicited Serious Adverse Events in adolescents 12 through 15 years of age
Serious adverse events from Dose 1 through up to 30 days after Dose 2 in ongoing follow-up were reported by 0.4% of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine recipients and by 0.1% of placebo recipients. There were no notable patterns or numerical imbalances between treatment groups for specific categories of serious adverse events that would suggest a causal relationship to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.
This is not very consistent: with the placebos between 12-15 years there are far fewer "serious side effects" than with the placebo group between 16-55 years of age. Three-quarters less even!? While the children who have had the real vaccine have the same 0.4% serious side effects. You would expect an explanation or further investigation before children are actually vaccinated worldwide. Not so. While the net side effects are 0.3% instead of 0.1%, so three times as much. You have to be able to explain that before you start injecting. But no, they didn't see any patterns that could show a connection with the vaccine and then it stops.
At the same time, these are such small subgroups that you can wonder whether or not you can actually decide whether or not to inject the entire population on the basis of those studies.
So: vaccination may be safe for children after all?
Let's calculate that 0.1% in a straightforward way. You can then make the calculation with 0.3% yourself in your mind. When vaccinating 1.1 million children in the Netherlands, 0.4-0.3=0.1%, which is about 1,100 children, will receive a serious side effect on top of the 3,300 children who normally become seriously ill. Those 1,100 would have survived corona effortlessly without vaccination.
In addition to the above figures, there are also the myocarditis/pericarditis cases that have stood out in the reports for some time now. These conditions were not noticed in the studies and therefore do not fall under that reported 0.4%. They may be reported more often now that they have been recognized as side effects. After all, doctors only report "suspicious" deaths and not deaths that they cannot yet suspect were caused by the vaccine. Hugo de Jonge calls such a thing a 'hidden defect'.
Of course, studies among a few thousand healthy young people do not eliminate those 'rare' cases. To discover hidden defects, you should report any "serious adverse reaction after vaccination". This is therefore mandatory and a condition for being allowed to vaccinate and for some reason it simply does not happen, not even in the event of death after vaccination (see previous post). Reporting is quite a lot of work for doctors. Only if the doctor has a serious suspicion that it could be due to the vaccine, i.e. in the event of a registered side effect, then he/she will take the trouble.
General practitioner Jan van Tienen (who is also concerned about youth vaccination) previously said that the Lareb doubted whether a death reported by him was due to the vaccine. The severe body stress was seen as a normal side effect and if a vulnerable patient can no longer handle it, it is not really due to the vaccine but more to the patient's condition. So: no side effect, was the reasoning.
Unknown side effects are not reported, known side effects are put into perspective. What is left then?
Your own child must be really unlucky to be just 1 of 1,000 (or 250) children who has to deal with, for example, paralysis or infertility – if that occurs at all. Maybe it's only 1 in 10,000, we don't know. Not knowing is irritating, but not wanting to know that you don't know, that's bad.
It is your own risk assessment or else that of your adolescent, they have a reputation for assessing risks. But the decision to possibly do this to thousands of children, for nothing at all – that doesn't go down with me.
Under 40? Under 50? Under 60?
Many arguments against vaccinating children also apply to anyone under 60 without obesity, underlying lung or heart failure, with a healthy blood level (such as sufficient Vitamin D and Zinc). The Covid symptoms are less favorable than in children but still at a level for which we never forced vaccines in the past, let alone paralyzed the entire country. All hypochondriac have now run to the injection sites and adults, even in the face of mortal fear, are expected to be in their right mind. Children are far from being in their right minds, they are still growing. And certainly not after a year of persistent threats, avalanches of fear and vaccine propaganda.
