Covid vaccine to be added to CDC schedule of recommended childhood vaccines

The Covid vaccine will most likely be required for children to attend school in states that don’t allow exemptions.

That’s the upshot of today’s decision by the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, ACIP, which voted 15-0 to add the vaccines to the schedule of recommended vaccines.

I wasn’t surprised by this decision or that things went in this direction.

I assumed early on that the Covid vaccines would be added to the schedule.

Why wouldn’t they be?

After all, the polio vaccine is on the CDC’s schedule of childhood vaccines, even though an American child born today (or even 20 years ago) has ZERO chance of contracting polio. It’s not one in a million, or even one in ten million or 100 million. It’s literally zero.

Of course kids can get Covid. But how many have died from it?

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson early on began taking a hard look at the number of deaths of children from Covid the CDC was reporting, and after reviewing each case, determined that there didn’t appear to be any cases in which a child truly died from Covid — not a single one.

Not long after, I began taking a look at the state where I live — Indiana.

In August of 2021, I asked our state health department in an email how many of the 11 deaths from Covid for people ages 0-19 that appeared on the state dashboard were people who had terminal illnesses, and asked which co-morbidities they had.

The response I received was:

“We do not have the death information analyzed in the way you are requesting.”

I pressed them, writing in reply:

“But this is a crucial question, so I can not accept that the information has just not been analyzed this way. Surely the Indiana State Department of Health knows: How many of these 11 children in the state of Indiana died of Covid, with Covid as the cause of death, as opposed to dying of something else while having had a positive test result for Covid-19?”

This was the response I received:

“The deaths listed on our dashboard are those for which the death certificate lists COVID-19 as a cause of death.”

But when I again asked the department about child deaths from Covid in November of 2021, I got a different answer. They told me that deaths are counted as Covid deaths if Covid is listed as the cause of death… AND also if it is listed as a contributing cause, and not the main cause.

Completely different!

Here is exactly what they said:

“Deaths are counted in the COVID-19 total only if the cause of death was listed on the death certificate as COVID-19 or if COVID-19 was listed as a contributing cause.”

When I asked for a breakdown of how many death certificates showed Covid as the cause of death and how many listed it as “a contributing cause,” I was told they didn’t have this breakdown.

Then in January, I got yet another answer, with the department telling me in an email that a death is listed as a Covid death if Covid is listed ANYWHERE on the death certificate.

“Our records show a total of 30 pediatric deaths due to COVID. Four occurred in 2020 and 26 in 2021. A death is counted as COVID related if it is listed anywhere on the death certificate. We do not have a further breakdown,” they wrote.

At one point in the summer or fall of 2021, I spent hours combing through news reports, trying to find a case of a child in Indiana who had died of Covid.

It would be big news, of course, if a little first-grader in the state died of Covid. It would be the top story on the Indianapolis TV stations. The parents would be interviewed. Reporters would be on site, doing live broadcasts from in front of the child’s school. We’d read about the funeral service and probably see video footage of a small coffin being carried into a church.

No such news story exists.

The closest thing I could find was a news story about an 18-year-old in northwest Indiana who died after six months in the hospital, being treated for Covid.

This news report says that he died minutes after his aorta burst and that he’d had a heart operation and was on a feeding tube.

Carlos Nunez, left, died after spending six months in the hospital. His death was called a Covid death even though

Was he being treated with Remdesivir?

In the NIAID-funded clinical trial for Ebola in 2018, Remdesivir was yanked from the trial after a stunning 54 percent of the people to whom it was given died within 28 days. The lethal side effects included multiple organ failure, renal failure and hypertension.

Remdesivir was and is the CDC-recommended treatment for Covid, and all major hospitals appear to be using it.

A Remdesivir death is not a Covid death, of course. It is death-by-hospital.

There was also a news report of a death of a 19-year-old from Covid, but again, it didn’t sound like Covid death. The young man had a congenital heart issue, and it sounds as though he contracted Covid in the hospital where he’d gone for treatment for his heart.

Early on, there was a story of a 16-year-old in the state who died from Covid. But as with the other cases, there was clearly something else going on.

In this case, advanced and undiagnosed diabetes. The boy was fine when his mother left for work in the morning, but by afternoon was weak and unable to grasp objects. He was hospitalized and died within days after doctors failed to stabilize his blood sugar.

The story says he hadn’t left the house since the start of the pandemic and loved to play video games.

It’s sad that no one realized that he had diabetes until it was too late.

There was a story this year about a three-month-old baby who died of Covid — at least in the headline.

When you actually read the story you find out that the baby had two broken legs and had been left alone with his siblings for hours at a time, though he appeared to have a bad cold and was struggling to breathe, and that the mother was not at home when he’d stopped breathing. Oh, and the home had no electricity and was rodent-infested and there was no food.

As Berenson saw when he started researching this more than a year ago, it appears that some child abuse cases are being re-branded as Covid deaths.

I live in a town of about 80,000 and my son attends public school. I’m connected with many parents of public and private schoolchildren, and also with homeschooling parents. We have not heard of any child in town who was hospitalized for Covid, or who had a particularly serious case of it.

We do know of a teenager from a private school about one mile from our home who was hospitalized after getting a Covid vaccine — not just hospitalized, but had to be transferred to the children’s hospital in Indianapolis where he spent several days and nights.

There was nothing reported in the media about his case.

All of my attempts to get comment from the Indiana State Department of Health about vaccine injuries and deaths in the state have been rebuffed, with staff referring me to the CDC for all information about adverse events, saying they don’t track them.

I’ve repeatedly requested to speak directly with Dr. Kristina Box, the state health commissioner or with Dr. Lindsay Weaver, the state’s chief medical officer, but have been told that they are not available for interviews.

Indiana and other states have the authority to decide which vaccines are required for school attendance. They don’t have to add the Covid vaccine to that list and certainly should not given the glaring evidence, in VAERS and the V-Safe data, that the Covid vaccines carry only risk of serious injury and even death, while conferring no benefit.