Report on Vaccination in Children and Young People

This report analyses the unnecessary and harmful nature of the covid 1913 vaccination strategy developed by the Spanish Ministry of Health aimed at minors14 15.

From among the available vaccines, it has been decided to give them the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine which has not been fully approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA)16.

When most children and young people have asymptomatic or mild disease, without becoming chronic, it is vital to ask whether it is really necessary to administer these drugs. These drugs are still in the experimental phase, as the EMA shows us in the data sheets of these products17 18 19 20, as the Marketing Authorisation Holders (the pharmaceutical companies) have until December 2022 to March 2024 to submit safety and efficacy data. This is why the European Commission has not yet given full marketing authorisation21, and so what they have is a conditional marketing authorisation22. This potentially means that, when phase IV is over, these vaccinations could be rejected by the competent authorities as being recognised as unsafe.

Because of the urgency of the current health situation, they have been allowed to be distributed even without knowing their medium and long-term safety, in pregnant women, in people with immunodeficiency, in interaction with other drugs, etc. This means that there is a probability, unknown but existing (if there were not, the European Commission would have already approved them), of unsuspected harm. This could be multiple, and a potential public health problem that could even affect hereditary effects, as is the case with other drugs23.

Following this introduction, we list the reasons why children and young people should not be vaccinated:

1) The WHO states in its document COVID-19 advice for the public: Getting vaccinated, that "more evidence on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children is needed to be able to make general recommendations on childhood vaccination against COVID-19"24.

2) Data published in the various pharmacovigilance systems: VAERS25(Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) in the United States and EudraVigilance26in Europe, indicate that the harm when administering these drugs is greater than expected, compared to other vaccines already known to have been administered for decades. In fact, myocarditis is the adverse effect that is occurring most frequently, in a higher proportion than expected, among adolescents27 28 and a number of deaths have even been reported, high in proportion to the timing of vaccination in young people, associated with vaccination in minors29.

In other words, more serious side effects are occurring when injecting covid 19 vaccines into minors than if they were to acquire immunity naturally as they have done so far.

3) The survival rate for the 0-19 age group is 99.997%. Such a calculation can be made from information provided by the CDC with the number of infected persons, both asymptomatic and symptomatic, who survive30. This positive result indicates that this group, in the absence of vaccines and thanks to natural immunity, as indicated by recent studies31, successfully overcomes the infection.

4) The lethality data for covid, according to the WHO, is 0.27% for the sum total of all ages32, but the average mortality is at 85 years. When we look at more recent data on the case fatality rate for children under 14 years of age, this is 0.0094% according to the report produced by the Spanish Paediatric Association33 and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III34.

A total of 26 children under the age of 20 have died since the pandemic began, all of them with very serious pre-existing conditions. As confirmed by the study "Low COVID-19 mortality in Spanish children"35 the child fatality rate up to 21 February in the age group 0 to 9 years is 0.18 per 100,000 children, i.e. 0.00018%, or a total of 8 deaths. While in the 10-19 age group there have been 18 deaths in total, or 0.00037%. And the study confirms that, in all cases, with severe comorbidities, it is likely that covid, although present according to a test result, was probably not the cause of death. Current scientific literature seems to suggest that it is very difficult for minors to become ill with covid 19 due to the rapid and effective response of their immune system and because they have fewer ACE2 receptors than adults36 37.

In short, the lethality and mortality38 from covid for children and young people is very low or non-existent. And while it could be argued that protecting against a single death justifies immunising the entire child population, this argument is not taking into consideration that the vaccine is NOT safe, it is still experimental and therefore of undetermined risk.

5) Both children and adolescents have suffered the negative effects of confinement39. A factor that could have increased their chances of becoming ill40, as being forced to stay cooped up at home has not only radically changed their lifestyle but has also led to an increase in stress, sedentary lifestyles, risk of other infectious diseases41 and other serious problems such as an increase in suicides42. Even so, their immune system, as explained above, has shown remarkable robustness against disease.

6) The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use explains that no rare side effects could be detected because the trial involved a small group of children43. And since the data obtained in adult studies cannot be extrapolated to children and adolescents, as their physiological and pathophysiological characteristics are different44, we conclude that in the absence of sufficient guarantees of safety, our children could suffer serious harm, both in the short and long term.

7) For years, various studies45 have been warning of a serious problem that still exists today, namely the underreporting of the adverse effects of medicines, which is visible in other recent reports46 47 47 48. The causes are often a lack of time for workers to register it, not considering it important, etc. But also failures in the registration systems themselves have serious consequences. As a result, infant mortality in Spain soared erronically49affecting the results of the study50published in the internationally prestigious journal The Lancet which had to correct the information as false. This was stated by the Spanish Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases51 in a press release. As these are experimental vaccines, it is already difficult to record adverse effects because they are not yet known and a complete safety profile is not yet available. This increases our distrust of a pharmacovigilance system that does not seem to be working as we expect.

8) In the legal section on vaccination on the website of the Spanish Association of Paediatrics52, it is stated that vaccines are prescribed by the competent health body, and that the Health Administration is responsible for financial damages caused by them, in specific cases. Above all, we are concerned about the long-term damage, taking into account that many of the people who participated in the control group have already been vaccinated, so there is no population that can serve as a reference53 to prove that the vaccine is the cause of this damage. In addition, pressure from pharmaceutical companies54 is hampering research in this area. There is a lot of uncertainty about these previously unused drugs in humans. The fact that the Ministry of Health, with the support of the Government, is the one promoting this vaccination campaign with a drug that generates so many doubts, makes us feel distrustful and lack of support for these entities that we believe should protect children, young people and adults.

9) The end date set by the European Medicines Association for changes to the Paediatric Investigation Plan (PIP) is 202455, i.e. until then there will be no solid data on the safety and efficacy of this vaccine.

10) In a speech on 27 April, the Spanish Finance Minister, María Jesús Montero, stated that 100% of people over 80 years of age have already received the first dose, while around 70% have received both doses56. If the vaccine immunises, and risk groups are already vaccinated, why vaccinate children? Protecting adults at the cost of endangering children and young people is not an ethical motive. Considering vaccination as a condition for a way out of the pandemic is highly debatable.

11) A large group of British doctors have written a letter57 to the chief executive of the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, highlighting ethical and safety concerns about covid 19 vaccination in children. As they say in the letter, "first do no harm". This knowledge is enshrined in the Hippocratic oath, and it is worth remembering. For all medical interventions carry a risk of harm, and therefore caution and proportion must be exercised.

12) By stopping vaccination in children and young people, we can avoid repeating the same mistakes that occurred with other vaccines that were administered under similar conditions to the current ones. As, for example, with the Pandemrix58 vaccine, which produced narcolepsy among young people aged 4 to 18 years, or Dengvaxia, for dengue fever, which was found to have the potential to exacerbate dengue cases in children who had never been infected before, leading to the suspension of the campaign in the Philippines59 60.

13)Stephanie Seneff, a senior research scientist at MIT in Cambridge, and Greg Nigh, a medical oncologist in Portland, have produced a peer-reviewed publication on the possible unintended consequences of covid vaccines. Seneff and Nigh's work suggests that the induced spike protein is toxic and thus causes multiple diseases, and that these vaccines may generate an antibody-dependent potency that triggers serious health problems61.

14) The suggestive persuasion used by the media62 63 64to address the issue of the pandemic is visible when emotions are continuously appealed to, such as, for example, fear. In this way, associating an emotion with a concept leads to a change in behaviour. Gemma Craywinckel, the director of CatSalut, made this statement published in La Vanguardia: "We have not been able to transmit fear to the population. I am worried that people will continue to go out, that they will generate confrontations with the forces of order when they try to make them go home with the curfew"65. If it is being considered and treated as such a serious health problem, which in itself should already have an impact, it seems illogical to us to try to manipulate the population with the tool of fear in order to raise awareness. This leads us to doubt that the seriousness transmitted is equivalent to the real one, as it requires an extra effort to try to make people perceive it as a threat, especially now that they want to carry out this vaccination campaign on children and young people who are being mistreated psychologically and criminalised.

In conclusion, there is NO evidence to justify mass vaccination with hastily approved experimental products in a healthy population with virtually no risk of covid 19. There is also no data to justify the assumption of harm from vaccines.

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