White House denies vaccine adverse effects in children

The White House Monday officially denied the existence of serious side effects in either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines for children, despite scientific data and recent reports. 

Speaking with CBS, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha pushed the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines for children, which were approved by the FDA last week for children 6 months-4-years-old. 

"It's very similar to the side effects we've seen for older kids or for adults,” said Jha, who is credited for the COVID-19 lockdowns and child masking. “About 24 hours of some kids, you know, they kind of don't feel as well, they feel tired, they don't have the same appetite. But thankfully, there have not been any serious side effects of these vaccines. And again, after giving these vaccines to millions of children, it's really reassuring to know that for young kids these vaccines are exceedingly safe." 

As reported by America’s Frontline News, the FDA’s briefing document reveals that only one child required hospitalization for COVID symptoms during the Pfizer study - and that child was in the group that received the Pfizer jab. Zero children in the placebo group were hospitalized for COVID. 

This is known as negative efficacy - the odds of getting hospitalized for an illness are worse if vaccinated than not (though in this case the negative efficacy is statistically insignificant since it’s just one case). 

Similarly, severe COVID was reported in 6 children (out of 3013) who received the Pfizer jab (0.2%), but only 2 (out of 1513) who received the placebo (0.1%). 

But more concerning is Jha’s claim that the infant vaccine’s side effects are “very similar to the side effects we've seen for older kids or for adults”, which raises questions about where the White House gets its information. 

As reported by America’s Frontline News Sunday, the CDC recently admitted to failing to monitor the vaccine’s safety signals as it had promised to do. 

Furthermore, a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that the advent of the COVID-19 vaccine saw a 25% increase in cardiovascular events.  

The researchers studied emergency calls in Israel, one of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world, over a two-and-a-half-year period spanning 2019-2021. Specifically, they looked at emergency calls reporting either cardiac arrests [CA] or acute coronary syndrome [ACS] in the 16-39 age group.  

The study also aimed to determine if the uptick in cardiovascular events was associated with COVID-19 or the COVID-19 vaccine. The findings showed that for the period of January-May 2021, there was a 25% increase in emergency cardiovascular events compared with the same period in 2019 and 2020, and entirely associated with the COVID-19 shot. 

As mentioned, Jha is known by many as the “Founding Father of Lockdowns”, having received widespread media attention in March 2020 for calling for a “national quarantine". Though science has affirmatively rejected the lockdown method, Jha never retracted his position. 

Jha is also credited as being partially responsible for the “two weeks to flatten the curve” strategy.  

In April 2020, Jha said that the U.S. didn’t lock down fast enough.  

The mainstream media anointed Jha as the COVID “expert”, despite not being a virologist, vaccinologist or immunologist, and showered him with attention.  

“He has been one of the most publicly visible public health experts in America, appearing on networks and shows from Newsmax to MSNBC to Sesame Street,” reports the Daily Caller. “In the first 14 months of the pandemic, despite not being a virologist, immunologist or vaccinologist, Jha either appeared or was cited on television news more than 60,000 times, according to TVEyes. He was making 10-12 TV appearances per day at his peak. He claims to have, at one point, been receiving more than 100 media requests per day.”  

Jha also pushed for masking children, even urging Democratic governors who began to lift mask mandates to keep kids masked, despite them being the lowest-risk age group.