Karen Bascom authored the following press release for UMC.
A trio of scientific papers on the effects of COVID-19 in children emphasizes its risks and the strong benefits of vaccination.
The articles come from Overcoming COVID-19, a national study on COVID-19 in children and adolescents. Children’s of Mississippi at the University of Mississippi Medical Center is one of 70 pediatric hospitals working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct the wide-ranging research.
Dr. Charlotte Hobbs, professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UMMC, is a co-author of the articles. She says all three include children treated at the Medical Center.
“It’s important for Mississippians to know that these studies include patients from here,” Hobbs said, because it shows the contributions of the state of our understanding of COVID-19, and that the study findings represent what’s happening in Mississippi and elsewhere.
One paper published online December 21, 2021 in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal looked at a sometimes-ignored population of COVID-19 patients: infants.
The study identified 630 patients aged 0-18 with severe COVID-19 across 50 of their hospital sites between March-December 2020. Of those, 128 were under a year old, and half of those were under two months old.
This finding – 20 percent – is a “disproportionate” result, Hobbs and her co-authors wrote.
What makes it more alarming is the relative health of the babies: two-thirds of the infants had no serious health conditions prior to their COVID-19 diagnosis. However, 77 percent had respiratory complications and 13 percent needed a ventilator during their treatment.
“This paper is the first to characterize infant COVID-19, which can be severe,” said Hobbs, the first author on the paper. “Because it can be severe and infants are not yet eligible for vaccine, maternal vaccination should be underscored as important to protect those infants.”
Maternal vaccination includes pregnant women and postpartum mothers. She also encourages vaccination for every eligible person in the household, child or adult, in order to protect infants and other children under age five who are not yet eligible.
Vaccinating older children has another benefit: personal protection for themselves.
A second paper published January 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at how well the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine protected adolescents aged 12-17 from severe COVID-19.
In a group of more than 1200 people followed from July-October 2021, the study found that the two-dose vaccination was 94 percent effective at preventing hospitalization and 98 percent effective in preventing ICU and life support care. None of the seven children who died were fully vaccinated.
Overall, these findings reflect the situation at UMMC.
“The children we see at Children’s of Mississippi are largely unvaccinated although eligible, or they are unvaccinated because they are too young,” Hobbs said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and CDC authorized and recommended the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine for people age 16 and older in December 2020. Mississippi opened vaccine appointments for all people in this age range in March 2021, among the first states in the country to do so. The FDA and CDC later cleared the shots for younger children: 12- to 15-year olds in May 2021, and 5- to 11-year olds on November 2, 2021.
Only 6 percent of Mississippi kids aged 5-11 and 35 percent aged 12-17 have received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. That’s among the lowest vaccination rates in the United States, which has overall rates of 19 and 55 percent in these age groups.
And with flu season underway, vaccination against infectious diseases becomes all the more critical.
“Coinfection with other viruses” – such as influenza, human metapneumovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- “can also occur and anecdotally the children we see with two viruses can be quite sick,” Hobbs said.
It’s not just the short-term effects of COVID-19 that have pediatricians concerned, says Dr. Anita Henderson, president of the Mississippi Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
“We are seeing children who are suffering from long-term symptoms, or long COVID. These symptoms, even in kids, include shortness of breath, fatigue and high heart rate. And so acute infection is not the only thing that worries us as pediatricians,” Henderson said.
The third article, published January 7 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, showed that vaccination is also effective at preventing multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).
Using data from 283 participants in July-December 2021, the researchers found that two doses of the Pfizer vaccine were 91 percent effective in preventing MIS-C and 100 percent effective in preventing cases that required life support.
MIS-C is a rare but serious complication of COVID-19 infection that effects the child’s health after recovery from the initial infection. The immune system attacks healthy cells in blood vessels, the heart and other organs. MIS-C can occur even in kids who had asymptomatic COVID-19.
“This recent data shows vaccine efficacy against infection and also MIS-C in 12- to 17-year-olds,” Hobbs said.
She also notes that MIS-C is more common in children aged 5-11, who only recently became eligible for the vaccine.
“This is another really good reason to make sure all children who are eligible for vaccine, are vaccinated,” Hobbs said.
Because of the timing of these studies, they do not include infections with the highly contagious Omicron variant.
“We are seeing huge surges in sick children at the hospital. Omicron being so incredibly transmissible means that even if most people who get it are not severely ill, a proportion of a large number is a large number,” Hobbs said. “While most children still do okay with COVID, a percentage do not, and so we still see a large number of children sick.
“In addition, Omicron seems to favor upper respiratory tracts, which in smaller children can be more dangerous since their airways are proportionately small,” she said.
Another Omicron-related challenge are the limited treatment options compared to Delta and other variants. Vaccination and boosting for all eligible are critical to minimize disease burden.
“It’s important to protect children from becoming infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus since we have fewer monoclonal antibodies options since some of them are not effective against the Omicron variant, and what we have is in very limited supply and only children 12 and up are eligible under the Emergency Use Authorization. The same goes for the new COVID antivirals at this time.” Hobbs said.
“We know that vaccinations work to help prevent severe disease and hospitalization. Vaccinations reduce the risk of MIS-C. The majority of children hospitalized throughout the country now are unvaccinated,” Henderson said. “Pediatricians want to keep kids in school, we want to keep kids out of the hospital, and we want to protect families. Vaccinations are our best tool to help keep kids safe, healthy, and learning.”
55 comments:
They gonna ride the dead horse until it's dog food I guess. RSV has been killing kids for years at a higher rate than SARS !! Co Mor Bid IT teeeez. See Dr. Dobbs, you can say it if you spell it wrong ! The madness needs to stop. You got paid, is it not enough ?
Bullshit
two words:
Childhood Obesity
Fake news. It's just a cold. And the election was stolen.
She has Ken Langone and Anthony Fauci written all over her past. "Placed" in this position for this moment. Poor kids.
No mention of the childhood obesity, nor that Fauci paid to have Epstein Arkancided.
When is the Dobbs/Fauci book going to be released?
2:46 : Poor kids indeed. Especially if their parents are idiot sock puppets.
KF, you should do a public records request to see how much UMMC is getting paid for pushing the vaccines. At this point, no one can make the argument with a straight face that the vaccines work after a period of time, and even then only those who are health-compromised should even do a risk benefit analysis of whether they should be injected. So to continue to push the vaccines, even when it is clear they do nothing against omicron, one can only conclude that someone is getting paid. Period. It certainly isn't because "[v]accinations are our best tool to help keep kids safe, healthy, and learning." That isn't misinformation. That isn't a half-truth. That is lie. There are entirely too many risks with the covid vaccine compared to that of a healthy immune system of a child or of an adult, for that matter.
2:25, and the Earth is flat. COVID isn’t real, but if it were real, it’s spread by 5G towers. Big Foot is real. So is Santa. 2 plus 2 does not equal four. That’s just what the mainstream media wants you to think.
What you said is on the same level as what I said in this comment. Sad thing is that you probably believe it. God help us all.
One good thing the China Virus has done is make it plain as day that the provider side of the medical establishment is totally controlled by Big Pharma.
If you don’t agree with the results of a study, just call it fake news. This is the bold new world of alternate truths that has infected the right wing.
This will stir the MPVR nut jobs !
If anyone wants a different perspective on why the government is pushing for vaccinating children, check out Candice Owen's recent Instagram stories and posts (realcandiceowens is her handle). She goes into DETAIL with PROOF on the ins and outs of the government pushing vaccinations on kids. She covers all the childhood immunizations, not just COVID. All of her research and data come directly from the CDC, FDA, and DDC. It's worth a watch, and may open your eyes to what is really going on.
The truth is on the government & big pharm websites, but Americans just blindly follow the media and/or what their doctors advise, without doing their own research.
Remember, docs get perks from pharmaceutical companies (and it seems the government now, also) to administer vaccines & prescribe meds. Time to wake up, America, and do your own research on your sickcare. Follow the money...
Karen Bascom....Carol Baskin . The similarities are downright crazy. One of my cousins kids, very plump , got the rona. The juiced him up for a week with fresh fruit and high volumes of zinc and vit c. He did fine and lost 27 pounds. Now he thinks he's a ladies man.
more bought and paid for medical BS ...
So vaccinate the entire family to "protect the infant" with a vaccine that doesn't keep anyone from getting, or transmitting the virus? Someone is slurping the kool-aid.
yeah, right, sure
Studies Shmuddies
So across 50 hospitals from March to December they only had 630 cases in people 0-18? That's 12 per hospital or less than 2 a month per hospital on average. 13% of the 128 infants on ventilators is 16 or roughly a third of child per hospital on average.
Not to be callous but less than 2 patients a month per hospital is a giant nothingburger.
We’ve never approved or recommended a vaccine for pregnant women with less than 5 years of testing. Any doctors recommending this are misguided at best and just following orders at worst.
You have to be like the left believe anything and everything that the Nanny State Overlords tell you.
The value of a Mississippi education is on full display in these comments. We have got some first ballot hall of fame dumbasses around here.
Not many rational commenters on this topic.
This crap is so offensive at this level it should be penalized
Some of y’all need to grow up and realize life isn’t full of crazy conspiracies trying to get you. Good grief. Your life is boring, get over yourself, and do the Christian thing and help your neighbors.
Change my previous comment. It applies to most all of the previous comments, not just the first four. Only the last few have any sense of reality.
What does the studies say?
—said no one, ever
“We have got some.”
Ivy League education on full display.
You got it 8:07. There really is a downside to living in an asylum with the inmates in charge. On the other hand it is funny, I can barely stop laughing long enough to post this . . . and BTW what does poor Ken Langone have to do with it?
From a local doctor *this data is several weeks old. Sounds like vaccines help as much as buying two mega millions lottery tickets.
“5-17 year olds in MS entire pandemic MSDH data:
# CoVID infections: 85,695
# CoVID hospitalizations: 156
# CoVID deaths: 6
Risk of hospitalization from CoVID: 0.18%
Risk of dying from CoVID: 0.007%
How much more will vaccinating and boosting healthy kids improve those percentages?
Even if vaccinations and booster reduced the risk of hospitalization and death by half… that’s only:
0.09% improvement in risk of hospitalizations
0.0035% improvement in risk of death”
@10:34
The devil’s greatest accomplishment is convincing you that he doesn’t exist.
And TPTB aren’t concerned with me as much as they are concerned with keeping enough of you sheeple complacent and consuming. They’ve already written people like me off and their AI has categorized me into a high threat profile. I am unconcerned because in my 20’s in the early 2000s, I did all of the globetrotting in SE Asia, South Africa, and South America that I cared to do. And Europe today has gone utter shit. So I don’t have to willingly get on an aircraft every again.
If they didn't want kids to die, maybe they shouldn't have created the virus.
"In the future, we will eliminate the soul with medicine...children will be vaccinated with a substance that can be produced precisely in such a way that people, thanks to this vaccination, will be immune to being subjected to the madness of spiritual life" Rudolph Steiner 1917. Modern bioethicists call this "moral bioenhancement" and assert that it should not only be compulsory, but covert. See: "Compulsory Bioenhancement Should Be Covert", Bioethics, Jan. 2019
There is NO FDA approved vaccine in the USA. Until the current stock of jabs with an EUA are used up ... no cominarity. It's not here nor is it being manufactured. Only a fool would jab their children. UMMC has a perverse financial incentive. Your life is worth about 100k when all the incentives are given to the killers. If they kill you for 'organ harvesting' then you're worth a lot more!
Since the CDC wouldn't do its damn job and study Covid-19 deaths in chidren, John Hopkins did. What did it find? It found that 95% of Covid-19 deaths in children were in children with very serious co-morbidities such as cancers, heart disease, etc.
This fear mongering by MSDH is shameful, and, if Tater had an ounce of courage, he would fire Doomsday Dobbs.
@8:48 - that is a flat out lie on every single point you made. Thanks for making everyone who read your comment dumber.
10:49 : You better get to looking into it. Poster told no lies and folks like you need to pull your head from the sand, and quick. As a former service member I am not anti-vax and believe this current "vax" only works on those with issues and the elderly. The last 2.5 years have been a straight up money grab and those getting the profit should be jailed.
10:49 I suggest you change TV channels. You're way off base. Please try to educate yourself.
So we are looking at an industry which makes their living coming up with expensive drugs and treatments to treat sick people...and we expect that a 'vaccine' drug is going to make everybody healthy and not sick?
@12:24 - both the Pfizer and Moderna are fda approved. That was a LIE.
Ummc does not have a perverse financial incentive to talk up vaccinating children. THAT WAS A LIE. They have a moral and legal obligation to tell parents the facts.
UMMC is not killing people to sell their organs for $100,000. That was a LIE.
Clearly, your time in service didn’t do anything good for your mental well-being and it didn’t give you any special medical abilities or knowledge. Go to the VA and tell them you need help. There are resources available for people like you.
@2:03,
Alright, let’s do this. Yes, Pfizer’s Comirnaty (named to uphold collectivist ideals, Pfizer themselves admitted that) and Modernas Spikevax are FDA approved. Little problem. YOU CANT FUCKING GET THEM! Anywhere. You can get the EUA shots (Which are allegedly the same thing) everywhere. The problem is, EUA you can’t sue if you are injured AND, in some insurance clauses, they won’t cover damages from taking an unapproved drug. But you know that, don’t you.
False, UMC is a business like any other and get paid by insurance companies and the state and federal governments to push products (if you aren’t aware, that is literal, textbook fascism that you purple haired rejects “protested” against last summer.) But you know that, don’t you.
As per standard communist operating procedure, you immediately bring up this mans mental health. ALL of you authoritarian, communist, collectivist scum do that. It was used as a weapon during the russian revolution and the takeover of China by Mao. But you know that, don’t you.
I don’t think UMMC has any idea how bad their credibility has been destroyed. They turned physicians into parrots spitting out the same mantra almost word for word. They have been “often wrong but never in doubt” for 2 years and are too arrogant to realize the disgust so many of us feel. All the public needed was open honest dialogue, a willingness to look at all possibilities, to say when they are wrong, and to sometimes say “we just don’t know”. I am almost 60 and I have heard government officials and experts say the words “we did the best we could at the time with the information that was available” too many times after uncovering so much unnecessary death and human misery. We never expected the medical community to be gods or be perfect, unfortunately they can’t stop acting like they are both.
10:49 ... Please take your jab and shut up. If you're not bright enough to listen to someone besides Fraudci ... it is a shame. Where are the damn 'approved' vaccines given in this country? Give us a location. Prove the VAERS database is wrong with over 20,000 deaths from the jab. Put your money where your mouth is. You can't? Oh well - take the clot shot and be quiet. Those of us who actually research are tired of pharmakeia lovers like you. Pray to your medical gods daily ... take your pills and make sure to take plenty of boosters! Please. Thank you.
Kingfish... I've looked to you for years to provide news and insights that the main stream media ignores. I'm been sorely disappointed in how you have addressed the covid issue. There is no much information out there that contradicts the we're being told by government officials, health-care bureaucrats and the media. I don't know what the whole truth is but we have been lied to consistently. Senator Ron Johnson seems to be alone in trying to gather and present information. Here's a nurse with a compelling message. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SVO0lc_1_o
2:03 : You hurt my feelings. :(
Vaccinated soul third diagnosis of COVID: “The jab doesn’t work! I’ve had it THREE times!”
Unvaccinated soul that died after their first infection: “Hmmmm….I would like to have made it to that second or third infection. Maybe there’s something to that ‘jab’.”
If I took 3 polio vaccinations in one year and still contracted polio, I'd be asking questions. Understood?
KF, serious question...
Does it not concern you that the majority of your readers/commenters are narrow-minded, jackass, tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists?
Are you kidding me with these comments??
I have great respect for Dr. Fauci and Dr. Dobbs.
This is a novel and evolving virus and treatment and vaccines evolve as they learn more. Vaccines help protect you from contracting the virus and if you do get it, it will not be as severe.
You were most likely lined up in school as a child to receive a polio or measles vaccine without your parents acting like damn idiots.
Trump LOST -legally.
President Biden is not perfect, but he's a better human.
I know these opinions are not popular here, but I'm not afraid of attacks from anonymous keyboards belonging to said conspiracy theorists.
2:18 : Dr Fauci has created a virus that is essentially a cousin to AIDS and give it to the world so he could now just yesterday introduce an AIDS vaccine ! The man has a self portrait in his home office ! And now we are finding out his investments and net worth. This man is as close to the devil as anyone we have seen ! Dr. Dobbs is a D.C. lacky. his own kid works as lobbiest for big pharma.
2:18 Try to keep up - Johns Hopkins published a meta-analysis today reporting the entire farce we have endured for almost two years (i.e., shutdowns, masks, isolation, etc)has done basically ZERO to fight COVID. Details and links available here:
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397701
I don't know why they released it on a Friday afternoon, with no press release, since that guarantees almost no press coverage.
4:34 and 4:36, you're so deep in the conspiracy.
I love you "sane" people who scoff at the "conspiracy theorists". Turn off the idiot box and go do some research.
It baffles me that people believe their overlords in the federal government/Big Pharma have their health and best interests at heart. This is exactly like the military/industrial complex Ike warned about. If there are psychopathic, evil people who will foment wars for profit, is it really a stretch to understand they will plan a "pandemic" for nefarious reasons? We are just sheep and profit generators to these people.
Go read RFK Jr.'s book about Fauci and this whole sordid affair.
5:02 - Take your clot shot and be quiet. Try to research if you can read. Start with Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Robert Malone and Dr David Martin. Refusal to research shows how ignorant one can be. Turn off your boob tube and find your information from reputable doctors. They aren't on your main stream idiot screen. Oh and take your booster because almost everyone gets the viruz after a booster. :-)
"...Unvaccinated Kids Bear Brunt..."
Well, JUST DAMN. I thought this was going to be about the history of Alabama football.
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