Annie Oeth authored the following UMMC press release.
Protection against COVID-19 for her youngest children, Omari, 4, and Olliver, 8 months, is something Kenyatice Shaw has been waiting for.
“I've been asking Dr. (Anza) Stanley about it for months, so when it was available, I wanted them to get it,” said Shaw, an administrative assistant at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. “COVID is still out there.”
Shaw’s sons were among the first children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at Children’s of Mississippi’s Batson Kids Clinic on the campus of the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Vaccinations for children in this age group began July 5 at the clinic, located at 421 S. Stadium Drive in Jackson.
"Parents of young children have waited a long time to vaccinate their children against COVID-19,” Stanley said. “I'm encouraging vaccinations for my patients if they’re eligible. This gives children and their families an extra layer of protection, especially with cases rising.”
In Mississippi as well as nationally, COVID-19 cases have been on the rise again this summer. In the U.S., nearly 76,000 new cases of COVID-19 were reported for the week ending June 30.
For children receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine who are between 4 and 5 years old, an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and approved by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allows for the two-dose series or three doses, each of which are a tenth of the adult dose. The vaccine had been authorized for use in individuals 5 years of age and older.
Dr. April Palmer, professor and chief of pediatric infectious diseases, said COVID-19 vaccinations have been proven to be safe.
“COVID-19 vaccines have been proven to be safe for children, as millions of doses have been given to adults and children during the past 15 months,” Palmer said. “Many children have mild symptoms or no symptoms with COVID-19, but some children have become seriously ill and needed hospitalization for COVID symptoms and complications, and some children have died. COVID-19 vaccination protects children and can prevent them from spreading the virus to others in their family.”
Dr. Charlotte Hobbs, professor of pediatric infectious diseases co-authored a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that the primary series of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccinations reduced the risk of COVID-related hospitalizations by 68 percent during the Omicron outbreak earlier this year.
For older children, during the Delta period, vaccine effectiveness against critical illness with COVID-19 (requiring life support) was found to be 96 percent among adolescents ages 12-18 who were vaccinated with a primary series. Vaccine effectiveness against non-critical COVID-19-associated hospitalization without any requirement for life support was 91 percent.
“We know that the vaccine will not likely protect against infection completely, but it will protect against more symptomatic and certainly severe disease,” Hobbs said.
Palmer advises parents with questions about vaccinations to consult with their pediatrician. Parents can make vaccination appointments for their children online at umc.edu/healthcare/make-an-
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I was able to intercept an entire pallet of Pfizer vaccine, 4000 doses at 2 shots per dose. I've got it stored in a chest freezer in my garage. I've been injecting myself every day, sometimes multiple times a day if I can stand it. The symptoms were terrible for the first few weeks. There were times I was completely paralyzed with pain, contorted like the Edvard Munch paining and frozen in agony for hours. I became stronger and some of the worst symptoms subsided over time. I've been vaxmaxxing for almost 4 months now and I feel as though I'm becoming something greater than human now. I will continue to administer the injections into the same arm as long as possible. I'm increasing the dosages as much as I can stand and will maintain my journal.
If my baby has an A1C of 9.2 and a 50+ BMI, I will get him the vaccine. Otherwise, I'll pass.
Medicine has become a disgrace. Shame on the physicians for going along with this charade. Shame on the American Academy of Pediatrics. Zero kids, aged 0-9 years old, have died in the US with Covid as the single cause of death. There are barely any "hospitalized" cases among this age group with Covid as the single cause.
Please do not inject your helpless child with this "therapeutic." There is no net benefit to it. And, yes, despite what the narrative is, there are real risks to taking the Covid therapeutic injection.
Pure evil!!!
I wouldn't take a stray dog to ummc - much less my child. They're raking in the bucks with this crap. 'Medical Care' is the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA. Look it up. BMJ
"COVID-19 vaccination protects children and can prevent them from spreading the virus to others in their family.”
Just this week, Dr. Fauci even admitted the Covid shot does not prevent infection/transmission. Dr. Wallensky, the CDC Director, has been saying it since August of 2021.
Totally safe for kids who are not at risk.
https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/child-summaries
If you don’t believe in vaccines or doctors, then go rub some crystals on your head and go about your day. No one cares about your medical opinions except for the other wackos on your Facebook group. Darwin awards are easy to earn these days.
I'm not sure they really know what the vaccine does or if it prevents anything because it is still in trials, on us, and their stories keep changing.
I am more sure that they will release another variant this fall to panic the mid-terms, and/or start a war.
"If you don’t believe in vaccines or doctors, then go rub some crystals on your head and go about your day."
Oh, I believe in vaccines, but this isn't a vaccine according to the literal definition of a vaccine. Doctors in the US are nothing more than pill pushers these days - they never attempt to get root cause of disease, especially chronic diseases cancers, heart disease, and diabetes. This is evidenced by the US's average lifespan not increasing while the lifespans in other developed nations have. This is evidenced by how little time is spent with each doctor when you have an appointment. And, we know why - How else would they afford that second home in Florida panhandle if not for the line of patients running through their doors each day? There is no evidence based medicine anymore; it's all based on what the medical association you belong to tells you to the evidence is and the you lazily regurgitate it to your patients (hello Covid "vaccines"). But, by all means, keep getting your shot every 5 months for the rest of your life.
Yes sir, totally safe, until it ain't. At least that's what the follow the science crowd says.
Then, you only follow the science that agrees with your state sponsored authoritarian, pronoun approved, totally accepted, twitter reinforced opinion. Of course, this does not include previous science which concluded there were only two genders, which is systemically racist.
That reeducation camp is doing wonders for my social score. Hail Fauci.
UMMC is the dirtiest game in town.
@1:29, enjoy your Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome at 35, you worthless millennial
Learn to code
@2:13, they started yesterday. Omicron subvariant B5 (the “ninja” variant, because “stealth” wasn’t scary enough) just in time for mail in voting at midterms
The risk of vaccine induced myocarditis or pericarditis outweighs the risk of COVID in these patients. Shocking that medicine leadership pushes the vaccine in the ultra low risk population.
@7:52, because it’s not a preventative or a treatment. At this point there is no possible way to justify this as not being homicide
“The calls and text messages are relentless. On the other end are doctors and scientists at the top levels of the NIH, FDA and CDC. They are variously frustrated, exasperated and alarmed about the direction of the agencies to which they have devoted their careers.
“It's like a horror movie I'm being forced to watch and I can't close my eyes,” one senior FDA official lamented. “People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”
That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency. First, how, with no solid clinical data, the agency authorized Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had Covid. And second, the fact that just months before, the FDA bypassed their external experts to authorize booster shots for young children.“
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