OPINION:
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that was supposed to protect kids ages 5 to 11 from catching the virus with a 68% efficacy rate has now been outed as nearly ineffective. Its efficacy rate is actually only, get this, 12%.
Another day, another one bites the dust.
The running theme here with all of these coronavirus vaccines is that they’re increasingly failing to deliver as promised. Their efficacy rates are dropping like flies.
“The low-dose version of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine appears to be much less effective at protecting young children against infection than the higher-dose version … given to older children and adults, a new study shows,” NPR wrote. “Researchers from the New York State Department of Health found the ability of the vaccine to protect children who got the lowest dose — kids ages 5 to 11 — from catching the virus dropped the most, falling from 68% to just 12%.”
You don’t say.
What’s even more interesting is that this age group, the 5-to-11-year-old group, doesn’t even get sick from the coronavirus anyway. So the fact the shot doesn’t seem to work on them isn’t a cause for alarm.
Wow. Natural immunity. What a concept.
What is a cause for alarm, though, is a government and medical bureaucracy that keeps telling Americans, all of America, all Americans of all age groups, to get the shot, take the shot, get the shot and its many, many, ever-growing-in-number, many boosters — because, we’re all told, it’s the way to save us from getting COVID, spreading COVID, dying from COVID.
Except it’s not.
Except we’re not supposed to notice that.
Well, people are starting to notice.
For both the two-dose messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccines and for the RNA-1273, “vaccine effectiveness against Covid-19 was 94.5% … and 95.9%, respectively, at 2 months after the first dose and decreased to 66.6% and 80.3%, respectively, at 7 months,” The New England Journal of Medicine wrote.
For the one-dose shot, effectiveness was 74.8% at the first month, then fell to 59.4% at the fifth month.
The NEJM found that all the shots effectively reduced the risks of hospitalization and deaths due to COVID.
But these aren’t exactly the magic elixirs they were promised to be.
“Pfizer Covid vaccine protection against infection tumbles to 47 percent, study confirms,” CNBC reported in October.
“COVID Vaccines’ Protection Dropped Sharply Over 6 Months: Study,” WebMD reported in November, when it was discovered Johnson & Johnson’s effectiveness fell from 86% to 13%.
And now: “Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness fell quickly for kids,” CNN reported just this week.
These aren’t vaccines. These are chemicals jolted into individuals’ bodies for the purpose of allowing scientists and researchers to see what happens.
And what’s happening is this: Truths are being revealed that the Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates and Big Government way of protecting Americans, nay, the world, from a virus doesn’t and shouldn’t supplant individual choice.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise Or America Will Fall,” is available by clicking HERE.
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