Should You Get the Shot?

After the CDC approved both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines this week, some people may be wondering if they and their families should get the shot. Given that neither Alameda County Public Health nor CDC nor most health organizations or public media are presenting an accurate picture of the risks, it is important for people to do their own due diligence. The latest Pfizer vax was approved based on antibody tests of 20 mice, with no human trials and no control group. The Moderna vax was approved with just a 100 person trial, with no control group either. One out of the 50 people getting the new Moderna vax had an adverse reaction requiring medical attention. That would have been a red flag for any honest regulator.

The CDC says the new vaccines will have a 0 to 25% effectiveness against hospitalization within 3 to 4 months. Those are not good numbers, especially given the quick rate with which the effectiveness drops and the fact you end up with negative vaccine efficacy. For adolescents 12 - 17 years, the CDC says it will prevent between 0 and 1 death for every one million doses. Yet the CDC says the original Pfizer vax just for males 16-17 had a myocarditis rate of 188 per million doses. Not to mention other side effects. Problems like that are one reason that Germany, Britain, and Australia no longer recommend Covid vaccines for the vast majority of people under age 65. For the CDC to do a blanket recommendation for everyone 6 months and older is a sad comment on their sense of ethics.

–Bruce Barron, Castro Valley