BINGHAMTONREVIEW.COM this; in a 1993 memo, Dr. Alexander Fleming, the former FDA medical officer, wrote that it was “regrettable” that this drug was approved with such minimal study. Who’s to say that this won’t happen with the COVID vaccine? This is purely speculation, but it seems that, since the vaccine was simply rushed through during a dire time, there’s not likely to be much more research done past the small amount of clinical trials for each age group, with potentially very little follow-up. Speaking to the fact that the COVID vaccine does not entirely prevent COVID, it’s very interesting that this was approved after many years of attempts to unsuccessfully create a coronavirus vaccine. In the 1960’s, scientists attempted to create a vaccine for RSV and skipped animal trials, deeming them “unnecessary.” When the vaccine was tested out on young children, those who were vaccinated actually got sicker than those who were not, with 80% of those vaccinated ending up in hospitals. Fast-forward to the early 2000s when scientists took another crack at a coronavirus vaccine, this time testing on animals first: during the various different attempts ferrets developed hepatitis, mice and civets became sicker than those not given the vaccine, and mice developed lung disease. Each current coronavirus vaccine was tested alongside animals. While that’s definitely better than not being tested on animals at all, there is no data to show whether or not long-term side effects are possible since there simply has not been enough time that has passed yet. Unless the child lives in a home with several older people or those with pre-existing conditions that make COVID
A MYSTERIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT... more deadly to them, there is no reason they should be forced to take an experimental vaccine in order for them to return to normal social life. The CDC even admits that the vaccine will not prevent transmitting COVID to the vaccinated person, and the clinical trials of the mRNA vaccine produced by Pfizer and Moderna did not include children in their results. The effects of the vaccine on children are still unknown, and if COVID will spread anyway, even with the vaccine, children should not be forced to take it without their parents or guardians knowing all of the possible risks and side effects. While college students are adults, it’s incredibly worrisome that many colleges are taking the route of mandating the COVID vaccine and it sets a dangerous precedent for mandating it in K-12 schools as well. Again, I’m wholeheartedly not anti-vax, I just think that more research needs to come out and time needs to pass before the vaccines for COVID become mandated. The idea behind the vaccines is great, and it’s important to make sure everyone is safe and the pandemic does end, but the quickness at which the vaccines came out is worrying and blindly mandating something like this is also worrying. People deserve the right to choose whether or not they get the vaccine. Vaccines for smallpox, polio, and measles make sense to mandate because of their proven efficacy in stopping their intended viral target; the COVID vaccines do not. Therefore, they should not be so quickly rushed for use by the public, and especially should not be so quickly mandated as a roadblock for our nation’s youth to return to normal life. Bottom line: vaccines good, mandating something without plenty of research bad.
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