June 2023

Here is some good news for a change on the vaccination front.

 

Elizabeth M. Hesse, M.D. MTM& H et al presented a paper in the May 2023 edition of PEDIATRICS entitled “Covid-19 Vaccine Safety First Year Findings in Adolescents”. Vol. 151, Nu 5, May 2023.

 

172,032 vaccinations were given to teens, ages 12-to-17 years old. Out of this group only 610 teens had a significant reaction. That amounts to only 0.35% of the adolescents.

 

In addition, out of the 0.35% the vast majority (that is 77%) reported complete symptom resolution of the reaction.

 

The article concluded saying that most adverse reactions were mild and self-limited. No serious safety concerns were identified. The two advances in medicine that have saved the most lives are vaccinations and antibiotics. Vaccinations have prevented millions of deaths due to whopping cough. It has squelched the terrible crippling disease of polio and has suppressed the fatal grip that smallpox had on the world.

 

Let us act like informed parents and vaccinate our children against the potential crippling and fatal diseases that plagued the world in the past.

 

Personal freedom does not give parents the right to put their children at risk. I cannot believe that parents have the right to let their children play with a sharp knife or a loaded gun. Refusing your child the protection of proven safe vaccinations is doing just that.