How ‘Public Health’ Officials Lie to Parents about COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11 Year Old Children

On the morning of December 7, 2021, I saw a new advertisement from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) on the social media platform Nextdoor promoting the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as age five. The ad directs parents to get more information at a webpage of the Michigan state government.

In this video, I review and fact check the ad and the information provided to parents by state health officials, showing how supposedly trustworthy “public health” officials, rather than empowering parents with the knowledge they need to make an informed choice, are misleading and blatantly lying to parents to persuade them to comply with the policy goal of achieving high vaccine uptake.

Following are links to the sources that I discuss in the video:

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Advertisement, “One Family’s Reason,” Nextdoor, Posted and accessed on December 7, 2021, https://nextdoor.com/p/j7XdK82KZBsQ.

Michigan State Government, “Kids COVID-19 Vaccine,” Michigan.gov, accessed December 7, 2021, https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98178_103214_109111---,00.html.

Michigan State Government, “COVID-19 Vaccine Questions and Answers for Parents,” Michigan.gov, November 3, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021, https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/Parent_FAQs_5.14_Final_725378_7.pdf.

Jeremy R. Hammond, “Health Care Providers Mislead about Risks vs. Benefits of COVID-19 Vaccines for Children,” Jeremy R. Hammond.com, November 17, 2021, https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2021/11/17/health-care-providers-mislead-about-risks-vs-benefits-of-covid-19-vaccines-for-children/.

Michigan State Government, “Statewide Available PPE and Bed Tracking,” Michigan.gov, updated December 6, 2021, accessed and archived December 7, 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20211207201750/https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98159-523641--,00.html.

Michigan State Government, “Michigan Data,” Table: Demographics > Deaths, Michigan.gov, updated December 6, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021, https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163_98173---,00.html.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics: Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),” Table 3: Comorbidities and other conditions, CDC.gov, data as of November 28, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “COVID-19 Vaccine Related Codes,” CDC.gov, reviewed November 19, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/COVID-19-related-codes.html.

Food and Drug Administration, “Comirnaty and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine,” FDA.gov, updated November 23, 2021, accessed and archived December 7, 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20211207203600/https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/comirnaty-and-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine.

Food and Drug Administration, “Vaccine Information Fact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers about the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to Prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) for Use in Individuals 5 Through 11 Years of Age,” FDA.gov, Revised October 29, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021, https://www.fda.gov/media/153717/download.

Food and Drug Administration, “Vaccine Information Fact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers about the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to Prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) for Use in Individuals 5 Through 11 Years of Age,” FDA.gov, Revised June 25, 2021, archived August 1, 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20210801001409/https://www.fda.gov/media/144414/download.

Department of Health and Human Services, “Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19,” Federal Register, March 17, 2020, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/17/2020-05484/declaration-under-the-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-act-for-medical-countermeasures.

Emmanuel B. Walter et al., “Evaluation of the BNT162b2 Covid-19 Vaccine in Children 5 to 11 Years of Age,” New England Journal of Medicine, November 9, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2116298.

Food and Drug Administration, “Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine (Vaccination Providers): Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to Prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) for 5 through 11 Years of Age,” FDA.gov, revised October 29, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021, https://www.fda.gov/media/153714/download.

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Jeremy R. Hammond, “The Superiority of Natural Immunity to SARS-CoV-2,” JeremyRHammond.com, updated November 5, 2021, https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/natural-immunity-to-sars-cov-2/.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Children Aged 5-11 Years,” presented to the FDA Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRPAC) meeting on October 26, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021, https://www.fda.gov/media/153508/download.

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