COVID-19 vaccine has been included in the Vaccines for Children Program

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Nouf Albarakati, left, of Narberth Pa., comforts her son Manaf Albarakati, 14, before he receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from registered nurse Alicia Jimenez at a Montgomery County, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) announced on Friday that they are “aware of yesterday’s vote by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) that the COVID-19 vaccine be part of the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program.”

The ACIP panel unanimously has advised that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) make COVID-19 among the routine vaccinations for both adults and for children as young as six months.

ADPH emphasized in their statement that the ACIP’s vote to include COVID-19 in VFC is not a mandate for children to take the vaccine.

The vote to include the COVID-19 vaccine in the VFC program is the mechanism to ensure that, when the COVID-19 vaccine is no longer provided free by the federal government, uninsured and underinsured children can have access to the vaccine without charge.

The VFC is a federally funded program that provides vaccines at no cost to children who might not otherwise be vaccinated due to their inability to pay. The CDC buys vaccines at a discounted rate for distribution to registered VFC providers.  Many physicians in Alabama are VFC providers so that their patients can receive recommended vaccines.  Children who are eligible for VFC vaccines are entitled to receive the same ACIP-recommended vaccines as any other child.

To attend a public school in Alabama, a child should have a Certificate of Immunization. The vaccines that are required for K-12 in Alabama are diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox). Children attending preschool are also required to have Haemophilis influenza type B (Hib) and pneumococcal vaccines. ADPH allows medical exemptions and religious exemptions in accordance with the Rules below. ADPH does not have vaccine requirements for college-age or other groups.

Not everyone agrees with the inclusion of the vaccine in the VFC. Dr. David Calderwood M.D. with Concerned Doctors of Alabama expressed his opposition to the mass vaccinations of America’s children for the COVID-19 vaccine in a statement.

“It is well established that the COVID vaccines do not prevent the infection or the spread of the infection,” Dr. Calderwood said. “They only decrease the death rate from the infection for a period of months then this benefit disappears. Since the vaccine’s only benefit is a temporary reduction in mortality and a healthy child has essentially a 0 chance of dying from COVID, the vaccines cannot benefit them. We do know on the other hand that the vaccines can cause harm.”

Messenger RNA–or mRNA–exists in all the cells in the human body. It is an essential component of all living organisms and has been in cells for billions of years. Messenger RNA directs the body to make proteins. To protect the mRNA and help deliver it into cells, the mRNA is wrapped by medical researchers with lipids, or fats. mRNA vaccines are given as an injection. Once the vaccine is delivered, the body takes over and makes the protein according to the mRNA’s instructions. Moderna claims that the mRNA doesn’t stay in the body very long once its job is done. And it does not cause permanent changes or alter DNA. Moderna claims that the COVID-19 vaccine is just the beginning and mRNA technology could “revolutionize medicine.”

Dr. Calderwood remains skeptical.

“We know that the mRNA vaccines can cause damage to the lining of blood vessels, markedly increase blood clots, increase cardiac risk score, suppresses the innate immune system, and can cause small fiber neuropathy, myocarditis, autoimmune hepatitis, and thrombotic thrombocytopenia among other things,” Calderwood said. “The nanoparticles in these vaccines are deposited in high concentrations in the testis and ovaries with unknown effects on the reproductive potential of children. In addition, more than 30,000 deaths and almost 60,000 permanent disabilities have occurred after the COVID vaccines. This represents more deaths or permanent disabilities after these vaccines than all the other vaccines combined over the last 30 years. If parents truly understood all the data that we now know about these vaccines they would never allow their children to be vaccinated with COVID vaccines.”

The Concerned Doctors believe that the long-term effects of the COVID-19 vaccine is being ignored and that more research is needed before making this recommended.

“The decision by the FDA to place the COVID vaccine on the children’s vaccination schedule is irrefutable evidence that the FDA is a captured agency doing the bidding of the pharmaceutical industry,” Calderwood said. “There is no scientific evidence that this vaccine would benefit children. To the contrary, the Covid vaccine can only harm children. The recent statement from ADPH in support of these vaccines represents a complete lack of review of the huge body of science which now includes over 1000 articles and studies in peer review journals that delineate the harms of this vaccine. The ADPH is willing to follow the captured federal agencies without questioning or doing their own research.”

Public schools presently do not require that children receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

“If these vaccines are made a requirement for public schools we are putting our children’s health in jeopardy for no benefit to them or society,” Calderwood said. “Every parent should vehemently oppose these COVID vaccines for children.”

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