We have seen that the NEA's New Business Item 37 calls for "mandatory masking and COVID vaccines in schools," both of which have been a source of controversy for two years. In late June, just prior to the start of the Representative Assembly (RA), Biden Administration officials called for teachers of America's youngest children to urge their parents to have them vaccinated against COVID-19.

Newsmax reported on June 29 that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra co-signed a letter to early childhood teachers and staff which read in part: "As trusted messengers, staff of ECE programs and schools play a vital role in spreading the good news that COVID-19 vaccination is available for our youngest children. You are essential in encouraging parents and guardians to learn about and access vaccines for all children six (6) months of age and older, which will be available free at no cost. [sic]"

Included in the letter were exhortations for teachers to "encourage parents to connect with healthcare providers, share information about COVID-19 vaccines with parents with eligible children," and "partner with local healthcare providers to host vaccination clinics at their facilities or neighborhoods." HHS announced there are "ample funds" available for the jabs through its We Can Do This campaign using the American Rescue Plan Act's Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund.

Some parents and doctors refuse the 'good news'

Not all parents and physicians regard the announcement that young children are now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines as "good news." Newsmax noted that in February, the CDC's own estimate was that "75 percent of unvaccinated children and teenagers in America had already acquired antibodies" to repel or diminish the effects of the virus. Nonetheless, the FDA approved the Pfizer and/or Moderna vaccines for very young children with the CDC's blessing.

As Dr. Peter McCullough, chief medical adviser to the Truth For Health Foundation told Newmax: "I think it was a mistake for the FDA to approve it, and clearly the CDC recommendation probably won't be followed by a lot of parents. Children have a very mild syndrome," he added. "It's not like with our senior citizens, who are at risk. The coronavirus is easily managed by children."

Dr. Pierre Kory, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Specialist, President and Chief Medical Officer of the Front-Line Critical Care Alliance, tweeted on June 18: "They're fast rolling out 10 million vaccines for U.S. toddlers. There is NO science to support this. None. Parents, protect your babies from this pharma campaign. I am begging you. I don't want more patients, I'm drowning in the care of vax-injured as it is."

U.K. Diagnostic Pathologist, Dr. Clare Craig, described by health activist and osteopathic physician Dr. Joseph Mercola as a "lover of data," summarized how "Pfizer twisted its clinical data for young children" to justify its approval of the vaccine for that age group. Craig contends that "the perspective of a pathologist is critical to understanding the problems with data collection." Her analysis shows that of 4,526 children ages six months to four years who participated in Pfizer's trial, 3,000 did not make it to the end of the trial. This typically indicates that the side effects were too severe for the participants to continue. She explained that "we don't know why two-thirds of the participants were eliminated, and on that basis alone, this trial should be deemed null and void."

Robert Kennedy's Children's Health Defense news website, The Defender, reported on a recent op-ed by Dr. Marty Makary that appeared in Newsweek. Makary is an author and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His op-ed criticized the government's decision to "move ahead with vaccinations for children despite 'no outcomes data' in this age group."

Makary wrote: "People don't trust the CDC," citing the agency's decision to recommend COVID-19 booster shots for children ages 5-11, despite a Pfizer spokesperson admitting that its own study of 140 children did not determine the efficacy of the booster in 5- to 11-year-olds.

"That didn't matter to the CDC," Makary noted, adding: "Seemingly hoping for a different answer, the agency put the matter before its own kangaroo court of curated experts, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). I listened to the meeting, and couldn't believe what I heard. At times, the committee members sounded like a group of marketing executives."

Politicians and celebrities push back

Dr. McCullough and his fellow physicians are not the only ones finding fault with the FDA's decision to vax infants and toddlers. Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson, along with two other Republican Senators and 18 members of Congress, demanded answers in a letter to the FDA regarding its approval of the vaccines for infants and young children.

Among the questions asked by the bicameral group:

• If approved and widely used among children ages five and under how many lives does the FDA estimate will be saved in this age group over the next year? Given the injuries reported in the FDA's own VAERS system, how will the FDA evaluate potential tradeoffs of serious vaccine injuries versus serious COVID outcomes?
• How many healthy children ages five and under without pre-existing medical conditions have died or been hospitalized from COVID or its variants?

In reference to the letter, Cruz said: "We are in our third year with COVID-19, and we know vastly more about the virus now than we did in 2020. One of the most important things we know is that this virus poses minimal risk for children. Before the FDA approves an Emergency Use Authorization for a children's vaccine, parents should be able to see the data and paperwork they would use to justify this decision."

Cruz later caused a stir when he criticized PBS and HBO for using the Sesame Street character Elmo to push for vaccinating children five years and under, without providing scientific evidence that the vaccines are either needed or that they will be effective and safe. "You have Elmo aggressively advocate for vaccinating children under five, but you cite ZERO scientific evidence of this," Cruz tweeted in a tweet that can no longer be found on Twitter.

Celebrity comedian Russell Brand also had an issue with using the beloved children's character to push coronavirus vaccines. "Just because there's a cuddly puppet involved with Band-Aids on it doesn't make me feel any more assured," Brand said. He continued: "When it starts getting into complex territory that involves the power of the state, the influence of pharmaceutical companies, the impact of coronavirus on young children — these are not issues I want resolved by members of Elmo's family."

Brand then asked: "Have they become so desperate to indoctrinate that they're willing to infiltrate the world of puppets in order to convey messages about a decision that, I think, is as yet not totally underwritten with scientific data?"

What's it really about?

With many parents, physicians, politicians, and concerned citizens wondering why the FDA voted unanimously to give three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to the youngest Americans when there is no compelling reason to do so, Robert Kennedy Jr. offers an explanation.

Products must satisfy four criteria in order to get an EUA (Emergency Use Authorization):

1. There must be an emergency
2. A vaccine must be at least 30 to 50 percent effective
3. The known and potential benefits of the product must outweigh the known and potential risks of the produc
4. There can be no adequate, approved, and available alternative treatments (drugs or vaccines)

"Unless all four criteria are met, an EUA cannot be granted or maintained, yet here we are. COVID, by any reasonable measurement, is no longer an emergency, there are plenty of adequate alternative treatments, and the potential benefits in no way, shape, or form outweigh the potential risks — especially not in infants and children under five. That's three out of four criteria that, clearly, are not met."

He continues: "The short answer to the question, 'Why are the CDC and FDA acting so irrationally?' is that both agencies are corrupt to the core and are no longer in the business of protecting public health. They are securing profits for the drug industry, and getting EUA for infants and young children is a crucial step toward securing permanent legal indemnity for the drug makers."

Multiple voices have suggested that the goal is to get the COVID-19 vaccine into the mandatory shot record for infants and children. As Kennedy explains: "They need this last remaining age group to be included under the EUA, because once the emergency is finally declared 'over,' the next phase of liability shielding requires that the shots receive approval by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Once the vaccine is on the childhood vaccination schedule, the vaccine makers are permanently shielded from liability for injuries and deaths that occur in any age group, including adults."

Like dutiful lapdogs, the Biden Administration, the NEA, and various others continue to demand that parents vaccinate their children, including babies and toddlers. Let's hope many consider the risks long and hard before giving in to such a questionable demand.

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