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Federal Survey Of 21,990 Kids Ties COVID Shots To AUTISM, ADHD

A new analysis of the federal National Health Interview Survey finds children who received a COVID-19 shot had higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety, asthma and special-education use than children who did not. 

The authors, including epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher and cardiologist Peter McCullough, say the pattern survived a long list of statistical controls and rose with dose count. 

Their conclusion is blunt: COVID-19 vaccination of children should cease immediately.

The paper, posted October 5 on the Zenodo repository, pools the 2022–2024 Sample Child files. It covers 21,990 children aged 0–17 with a recorded COVID vaccination status, and 19,882 aged 2–17 for the autism, ADHD and learning-disability items. 

“Unvaccinated” in this comparison means no COVID-19 vaccine. It does not mean the child skipped the routine schedule.

Set against children who never received a COVID shot, COVID-vaccinated children had:

  • 32 percent higher odds of current autism
  • 26 percent higher odds of a lifetime autism diagnosis
  • 33 percent higher odds of ADHD
  • 23 percent higher odds of any neurodevelopmental diagnosis
  • 19 percent higher odds of special-education use
  • 24 percent higher odds of asthma
  • 27 percent higher odds of daily or weekly anxiety
  • 57 percent higher odds of mental-health medication
  • 60 percent higher odds of mental-health therapy

The steepest autism estimate landed where parents were told the product was a routine precaution. Among children aged 5 to 7, three or more COVID shots were linked to 154 percent higher odds of current autism. Ages 2 to 7 with three or more doses sat at 137 percent higher odds.

The odds also climbed with the number of shots. Against children who received none, current-autism odds were 3 percent higher after one dose, 25 percent higher after two, and 40 percent higher after three or more.

Hulscher told The Gateway Pundit the association “persisted across numerous adjustment strategies, strengthened with increasing dose count, and reached its largest estimate in some of the youngest multiply vaccinated children.” 

He added: “This is a safety signal that must not be ignored. Endangering the developing brain is a red line. COVID-19 ‘vaccination’ of children should cease immediately.”

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Desperate Cries for Help the CDC Ignored

A damning review of V-safe data by Brownstone Institute and REACT19 shows desperate cries for help, suicidal thoughts, and reports of death from thousands after being injured by a Covid-19 vaccine—all of which CDC ignored.

The following is a small sample of these pleas for help. If you are one of these people, please reach out to ICAN at info@icandecide.org.

1. TH4-17845-77781 05/14/21 “My wife (b)(6) is in a tremendous amount of pain from her first shot of Phizer. PLEASE help her. No one else is helping her. Put her in touch witb some expert in this vaccine area. Please i am begging you to help (b)(6)”
2. 8U5-27402-70028 04/13/21 “This is ridiculous. Nobody is reading this. She had a reaction within 20 minutes of vaccine and died. Have been reporting her death to you all since beginning of check in — Death”
3. N7P-10593-65876 04/29/21 “She died and clearly no one reads this. Clearly the CDC is just a joke? — She DIED!!!!!!!!”
4. YNF-19085-18961 04/24/21 “My hand numbness/tingling is continuing. No one has any answers except it should have gone away by now. I don’t have insurance and can’t afford a doctor. I NEED HELP!”
5. VP6-27753-73007 05/25/21 “Patient is deceased due to the complications of the Pfizer vaccine, is anyone even reading this as I already mentioned the passing away in the last one?? Kaiser said that they have lodged complaint to CDC, please follow up, thank you”
6. CNN-58498-17589 10/01/22 “Medical examiner declaring [name] dead — (b)(6) died soon after the vacine. I replied 3 times now. CDC is inefficient”
7. 4QG-33889-09489 04/28/21 “I have vertigo since March 18th after second Pfizer dose. I have asked for HELP here and no one responds. My doctor has no advise. Pfizer does not respond. HELP PLEASE!!!”
8. 5VS-90097-00645 01/15/21 “I have been deathly ill since I received the covid vaccine on 12/23. No one knows what happened to me and no one is helping me. I feel like I am going to die.”
9. 5HH-33715-67821 05/15/21 “Everything is the same as the very first one I completed just much worse. I can’t take much more of this. No one is helping and I’m ready to kill myself”
10. K4A-31774-82113 05/16/21 “I need help and I cannot get it — My mental health seems so bad as though I am not taking my meds i am suicidal”
11. QWJ-31177-09174 05/17/21 “I had a frightening allergic reaction. I was so incapacitated I couldnt reach my cellphone for help. Once I did, and tried to report my reaction, nobody seemed to care. I was afraid I was going to die.”
12. RR2-30038-54302 03/26/21 “I feel like Im going to die. I cant get out of be except to pee. And you guys dont care. Why dont you good afternoon lab rat how are you feeling todat”
13. KDR-22243-72993 01/13/21 “I continue to have peripheral neuropathy on my hands and feet, along with joint pain in my hands. I have received 2 calls from people reporting to be from VAERS and each time they say they will call me back, and no one does. This is very concerning”
14. NCN-22385-46012 01/18/21 “Again, heart palpitations and chest pain with squeezing tightness and tachycardia. Went to doctor today for it. Now have to wear heart monitor. Still have not heard from anyone regarding my symptoms. Again, is anyone reading this? This is concerning for me as I do not have a history of this an am an avid outdoors/ active person. monitor”
15. 7EJ-80298-92811 04/20/21 “Bells Palsy and no assistance from this siteIve even called in and no one returns calls. This is a waste of time. I am miserable and cant blink my eye. This vaccine has cause me a lot of issues and I wish someone would help me.”
16. 9T2-27109-51696 05/16/21 “Cant breathe cant sleep constant diarrhea constant headaches urinating in pain. But what do you care because nobody calls me up and asked me whats going on. Im living in a society where nobody gives a shit.”
17. B3A-39378-11603 05/18/21 “I think I have a blood clot and no one will help me! — Chest pain over my heart leg pain Abdamin pain left shoulder pain neck pain face pain up to eye forearm pain and numbness leg numbness from toes up to hip with pain level at a 10 clammy and elbow pain”
18. SBQ-48267-08351 05/18/21 “Please help. It started with the first vaccine. My mind is foggy. I cant think, I cant do what I need to do. Its been months and it wont go away. I feel like Im in a medicated haze and I feel like Im gone from my own body. Please he — Seeing a neurologist”
19. TLV-72107-82752 04/08/21 “Since I got my first dose I’ve had EBV and was subsequently diagnosed with CAEBV. I’m so tired and bedridden. I can’t get anyone to help me from the health dept, or moderna. my own doctor says he doesn’t have any info so Im trying (b)(6)”
20. UE7-20099-12127 04/13/21 “I’m continuing to lose my vision!!! The vaccine began attacking my eyes within minutes after the injection. Within days it began to attack other organs. Pfizer said they haven’t trained any doctors to help people with adverse side effects.I need help”
21. EFB-34394-29376 07/25/22 “Can’t remember-can’t feel legs from knees down, trouble breathing, can’t walk long (can’t walk to back of store) need caretaker/can’t live alone need HELP please call (b)(6) need you/cant afford medicine or food if these prices keep going up!”
22. SSJ-22140-08717 01/13/21 “Feeling electricity pulsing throughout my bady can’t walk. Inna wheelchair. Need help with mu Adls”
23. Q3M-20490-56119 04/20/21 “Massive lower back pain. I can’t leave bed and if I do, need help. I can’t walk by myself”
24. FD3-11429-68175 05/22/21 “Body stiffness,cramping, I feel like Im paralyzed at times from waist down. I need someone to call me (b)(6) and advise me on where to go for help. Ive gone to my physician & ER and they say they cant help me!”
25. LHW-12596-84447 04/28/21 “My fave gets numb on left side all day,afternoon, and evenings. Im afraid of having anotherstroke, anxious about hurting or killing a student whole driving my school bus, and more that you all don’t care about as you are doing nothing to help me as.”
26. ZWL-10153-73969 05/16/21 “I am not sure if anyone reads this. You keep wanting to know how I feel? I keep telling you that I am dizzy after getting my shot but do you really care? Not once has anyone reached out to me with any advice or help. So my symptoms are still the same”
27. SSJ-17957-30619 04/17/21 “Severe dizzyness. Checking in now on my forth week with dizzyness. Is anyone reading my posts? Would appreciate some help or advice. — Mri of brain and bloodwork”
28. 5RL-83717-71050 05/19/21 “Left shoulder still pain 8/10 from first shot. Someone please help. No one has answers.”
29. K2T-27246-93955 01/17/21 “Ive had a severe headache since 1/12/21 no insurance no one would help me not even you”
30. Z4E-55161-40006 04/28/21 “Severe breast and lymph node pain and swelling. Can someone please tell me if this is normal? Why am I taking the time to fill this out if no one will help me?”
31. NNU-57946-51050 05/21/21 “My entire left leg and foot are huge. I’m so swollen in just left leg. No one will help me. — Dr office”
32. JAY-45842-49882 04/10/21 “Ringing in the ears has gotten worse and I need some help. Its constant and extremely bothersome and no one has been able to help.”
33. CSA-15636-44924 04/19/21 “Bruising under the rash, rash on my legs, itching in my shoulders and neck. And I cant get anyone on the line to help me. I need help”
34. JFY-64443-76361 05/16/21 “Im itching again and it makes me miserable. Can someone call me. Ive given u my number and no one calls. If someone doesnt, then quit sending me these texts. (b)(6)”
35. X32-32274-36534 03/27/21 “Still have throat and ear trouble and taking medicine. Have had this since the first shot. Does anyone read this ???!!!”
36. UAZ-61061-88619 04/21/21 “More eye issues…why report when nobody reads these and follows up? Oh never mind…the vaccine negativity cannot be shown to anyone”
37. Q7J-17375-77056 04/22/21 “Flu like symptoms with fever haven’t stopped why don’t you help me please I can’t take it?”

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Taxpayer-Funded Cat Pipeline Exposes Animal Dealer That Supplied Animals for COVID and Virus Experiments at Cornell and Colorado State

A little-known lab animal dealer has been quietly feeding cats into taxpayer-funded virus experiments at major universities, according to records obtained by the watchdog White Coat Waste Project.

White Coat Waste’s latest investigation identifies Clinvet as a Class B dealer and research facility with ties to Marshall BioResources, one of the country’s largest commercial breeders of dogs and cats for laboratories.

Shipping and donation records show Clinvet has supplied cats that ended up in COVID and feline immunodeficiency virus studies paid for by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

At Cornell University, Clinvet donated cats for experiments in which researchers infected healthy animals with COVID, isolated them, and monitored them as they became sick.

Some cats used as controls were killed without ever being infected.

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Florida Attorney General files lawsuit against Pfizer for deceptive practices relating to its covid “vaccine”

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a lawsuit against Pfizer and CEO Albert Bourla, accusing the company of deceptive practices involving the marketing and safety claims surrounding its mRNA covid-19 vaccine.

Uthmeier said Pfizer presented mass vaccination as necessary to stop the spread of covid-19 while assuring the public that there were no significant safety concerns.  “Pfizer told Florida families that mass vaccination with their mRNA covid vaccine was necessary to stop the spread, and that there were no material safety risks,” Uthmeier said.

He specifically pointed to comments from Bourla that, according to Uthmeier, pressured people to take the vaccine by suggesting they would otherwise endanger those closest to them.  “CEO Albert Bourla said, ‘If you didn’t take it, you were putting the people you love the most at risk. He called people who asked questions criminals,” Uthmeier said.

The attorney general also criticised Pfizer’s public statements about potential safety concerns following the widespread distribution of the vaccine. “In January 2023, after billions of doses, he said Pfizer had not seen a single safety signal,” Uthmeier said.

Uthmeier argued that Pfizer had enormous financial incentives surrounding the vaccine and spent heavily on advertising while generating tens of billions of dollars from sales.  “They spent 10 billion dollars on advertising. They brought in more than 80 billion from the vaccine alone,” Uthmeier said.

At the centre of Florida’s allegations is Uthmeier’s claim that the company failed to adequately disclose information about potential risks.  “What they didn’t say was that they knew about myocarditis in teenagers and young adults,” Uthmeier said.

He further claimed that Pfizer had received thousands of reports involving adverse events.  “They had reports of 1,000s of adverse events, including stroke and death, and they had reason to know the shot posed risks to pregnant women and unborn babies in the first trimester,” Uthmeier said.

Uthmeier also referenced information he said was recently revealed by Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson involving Dr. Anthony Fauci and concerns about pregnancy.  “Recently, Senators Paul and Johnson revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci texted that the second dose theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester,” Uthmeier said.

According to Uthmeier, other federal health officials were aware of the discussion while pregnant women continued to be told that vaccination was safe.  “The CDC director and the Surgeon General agreed, but pregnant women, nevertheless, were told it was safe,” Uthmeier said.

The Florida attorney general also alleged that Pfizer had not established whether the vaccine prevented transmission before making claims about the broader public-health benefits of vaccination.  “Pfizer hadn’t even tested whether the vaccine stopped transmission,” Uthmeier said.

He said those allegations form the basis of the state’s lawsuit against Pfizer and Borla.  “That’s why we filed a lawsuit today against Pfizer and Albert Borla for their deceptive practices; what they did was wrong,” Uthmeier said.

Uthmeier framed the legal action as an effort to challenge what he described as a failure to provide Florida families with complete information about the vaccine.  “They assumed Florida families could not be trusted with the truth. Well, we disagree,” Uthmeier said.

He concluded by promising that his office would pursue accountability through the lawsuit.  “My office will hold them accountable. Thank you.”

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The Disastrous Disability Signal In The UK That Corroborates The US Data!

The Disability Signal Across the Atlantic

On August 11 I wrote US Disabilities Hit an All-Time High of 37 Million In July: UP 23% Since Feb 2021. The BLS Current Population Survey printed 37,029,000 Americans 16 and over reporting a disability. That is seven million more people since February 2021, a 3-to-4 sigma break from the pre-2020 plateau that has not mean-reverted. The inflection is February 2021 with the Covid vaccine rollout not in 2020 when Covid was at its most virulent strain. Alternative explanations fail the timing and the magnitude test. The UK PIP system corroborates that US survey signal with something the American series cannot give you: medically assessed new claims broken down by body system and underlying cause.

If you want to know whether that US survey signal is real, stop arguing about survey design and look at an administrative system that actually diagnoses people.

Go back to the UK Disabilities (PIP) Project we published at Phinance Technologies. The page is still up…use it. It was built so researchers, doctors, and ordinary citizens could see the same thing we saw in 2023. You can look at total body system new claims or by underlying cause new claims (best viewed on desktop) within a body system. You can pick absolute new claims, excess new claims, percent excess new claims and excess new claims z score. We also break it out by monthly and yearly data. Finally you can sort it by age group as well. Play with data and be horrified like we were in 2023. Interactive charts…all done by Phinance Technologies for free.

PIP is not the protagonist from Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations. It is the UK’s main working-age disability benefit officially known as the Personal Independence Pension program by the UK Department of Work. Claims are medically assessed. Decisions, “clearances,” as noted above are coded by body system and then by underlying cause. The positive award rate has been stable at around 40 percent, so you are not looking at a sudden collapse in standards. You are looking at more people presenting with more illness…new claims, not just the stock of existing claimants, sorted monthly or yearly and by age band versus a 2016–2019 trend.

That is the advantage over the US survey. The BLS series tells you that disability exploded after early 2021 with the vaccine rollout and not in 2020 with the virus. PIP tells you where in the body it exploded, and it lets you watch the timing against the vaccine rollout curve on the same chart.

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Health Canada won’t answer contaminated COVID-19 vaccine questions

This month Ottawa tabled a stack of Order Paper Questions on COVID vaccines: Pfizer payments, residual DNA contamination known as Plasmidgate, approvals, VAERS death reports, and the science (or lack thereof) behind lockdowns.

As then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sold vaccination as a civic duty and implemented sweeping vaccine mandates, families who were never given proper informed consent recently brought their injuries to Ottawa.

“It really affects the whole family when one person’s injured,” said Carrie Sakamoto, a severely vaccine injured Canadian. She told me at the Allison Inquiry at the beginning of September that “it just devastates everybody.”

Veterans, former elite athletes and parents of children who died testified, and Health Canada stayed silent throughout. Then, a week later, the Public Health Agency of Canada posted a portal update and a backlog number. There was no apology.

As OPQ responses begin rolling in, one is from the MP who spearheaded the inquiry, Dean Allison himself. He asked Health Canada what science proves SV40 promoter fragments in Pfizer’s vaccine are inactive, and when officials first noticed the 2021-22 spike in U.S. VAERS death reports.

The department responded not with a study, but the blanket reassurance that the fragment is inactive, has no functional role and sits below limits. For context: SV40 sequences are used in molecular biology to drive gene expression. They can interact with host DNA, but it all begs the question that if the material is inert and irrelevant, why is it there?

Internal Health Canada emails from July 2023 show officials still asking Pfizer for characterization details while authorizing additional boosters – shots that were still contaminated.

Pfizer had not disclosed the sequence to Health Canada, the FDA or the EMA at the time of submissions, and it was only after genomics expert Kevin McKernan and I made the finding public in April, agencies compared notes.

“At Health Canada, we do not view this as an urgent risk topic,” one email said, as fall booster campaigns loomed. If regulators had already concluded the fragment was harmless and below limit, why were they still seeking basic measurement information from Pifzer?

The same pattern appears in questions on residual DNA bound to lipid nanoparticles, the tiny fat bubbles that carry the modified RNA of the vaccine into cells.

Officials once again offered broad safety assurances while leaving levels, fragment size, batch variability and manufacturing controls unanswered. On deaths, they said vital statistics showed no increase linked to mRNA vaccines, cited VAERS when convenient, then treated the same database as a scare tactic.

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UNBELIEVABLE: Fox News Hires Disgraced Cuomo Aide Who Covered Up COVID Nursing Home Deaths to Co-Host New Podcast

Fox News just handed a contributor contract and a co-host chair on a brand-new podcast to the woman who sat at Andrew Cuomo’s right hand while New York shoved COVID-positive patients into nursing homes and then hid the body count.

According to a Fox News Media press release, Melissa DeRosa is now a “newly named FOX News contributor.” She will appear on the premiere of the network’s new all-female roundtable podcast, the Girls, which debuts October 1.

The first episode features Rachel Campos-Duffy, Harris Faulkner, Kat Timpf, former ESPN host Samantha Ponder, and DeRosa.

Fox’s own announcement describes her as a “veteran democratic strategist” who “previously held several senior roles in former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration, becoming the first woman to serve as secretary to the governor.” That is a very polite way of saying she was Cuomo’s gatekeeper during the deadliest nursing-home policy in America.

In February 2021, The Gateway Pundit reported the leak that blew the cover off the operation. In a piece titled “BOMBSHELL: Top NY Official Admits Cuomo Hid Nursing Home Data So Feds Wouldn’t Find Out,” we detailed DeRosa’s remarks on a private conference call with New York Democratic lawmakers.

According to the New York Post, which first published the audio, DeRosa apologized to those Democrats for withholding the state’s nursing-home death tally. She said the administration “froze” after then-President Donald Trump “turns this into a giant political football.”

Her words, as reported by the Post:

“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes. He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”

Then came the part that should have ended her media career:

“And basically, we froze. Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.”

That is not a “reporting lag.” That is a senior state official admitting, on tape, that the Cuomo shop sat on the death numbers because they were afraid the Trump Justice Department would use the truth against them.

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COVID mRNA Vaccine Hides Up to 30% of Endotoxin Activity in FDA Test

All FDA-approved and emergency-use-authorized mRNA vaccines use E. coli to produce so-called starting DNA or other manufacturing materials, creating a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxin contamination risk that manufacturers test for in the finished shots.

Endotoxin has been shown to drive cardiac injury and abnormal clotting in experimental studies, and other outcomes that overlap with myocarditis, blood clots, and other serious events reported after Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, raising the question of whether endotoxin was adequately excluded as a contributor.

No publicly available information tells us specifically how much endotoxin is present in finished mRNA vaccine vials.

In a January 2022 memo, the FDA reported adding a known amount of endotoxin to three samples of Moderna’s finished COVID vaccine to check whether its test could detect it.

Its test only recovered 80%, 71%, and 70% of the added activity.

Meaning 20%, 29%, and 30% of the control signal went undetected while the added endotoxin was present in the samples.

The endotoxin was still there.

FDA knew how much it had added.

Yet something in the vaccine samples prevented the test from detecting up to 30% of its activity.

FDA nevertheless accepted all three results, raising questions:

  • If the test missed up to 30% of a control added after manufacture, what could it miss when endotoxin enters the vaccine’s lipid particles during manufacture?
  • Why did FDA call the measured loss only “slight inhibition”?
  • And why did the agency allow a complete finished-product release test to wait until after its Spikevax approval decision?
  • Why have regulators and manufacturers not told us exactly how much LPS endotoxin is present in finished mRNA vaccine vials?
  • Why do post-mRNA vaccination adverse events track endotoxin exposure symptoms?

Australian regulator TGA did test Pfizer’s mRNA COVID vaccine batches as “less than 5 EU/mL.”

But that means the assay couldn’t see endotoxin above a prespecified cutoff, and only after it was diluted.

It is not a count of how much total endotoxin is in each vial.

Moreover, studies examined below found that liposomes and other lipid preparations can hide over 90% of incorporated endotoxin from detection, raising the question of what happens in the lipid nanoparticles used in mRNA vaccines.

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COVID Hospital Protocols: ‘This Kind of Cruelty Will Not Be Repeated’

During Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-Wis.) roundtable on COVID-19 hospital care today, Brad Seiler described the desperate effort to get his wife, Gail, out of a hospital after staff told him she was “unsavable.”

When Brad finally got her discharged, he said hospital staff wouldn’t let them leave through the main entrance. Instead, Gail was taken down a freight elevator used to transport bodies to the morgue and escorted out through doors used by funeral homes.

A nurse told him, “She’ll be dead tonight, or before you even get home.” Gail survived.

“Today, Gail is alive, healthy, active, and enjoying life with our grandchildren and children,” Seiler said.

Seiler was one of 21 patients, family members, doctors and nurses who testified at the “COVID-19 Hospital Protocols: Real Stories from Real People” roundtable. Johnson said that as of Sept. 26, his office had received 583 testimonies from people in 46 states.

“Today I am providing a platform for these stories to be told so that this kind of cruelty will not be repeated,” Johnson said.

‘It is our responsibility to make sure this never happens again’

Stephanie Williamson of New Jersey described losing her husband, Dave, after what she said was a series of decisions made without informed consent or family input.

“My children never saw their father again. Dave’s dad never saw his son,” Williamson said.

She said she was pressured into consenting to her husband’s intubation.

“The night my husband was intubated, I realized I was coerced into consenting to put him on a ventilator,” she said.

Williamson said she had waited four and a half years to tell her husband’s story.

“This is about humanity,” she said. “Patient care should not be driven by reimbursements. A doctor’s hands should never be tied, and no patient should ever be left alone. It is our responsibility to make sure this never happens again.”

Florida registered nurse Donna Lowery said she was fired after 31 years on the job because she advocated for a hospitalized patient and recommended ivermectin. Lowery said once the drug was stopped, the patient deteriorated quickly, was placed on a ventilator and died.

“For me, there was a patient. There was a family in need of help, and there was a choice,” Lowery said. “I chose to help. I paid for that decision, but I would make it again.”

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In Shadow of Pending Lawsuit, CDC Again Recommends COVID Vaccines for Infants and Young Kids

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly reinstated its July 2025 COVID-19 vaccination recommendations, including recommending the vaccine for “off-label” use among infants and children, Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., reported.

According to the CDC’s updated webpage, the agency now recommends the COVID-19 shot for all adults ages 18 and older and for children ages 6 months to 17 years who are moderately to severely immunocompromised.

For children not at high risk — including males ages 12-24, who have the highest risk for vaccine-associated myocarditis — the CDC recommends the vaccine based on shared clinical decision-making.

The updated recommendations conflict with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals for the vaccines.

There are currently no FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and adults younger than 64. For those younger than 65, the vaccines are only FDA-approved for those at high risk of COVID-19 illness, at various ages depending on the vaccine.

The CDC acknowledges that use of the vaccine in that age group would be an “off-label” use.

Latest changes may be tied to court order in ongoing lawsuit

In May 2025, the U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the CDC would no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children 6 months and older and healthy pregnant women.

In September 2025, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) made the changes official when members voted that for people ages 6 months to 64 years, COVID-19 vaccination should be based on “individual-based decision-making.”

However, a court-ordered stay in March 2026 froze those recommendations. To comply with that order, the CDC is now reverting to its early 2025 recommendations.

The court-ordered stay, issued by U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, stemmed from an ongoing lawsuit filed in July 2025 by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and several other medical groups.

The groups sued Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over changes to COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant women. They amended their lawsuit several times in response to new HHS and CDC policies and recommendations.

The U.S. Department of Justice is appealing Murphy’s ruling on behalf of Kennedy and HHS. Oral arguments are scheduled for Oct. 6 before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.

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