CDC data: Covid-vaccinated kids more likely to be hospitalized for respiratory illness

The following is a news analysis.

In today’s perverted information and medical environment, you can count on at least one thing: any data that shows concerns with Covid vaccination, or any vaccination, is likely to somehow be twisted into a recommendation that more people get vaccinated.

When reading studies promoted by CDC and other traditional medical sources, it’s important to get past the analysis and calculus chosen by the agency/doctors trying to promote vaccines at any cost. Looking at the actual data and crunching the numbers reveals often-ignored facts.

In a recent CDC study, not noted in the summaries or write-ups, the data shows:

The vast majority of kids in the US are unvaccinated for Covid, and the vast majority of hospital visits if kids for any reason were among unvaccinated. But the Covid-vaccinated kids were disproportionately more likely to get intensive care treatment (5.4% vaccinated, 4.5% unvaccinated), be admitted for in- patient treatment (55% of vaccinated, 44% unvaccinated), require supplemental oxygen (36% of vaccinated, 28% unvaccinated), stay in the hospital longer (3 days for vaccinated, 2 days unvaccinated), and die (.094% of vaccinated, .031% unvaccinated). The vaccinated kids taken to the hospital had been vaccinated for Covid the last time 2-3 months prior to hospital visit.

CDC concludes that its data proves Covid vaccines benefit children even though they have little to no risk of serious illness from Covid, even though the vaccines don’t prevent transmission or illness, and even though the vaccines carry serious risks both identified and as-yet unidentified.

CDC’s interpretation of the data, which highlights it in a way that is positive for vaccines, can be read at the link below.

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The following is from The Vaccine Reaction.

A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) found that more than half of the children treated at emergency departments (EDs) and hospitalized for respiratory illness between July 1, 2022 and Sept. 30, 2023 had been vaccinated for Covid-19, compared to less than half of unvaccinated children.

The study, which examined data from the New Vaccine Surveillance Network (NVSN) of children six months to four years of age treated at seven pediatric medical centers in the United States, looked at 6,377 children who had never received a dose of an mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) Covid shot (either Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty or Moderna/NIAID’s Spikevax), 776 children who had received at least two doses, and 281 children who had received one dose.

The  NVSN conducts population-based, prospective surveillance for acute respiratory illness (ARI) in children at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania; Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri; Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio; Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester, New York; Seattle Children’s Hospital in Washington; Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Of the vaccinated children in the study, 55 percent were hospitalized for a respiratory illness, while only 44 percent of the unvaccinated children were hospitalized.

Vaccinated Kids at Higher Risk for Inpatient Hospitalization

Commenting on the results of the study, Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, stated:

This means that upon visiting hospital emergency departments, compared to unvaccinated children, vaccinated children had increased risks of inpatient hospitalization, very statistically significantly so.

According to the study, children who were vaccinated for Covid were also more likely to have undergone intensive care, require supplemental oxygen and die. Despite this, the CDC study observed that receipt of two or more mRNA Covid shot doses was 40 percent “effective in preventing Covid-19–associated ED visits and hospitalization.”

Dr. Risch, however, noted:

No one cares whether the vaccines reduce Covid-associated hospitalization if at the same time they increase non-Covid-associated hospitalization.