Jan 27, 2022
- Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist, and Dr. Paul Offit, of the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee, stood against booster jabs for teen boys
- The CDC had recommended COVID boosters for everyone 12 and up despite vaccinated teen boys only having a 0.3 out of 100,000 chance of hospitalization
- Teen boys, however, had a 10 out of 100,000 chance of getting myocarditis, a rare heart inflammation, due to the boosters
- The two doctors told journalist David Zweig in a piece published by Bari Weiss’s Substack, Common Sense, that they would not give their sons booster shots
- From May 12 to December 19, 2021, the CDC reported 265 cases of myocarditis among children ages 12 to 15, where all but 10 were discharged from the hospital
- The remaining 10 were listed in improved condition or resolved symptoms
- Within that same timeframe, the CDC recorded 13 cases of myocarditis among people ages 16 to 24, with only four hospitalizations were all four recovered
- Despite the rarity of myocarditis, health experts claimed the CDC was too premature in making its recommendation and did so without safety data