Children, COVID Vaccines and “Informed Parental Consent”: An Open Letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford
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As a retired doctor, parent and grandparent, I have grave concerns over the mandating of vaccinations, isolation strategies and unnecessary masking currently being imposed and authorized by the Ontario government on children.
It makes no sense to force these measures on children, especially not the mRNA vaccines against covid. These injections do not stop the transmission of the virus or its new variants, yet you are rolling out “vaccination mandates” without sober second thought regarding potential harms.
Your own Government of Ontario website confirms the fact that children are the demographic least likely to contract, transmit, or die from this illness.
According to the Public Health Ontario Website, Enhanced Epidemiological Summary, (from Jan 15, 2020, to June 30, 2021)[1]
- “The proportion of severe outcomes, including hospitalizations, ICU admission, deaths and complications are much lower among cases in children compared to adults.”
- “Two deaths have been reported in children compared to 9,255 deaths reported among adults”
If, in fact, they do get covid, children and young adults have mild symptoms, rarely require hospitalization, recover quickly, and the result is natural immunity. Indeed, the fact of natural immunity is one that public health authorities have ignored, creating a catastrophic distrust of public health, government – and even our entire healthcare system.
Severe adverse reactions from the Covid vaccine injections, even deaths, are occurring in children and young adults, especially boys and young men. According to the CDC Website: [2] “Since April 2021, increased cases of myocartitis and pericarditis have been reported in the United States after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna), particularly in adolescents and young adults.” Up to Aug. 28, 2021, Ontario has had 331 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis after receipt of an mRNA vaccine.
A report prepared by Dr. Byram W. Bridle, PhD Associate Professor of Viral Immunology at the University of Guelph, concluded:
“It is not appropriate to use an ‘experimental’ vaccine in a population group unless the benefit of vaccination exceeds the risk of vaccination in that population group. With risk of severe COVID-19 in children, adolescents, and young adults of child-bearing age already so low, the benefit of vaccinating these population groups with a vaccine for which neither the long-term safety nor efficacy is known cannot be concluded to exceed the risk.”
What is more, since the rollout of these injections, natural immunity is not being acknowledged. Expert consensus agrees that natural immunity outweighs medical intervention. Dr. Michael Yeadon[3], a former Pfizer vice president, states:
“Some are advocating the vaccination of people who have recovered from COVID-19. Natural immunization being the ultimate form of vaccination, we see absolutely no scientific nor medical justification for such a procedure.”[4]
Are our government and public health officials knowingly inflicting emotional and bodily harm on children and families? I hope the policies you are implementing are created out of ignorance and not malice. Your mandates violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Moreover, it is incomprehensible to me that your government would unilaterally override the rights of parents to know what is best for their children. Parents are worried about your threats to interfere with their right to make medical decisions for their own children.
The Ontario government and public health authorities have legal obligations regarding informed consent regarding all medical interventions. Never before have children and young students been pushed into taking a potentially harmful medication with no long-term safety data for purpose of protecting other people. In medicine such a practice has always been unethical, as is coercion to submit to any treatment.
These are important matters to which you have not given enough thought – the consequences may well be grave.
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John Cunnington, MD, Retired Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
Notes
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/myocarditis.html
[3] (DR MICHAEL YEADON – Scientific Advisory Board member, PANDA. Expert in Allergy & Respiratory (A&R) Therapeutic; PhD in Biochemistry and Toxicology; Former Chief Scientific Officer at Pfizer A&R unit. CEO, & Founder of Ziarco; 25 years’ experience in Drug Discovery; 40 Full Papers; 63 Abstracts; 2 Books; 6 Patents)
[4] https://www..org/how-broad-is-covid- pandata immunity/
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