California Health and Human Services Leaders Issue Statement on Updated Vaccine Eligibility for Children 6 Months and Older
Press release from the California Department of Public Health:
…California Health & Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly, and Director of the California Department of Public Health and State Public Health Officer Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, issued a joint statement on the emergency use authorization of the updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines in the United States for children as young as 6 months of age. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends updated bivalent vaccines for persons 6 months and older.
“Staying up to date on vaccinations is critical to maximizing our protection against COVID-19, which is on the rise in California, along with other respiratory viruses. Vaccines help reduce severe illness, and we’re encouraged that our youngest Californians are now eligible for this protection.
“Rates of emergency room visits and hospitalizations increased dramatically for infants and toddlers 6 months through 4 years as a result of Omicron variants, and our pediatric hospitals and clinics are under significant strain from multiple respiratory viruses including COVID-19, flu, and RSV. We can help protect our youngest children from severe respiratory illness caused by COVID-19 by getting them vaccinated now to give their bodies time before the holidays to boost their immunity. We strongly encourage parents to talk to their healthcare provider or go to their local clinic with any questions to ensure their children have received all recommended COVID-19 vaccines.”
Children 6 months through 5 years of age who have received two doses of the monovalent (primary series) Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines should get an updated dose at least 2 months after their second dose. For immunocompromised children, parents should consult with their child’s healthcare provider. For more information, use the CDC Booster Tool.
The state is prepared to begin offering the updated COVID-19 vaccine to all eligible children 6 months through 5 years as soon as next week. Find a vaccine near you at MyTurn.ca.gov or call 833-422-4255.
Join the discussion! For rules visit: https://kymkemp.com/commenting-rules
Comments system how-to: https://wpdiscuz.com/community/postid/10599/
Flu vaccines on their best days are a 50-50 proposition. This “bivalent” is another hard sell aided and abetted by big pharma. Do your research. Myself I would look to Dr.Paul Alexander report published about a week or so ago on substack for the best prophylactic measures for Coronavirus, Flu and RSV. DON’T BE A LAB RAT FOR BIG PHARMA. Besides these are all billed to both your tax dollars and insurances.
Last year, the flu vaccine was only 16% effective.
How effective it will be this year is anyone’s guess…
This year’s flu shot has a nearly 50% efficacy against hospitalization from the major strain of the flu, according to the CDC.
Which strain would that be…???
Did Walensky even mention that…???
And what strain did the vaccine target this year… ???
She didn’t mention that either, did she…???
This Year’s Flu Shot ‘Good Match’ For Current Strains, CDC Says
Another error.
‘Low Vaccine Effectiveness’
“As of January 22, results from the US Flu VE network do not show statistically significant evidence that the flu vaccine is effective. Currently, the vaccine is estimated to be 8% effective against preventing influenza A infection (95% CI, -31% to 36%) and 14% effective against preventing A/H3N2 infection (95% CI, -28% to 43%) for people aged 6 months and older.
“The network did not have enough data to provide age-specific VE estimates or estimates of effectiveness against influenza B. This could be due to low flu activity relative to prepandemic years, Flannery said. Of the 2758 individuals enrolled in the VE flu network this season, just 147 (5%) tested positive for the flu this season. This is the lowest positivity rate observed in the Flu VE network participants with respiratory illness over the past 10 flu seasons, Grohskopf noted. In comparison, estimates from the 2019 –2020 season included 4112 individuals, and 1060 tested positive for flu.”
grey fox,
The…
‘This year’s flu shot good match for current strains CDC says’
Goes to an error page.
It says it’s out sick…
Might want to delete it?
That’s why I mentioned it was an error.
(Just a heads up.)
Out sick were they? Should have got their flu shot.
This Year’s Flu Shot ‘Good Match’ For Current Strains, CDC Says.
By Chantelle Pattemore on December 9, 2022 — Fact checked by Dana K. Cassell
The flu shot is formulated months in advance based on research of potential strains.
The CDC has announced that this year’s vaccine seems to be a “very good match” to circulating strains.
Health Line~
Posting an intentionally bogus link for laughs…???🤡
I’m actually disappointed.
But not surprised.
Talk about intentionally misleading…
(It’s not the first time.)
The “link” link was extra special…
So much for credibility.
As if I didn’t know that out sick link was done intentionally.
Of course I did.
I already posted the proper link.
It’s definitely no contest.
Not a contest at all…
And the southern hemisphere flu shot is from Abbott INFLUVAC used in Chile.
It’s a trivalent.
Not the same as the vaccines used in the
U.S.
Katherine Wu, a PhD microbiologist, takes this line of argument even further in a recent article in The Atlantic. The article, titled “The Strongest Signal That Americans Should Worry About Flu This Winter”, reports that in Australia, the number of flu cases made this season “one of the country’s worst in several years.” Which, she argues, “does not bode terribly well for those of us up north” since “the same viruses that seed outbreaks in the south tend to be the ones that sprout epidemics here as the seasons do their annual flip.”
Forbes-
PS: I remember somebody that would post comment links to their own post as a joke.
Remember him?
The Atlantic is all politics, all the time.
What’s Chile got to do with it. There are 32 countries in the southern hemisphere.
Australia uses a Quadravalent same as US. The US uses 3 different flu vaccines.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7143a1.htm
Maybe this will help…
It’s from the CDC.
The 50% efficacy against hospitalizations claim certainly wasn’t from anything that happened in our hemisphere.
And it doesn’t even mention which vaccine it’s referencing, nor the fact that it didn’t even come from our hemisphere.
I figure that information is important to clarify.
Otherwise it’s misleading.
As an aside…
The flu vaccine VE against illness, (not hospitalizations), hasn’t been 50% or over, in the US, since 2013…
So, any claim that, “recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60%”, is total bullshit.
Averaged over the last five years reported, the VE has only been 36.2%
That’s it.
VE hasn’t even reached 40% since the 2016- season, and hasn’t reached 60% since the 2010- season.
Unless you consider the 2010- season “recent”, (I don’t), the repost does not stand up to scrutiny.
Recently, I would say, that the flu Vaccine VE has been only 40% or less.
CDC conducts studies each year to determine how well influenza (flu) vaccines protect against flu. While vaccine effectiveness (VE) can vary, recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well-matched to those used to make flu vaccines.
CDC-
Bottom line,,,,Flu shots save lives….Get your flu shot..
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies.htm
There are currently no CDC US flu vaccine VE estimates for the 2022-2023 season.
It’s not even possible until after the season concludes.
So, the “flu vaccine 50% VE against hospitalizations” claim, is speculative and premature, at best, as a matter of fact.
It’s not even data from this hemisphere.
Important to note.
“The US uses 3 different flu vaccines.”
-grey fox-
_____________________________________
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm
That’s funny, I count 5 injectables, and 1
intranasal.
That makes 6.
And Chile uses 1, a trivalent.
And Chile is at least one of the Southern Hemisphere places considered that the 50% VE against hospitalizations claim was generated.
@CDC
How Well Flu Vaccines Work…..
Flu vaccination has been shown in several studies to reduce severity of illness in people who get vaccinated but still get sick.
Flu vaccination can reduce the risk of flu-associated hospitalizations.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm
Get your flu shot….Care to argue with that?
Not vaccines. They’re experimental gene therapies. And as such, the Feds have give big pharma immunity from lawsuit for any damages or injuries suffered by victims.
Yet these poison shots are being pushed by the same leftists who have “My body, my choice” bumper stickers on their beat up cars.
I don’t wonder why this comment was deleted…
So what’s your point? and here we go with the personal shit again.
We were talking flu vaccines. Let’s keep it at that. Not really interested in throwing stones back and forth.
Stop playing games, grey fox.
Your comment’s misleading, and isn’t even true for the United States of America…
“This year’s flu shot has a nearly 50% efficacy against hospitalization from the major strain of the flu, according to the CDC.”
-grey fox-
You failed to mention that is for the Southern Hemisphere, LAST SEASON, and NOT for the Northern Hemisphere, THIS SEASON…
https://fortune.com/well/2022/11/14/how-effective-is-the-flu-shot-this-year/
“How effective is the flu shot this year?
The U.S. follows how the flu manifests in the Southern Hemisphere during its winter flu season to cast predictions on what will happen during our prime season, and therefore some years the flu vaccine is more effective than other years depending on the strain.”
_____________________________________
LIKE I SAID…
How effective it will be this year is anyone’s guess…
The flu season has only begun, there is no way to know how effective the flu shot will be in America yet.
What, it’s a different flu shot in the southern hemisphere?
CNN —
This year’s flu shot appears to be “a very good match” to the circulating strains, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said at a news briefing Monday. However, she noted that flu vaccinations are lagging behind the pace of previous years.
And once again your starting to make this personal..You did get the memo last time right?
Maybe it is a different flu shot in the Southern Hemisphere.
Do tell…
Different hemisphere, Different flu strains.
That’s most likely true…
Doesn’t seem that hard to understand.
There was that memo about linking ones quotes and claims, remember?
Simplifies fact checking them…
Nothing personal about that.
What part of CNN or CDC did you not understand?
The comment…
“This year’s flu shot has a nearly 50% efficacy against hospitalization from the major strain of the flu, according to the CDC.”
It is obviously not a quote from the CDC.
It is an uncredited quote.
That’s what I’m talking about.
Where was it copied it from?
(That way it can be fact checked, or researched further).
That’s what isn’t understandable for anyone, right?
What is that called, again, I can’t seem to recall?
CDC conducts studies each year to determine how well influenza (flu) vaccines protect against flu. While vaccine effectiveness (VE) can vary, recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% .
Note the CDC..
Also factor in that flu season started early so more data is available.
These posts are not a contest. There is no winner or loser. It should just be a useful exchange of information.
That contains no link to the plagiarized claim, that is not only unbounded by quotation marks, but is also uncredited.
And now a new claim that because “…flu season started early so there is more data available.”.
If that is true, then please provide that available VE data.
What part of CDC are you not understanding?
And my first post point of origin was confirmed by you.
https://kymkemp.com/2022/12/10/california-health-and-human-services-leaders-issue-statement-on-updated-vaccine-eligibility-for-children-6-months-and-older/#comment-1586850
Link please.
“While vaccine effectiveness (VE) can vary, recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% .”
-grey fox-
_____________________________________
“…recent studies…”…!!!???
I don’t think so…
Please define recent studies…
flu vaccination has not reduced the risk of flu illness 60% since 2010, as you can plainly see.
In fact for the last 5years, the average flu vaccine VE has been only been 36.2%.
And that is about 10% BELOW the lowest figure represented in the unlinked post.
If that 60% figure is included, the 19% figure should also be included, changing the true statement. to be, 19% to 60% VE.
Both great sources of government propaganda.
“Appears” isn’t very scientific.
Where is the proof?
Yikes, notes on local “‘Got Science” Democrat March’” and lone-wolf gunman movie-character (who rapes a woman, terrorizes town, kills many). Then Dems “will not like what the predictable future has in store for them”. Closing with “Exciting times for those few paying attention”.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/health/flu-vaccine-good-match/index.html
“We, of course, look in real time as to how well we think the influenza match is to what is circulating right now. The good news is that looks like it is a very good match,” Walensky said of the early start to the respiratory virus season.”
“She noted that the CDC would have more definitive data later in the season but that the data is encouraging.”
“Walensky said that even when the vaccine doesn’t closely match the circulating flu strains, “We see a 35% decrease in rates of hospitalization …
________________________
Yep. I posted last year’s flu vaccine VE data that showed a 31% decrease in rates of pediatric hospitalizations…
Which really just emphasizes, when you look at the VE for other demographics, just how much more effective it really could be.
At a dismal 11% VE for adult hospitalizations, how much more effective it really should be.
*
Haha that’s not a reliable source.
“According to the CDC.”
That should serve as your warning that the stsement is false.
https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/flu-shots-flopped-last-season
ATLANTA (Precision Vaccinations)
During the two-day U.S. CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting led by Dr. Grace Lee, several presentations revealed significant vaccine progress and measurable health impact.
However, when Jessie Chung MPH, Samantha Olson MPH, and Nathaniel Lewis Ph.D. presented the preliminary influenza vaccine efficacy (VE) results from the last flu season, various ACIP members expressed shock and dismay.
On slide (#18), the summary data revealed for the 2021–2022 influenza season, vaccinations provided low to non-significant protection against predominant influenza A/H3N2 illness of varying severity.
This presentation consolidated data from three networks to evaluate vaccine effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated outpatient visits, emergency department visits, and hospitalization.
The data suggested higher VE in outpatient settings compared to pediatric hospitalization/ED visits but not adult inpatient influenza.
The CDC staff presented the preliminary VE data as follows:
36% (95%CI: 20, 49) against outpatient illness aged ≥6 months (Flu VE),
31% (95%CI: -14, 58) against pediatric hospitalizations (NVSN),
19% (95%CI: -12, 41) against pediatric ED visits (NVSN),
11% (95%CI: -19, 33) against adult hospitalizations (IVY).
5 posts answering yourself…..compulsive obsessive much? Keep it up Grey you’ve got Guest on the ropes.
So that’s what its called.. Is it treatable?
It’s the * posts I wonder about..
Who can even read there back and forth comments. As of my posting 33 of 41 comments on this article are from the 2 of them. Repeat next week on the next article about COVID. Seriously they should just email or text each other.
Even the mice know…
This the same Paul Alexander who tried to censor and muzzle federal scientists who disagreed with Trump’s rhetoric when he served in that administration?
The same Paul Alexander who advocated for mass COVID infections that would’ve killed millions more in order to achieve “herd immunity”?
Just asking because he sounds like just the sort of person you should probably avoid taking medical advise on COVID from.
Letting covid run it’s course naturally wasn’t necessarily such a bad idea.
Maybe it would all be behind us now.
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but COVID is still running it’s course, despite those that you consider experts running the show.
Very soon folks will be rolling up their sleeves for their 6th COVID shot…
How many more shots before people realize that they are just being taken for a ride?
Now do Sweden.
Averaged over the last 5 years that there is data for…(No data for last winter) the flu vaccine VE was only 36.2%
A marijuana joint always provided the best vaccination modality for me.
All during the Covid response, I never got sick once thanks to my therapeutic cannabis modality.
I’d think smoking anything would exasperate respiratory illnesses. Can’t imagine any parent giving 6mo genetically engineered anything
This isn’t about the flu shot, it’s about the new untested bivalent booster…
Show us the stage 3 clinical trial results for this age group.
Who would do this to a little baby, under a year old?? Please think! It’s horrible, the thought of injecting this big unknown (about which more is being learned all the time, and it’s not good) into a little tiny tender being.
This^^^^^
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-flu-hospitalizations-highest-in-a-decade-180981265/
COVID is not currently the most pressing concern…
RSV NET hospitalization graph…
Green line in upper left is for 2022-2023 season.
China Flu
*
China
Dr from John’s Hopkins says CDC screwed up in their booster messaging…
I couldn’t agree more…
https://youtu.be/KSyxYU64nDQ
You can take this Jab and shove it!
There are ever-increasing reports about the mRNA “vaccines” being “clot shots” backed up by pathologists sharing sanitized autopsy results.
Each of us as adults must make wise choices about our own health and that of our children; but please do better research about the effects of COVID-19 on healthy people under 50 before making them take an experimental gene therapy tool that might permanently harm them.
I know about 200 people who caught COVID-19. 4 required hospitalization. None died. But the only ones who caught it again were those who had the vaccine.
Have a serious chat with your medical providers about the risks of taking or not-taking the shots.