Your Vaccine Passport

gwb-trading said:
Let's fact check your nonsense that many people and children are dying from COVID vaccines. Maybe it is time you stopped sourcing nonsense from anti-vax conspiracy sites.

“943 innocent kids … are now injured or dead” because of the COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.politifact.com/factchec...-no-proof-covid-19-vaccine-has-injured-or-ki/

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There’s no proof that COVID-19 vaccine has injured or killed more than 900 children
  • The data in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System are not verified, and cannot be used on their own to show that vaccines caused negative health effects.
Two weeks after Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was cleared for use in adolescents, newly reported clinical trial results show Moderna’s vaccine is also highly effective for 12- to 17-year-olds, a hopeful sign for parents who are eager to get their kids vaccinated before school starts in the fall.

But an Instagram post suggests that parents ought to be worried about the safety of the vaccines in children.

The post includes a graphic that reads, "The latest CDC data show reports of adverse events from COVID vaccines surpass 220,000, including 943 among 12-17 year olds."

The user who posted the image wrote in the caption, "I can’t help but to focus on the fact that 943 innocent kids whose parents believed that they were doing the right thing to protect their children — thanks to the propaganda packaged as science — are now injured or dead."

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

So far, there’s no hard proof of anyone in the U.S. — adults or children — having died as a result of getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Three people have died from a rare blood clotting issue that health officials have said could be linked to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which hasn't been approved for children.

This graphic attributes adverse-event data to the CDC, apparently referring to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, a public data collection tool run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

The agencies and other medical researchers use the system to monitor adverse events — or possible side effects — following a vaccine that may warrant further study. For example, the CDC is currently investigating 18 cases of heart inflammation in teens and young adults, out of 164 million people who have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

VAERS is designed so that any person can report an adverse event, and anyone can scour the reports.

But VAERS accepts reports without verifying whether a vaccine actually caused that incident. That makes VAERS a dangerous breeding ground for misinformation that spreads quickly on social media and elsewhere. For more than 30 years, VAERS data has been misused to justify broad conclusions that vaccines are harmful.

The agencies that run VAERS warn that its reports cannot be used on their own to show whether a vaccine caused certain adverse events. So the events cited in the Instagram post are not evidence that anyone died or was injured because of the vaccine.

We took a look at the numbers given in the claim, and checked them against what’s in VAERS.

As of the last weekly update on May 21, VAERS shows 227,612 total reported events for all age groups for the COVID-19 vaccines.

We then ran a narrower search for the 6-to-17 age group, which would include the 12- to 17-year-olds now eligible for vaccination. VAERS turned up 2,207 reported events, not 943.

But that number does not represent the number of people who died or were injured, as the Instagram post claims. It is just the number of reports entered into the database.

Under the symptoms listed in those event reports, for example, "No Adverse Event" occurs 400 times. Many of the reports detail people experiencing the known side effects of the vaccine: headache, soreness, fever and fatigue, which are temporary and treatable with recommended over-the-counter medication.

A search that included just serious adverse events — a category that includes death, life-threatening events, and events that involve hospitalization — turned up 46 reports of events for the 6-to-17 age group. Three reported events cited a death. Each of these reports requires investigation and doesn’t signify a confirmed event related to the vaccine.

So the numbers in the claim don’t align with what’s in VAERS. But more than that, VAERS reports don’t indicate whether any deaths or injuries are caused by the vaccines. Researchers would need more studies and data to determine that.

Our ruling
An Instagram post claims that 943 children and teens have been injured or killed because of the COVID-19 vaccine. The post cites data from the government’s VAERS tool to back up this claim.

For the 6-to-17 age group, a search of the VAERS tool turns up 46 reports of serious adverse events after a COVID-19 vaccination. But the agencies that maintain VAERS warn that the reports should not be used to draw conclusions about whether a vaccine causes a particular adverse event.

There is no hard proof so far of anyone in the U.S. having died as a result of getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

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You may want to inform the WHO that Politifact in your opinion proves that the vaccine is safe for children.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/advice

Children should not be vaccinated for the moment.

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.
 
WeToddDid2 said:
You may want to inform the WHO that Politifact in your opinion proves that the vaccine is safe for children.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/advice

Children should not be vaccinated for the moment.

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.
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Seeing that no COVID vaccines are approved for children under 12 -- it is little wonder the WHO does not recommend it for children. Why don't you look up their advice for teens.
 
gwb-trading said:
Seeing that no COVID vaccines are approved for children under 12 -- it is little wonder the WHO does not recommend it for children. Why don't you look up their advice for teens.
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Well, from the below language, it looks as though the WHO is stating the 17 and under should not take the vaccine.

So, that would include teen years 13 through 17.

What else do you want to know?

Just inform the WHO that they should get all of their guidance from Politifact.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/advice
The COVID-19 vaccines are safe for most people 18 years and older, including those with pre-existing conditions of any kind, including auto-immune disorders. These conditions include: hypertension, diabetes, asthma, pulmonary, liver and kidney disease, as well as chronic infections that are stable and controlled.

If supplies are limited in your area, discuss your situation with your care provider if you:

  • Have a compromised immune system
  • Are pregnant (if you are already breastfeeding, you should continue after vaccination)
  • Have a history of severe allergies, particularly to a vaccine (or any of the ingredients in the vaccine)
  • Are severely frail
Children should not be vaccinated for the moment.

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.
 
Buttigieg says federal government supports rights of companies to implement vaccine passport
https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...ent-supports-rights-of-companies-to-implement

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said the federal government supports the rights of companies to implement a COVID-19 vaccine passport policy.

Buttigieg was asked by a Texas news outlet his opinion on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) banning companies from requiring proof of vaccination before entering their business.

"If a company, a business wants to take steps to keep their workers and their passengers safe, I would think that, from a government perspective, we want to do everything we can to encourage that," Buttigieg told KDFW Fox 4 on Monday. "And that’s certainly our view at the federal level."

(More at above url)
 
Google is building COVID-19 Vaccine Passports directly into Android
https://mspoweruser.com/google-is-building-covid-19-vaccine-passports-directly-into-android/

Google is opening up its digital wallet to support COVID-19 vaccine passports.

Healthcare provider apps can now save vaccine passports to the wallet, which will show when you were vaccinated and which vaccine you received.

Google has said it won’t have access to the specific details saved but will record how often you use the card.

Users will be able to add a shortcut to the card to their home screen, to easily display on request.

The feature, which is rolling out to the USA first, relies on health care providers who distribute vaccines, such as local governments, to support it, with many authorities however already working on their own vaccine card apps.
 
Plague rats not allowed...

The country with the world’s highest vaccination rate won’t let the unvaccinated enter
https://fortune.com/2021/07/12/malta-highest-vaccination-rate-unvaccinated-enter/

There's no country in the world that has fully vaccinated more of its citizens, by proportion, than Malta has. Over 80% of the adult population is fully vaccinated now—and still it's not enough to keep COVID at bay.

With case numbers having increased by more than 600% in the past week, the Mediterranean archipelago has become the first country in the European Union to announce a ban on visitors who are not themselves fully vaccinated, or who are not under-12s brandishing a negative PCR test while accompanying vaccinated parents.

The ban will take effect on Wednesday, with an exemption for Maltese citizens and residents who have already booked a flight home; they will still be able to enter with a negative PCR test.

“In recent days, the majority of new cases were related to travel—people who came from abroad or Maltese who went abroad and came back. Most are those unvaccinated tourists," said Health Minister Chris Fearne on Friday. He added that many cases have been coming from English schools, which the government will also be temporarily shuttering.

It's a significant and speedy U-turn for a country that made a big deal of reopening to both vaccinated and unvaccinated tourists at the start of last month, and that was running advertorials as recently as last week, boasting that "no quarantine or other restrictions apply for fully vaccinated tourists coming to Malta or those presenting a PCR COVID-19 test taken not earlier than 72 hours before arrival."

Less than a month ago, Malta said people from 38 U.S. states could visit the country with a negative PCR test. That's now over. Even if American tourists can prove they are vaccinated, Malta accepts only vaccine certificates issued in the EU or the U.K.

Most worryingly for the travel industry and for the European Commission, the EU's executive body, what Malta just did flies in the face of the united stance on border restrictions and "vaccine passports" that has just been adopted across the union.

Since the start of July, there has been a common framework for EU countries accepting digital COVID certificates at their borders. The certificates indicate if a person has been vaccinated, has a recent negative PCR test result, or has recovered from COVID-19. Malta, which has already been ignoring the last option for months, is now effectively accepting only one of three criteria underpinning a system that's less than two weeks old.

The Commission, which has spent the pandemic desperately trying to retain some semblance of the EU's fundamental free-movement arrangement, is not amused.

"Any [public health measure] that restricts free movement needs to be proportionate and nondiscriminatory," said Commission spokesman Christian Wigand at a Monday press conference. "A vaccine certificate cannot be a precondition for the exercise of free movement. This is one of the main principles of the EU digital COVID certificate regulation."

Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela had already said in a Sunday radio interview that the European Commission was critical of the measure. "We were already more restrictive than the others, and now we will be even more restrictive…The lives and livelihoods of the Maltese are what matters," he said.

The Association of British Travel Agents told the Guardian that Malta's new rules were "confusing" but said it was confident other EU countries would remain open to travel—even those such as Spain, which is also seeing a vertiginous rise in case numbers.
 
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