Day 684: Hurting the Children

Vinay Prasad posts an impassioned condemnation of all the damage done to children in the name of Science. He mentions the underpowered trial used to emergency-authorize Pfizer's vaccine for children 5–11 despite the dangers, but devotes more words to school closures and small cloth masks:

Some have claimed that our policies to children reflect “following the science.” They do not. There is no science to support primary school closure. No science supported prolonged (>1 year) closure for any age. No science supported outdoor cloth mask mandates for young kids, and no science supported deviating from the WHO guidance [on masks]. These policies meanwhile have devastating consequences for the well-being of children.

The one thing he gets wrong is that no organization stood up for the children; Children's Health Defense did.

P.S. Alex Berenson mocks Moderna for "pulling out of a major biotech industry conference in January because it’s afraid of Covid":

[A] company that has sold upwards of $15 billion in mRNA Covid vaccines this year won’t participate in a conference in San Francisco next month.

Apparently too many people will be going, or some such.

Now that’s confidence in your product!

P.S. Massachusetts cases were up three-fifths of a percentage point today.