Ontario's Top Doctor Says Young Adults Probably Shouldn't be Vaccinated
He also now refers to this vaccine as a therapeutic.
Yes, you read that correctly. Please watch today’s press conference where Dr. Kieran Moore announces that Ontario will offer a fourth COVID shot to the entire province.
The most important exchange begins at the 28:45 mark in the linked video. The transcript is below.
When asked why Ontario is not recommending everyone get the shot this time, Dr. Moore specifies that ALL therapeutics (yes he refers to them as therapeutics in the exchange) come with risks. He further states that young healthy individuals have a very very low (yes he says very very) risk of COVID hospitalizations but face a significant risk from the vaccine (a 1 in 5000 chance of developing the very serious heart condition known as myocarditis).
This is a huge shift on this. They are shifting to calling this the proper word which is a therapeutic. Not a vaccine. And they are rightly saying that it should be a “personal decision” based on risk.
This has been obvious since last summer. We had the 6–9-month data from Israel by that point that showed no reduction in spread and an overly high risk of myocarditis in young people.
Let’s not forget that anyone (myself included) who chose to make a “personal decision” and evaluated the cost/benefit of the vaccine and COVID based on our individual health profiles like Dr. Moore advised today:
Became ineligible to have employment (or EI)
Was barred from all public places
Was prohibit from travelling
Was barred from all hospitals and long-term care homes (we still are today).
TRANSCRIPT
Journalist: Why not recommend it to everybody? Instead of saying it’s a “personal decision”.
Dr. Moore: Because at present we are doing a risk-based approach
Journalist: What’s the risk?
Dr. Moore: There is always a risk to having any therapeutic versus a benefit. You want to make sure there is a very strong benefit versus the risk. For a healthy 18-year healthy individual, the risk of getting hospitalized (from COVID), if you don’t have any underlying conditions, is very, very low. We know there IS a risk (to the vaccine). A very small risk. 1 in 5000 that may get myocarditis (from the vaccine) for example. You would have to have that discussion on the risk/benefit of complications of the vaccine versus the benefits of reduced hospitalizations for a young healthy person.