This is a very small study, but its findings would be very worrisome if they were replicated in a larger group of children. Assuming that anybody bothers to replicate the study on a large scale, given how hostile the establishment is to any data that doesn’t back their full-throated support for COVID-19 vaccines.

The news comes through Alex Berenson, a vaccine skeptic and somebody I read to get a sense of what skeptics are saying. He is a very polarizing figure, so I always take care to check his assertions carefully not because I distrust him, but rather to ensure that I agree with his reading of the evidence.

Full Unreported Truths here:https://t.co/OBm0C9nDv8

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 30, 2023

Berenson’s report is based on a peer-reviewed study of the effects of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines on the immune systems of children. The study focused on the Pfizer vaccine in particular.

The results were troubling. Quite troubling, actually. What the research found in their small cohort of participants is that children who were administered the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine saw their immune response to bacteria and viruses drop dramatically, and while the response to bacteria rebounded after 6 months, the response to viruses had not yet rebounded by the end of the study at 6 months.

Kids who got Pfizer’s mRNA Covid jabs had a weakened immune response to other viruses and bacteria, Australian researchers reported in a study published last week.

The diminished response appeared within weeks after the second Pfizer dose, the authors found. Blood taken from the children produced fewer crucial signaling molecules when stimulated with several common potential bacteria and viruses.

Over time, the immune response to bacteria returned to normal. But the diminished response to viruses lasted at least six months, for as long as the researchers collected data. “Our study showed that, in children, SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination decreases inflammatory cytokine responses,” the authors wrote.

I went to the study itself to get my own read of the data and argument, and while the authors were very cautious not to dramatize the results, they certainly were right to argue that this result requires further study soon. Berenson summarizes thusly:

The study was small, including only 29 children aged 6-11 at the first post-vaccination checkpoint and eight children at the six-month sample period. Further, the study’s short size and tiny number of participants meant the researchers could not correlate real-world clinical outcomes – such as increased severity of infections – with the diminished immune responses.

The peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Immunology published the paper. In keeping with other papers that have reported disturbing findings about the mRNAs, the study’s authors were careful to tiptoe around the potential impact of their data.

In their discussion, they wrote only that the findings show “the need for further research and consideration… given their broad public health implications.”

The authors point out something that is particularly worrisome: children have naive immune systems and are exposed to a lot of bacteria and viruses for the first time when they are young. Altering the immune response, particularly suppressing the immune response, at a very young age may be particularly problematic.

Millions of children have already been vaccinated, and it makes a lot of sense to do enhanced monitoring of the statistics to see if any long-term trends can be teased out of the data we collect.

For children not vaccinated or in line to get boosters it seems insane to keep pushing these vaccines. There is obviously a ton we don’t know. Why risk it?