(LifeSiteNews) — An FDA Committee that recommended approval of Pfizer’s COVID jab for young kids on Tuesday featured multiple members with significant connections to the pharmaceutical giant. Some of the committee members had professional and financial ties to Pfizer, having worked on projects sponsored by the drug company in the past.
Committee member Archana Chatterjee worked on a project researching the vaccination of infants for two years that was sponsored by Pfizer. Dr. Myron Levine mentored the senior director of vaccine research and development at Pfizer, Raphael Simon.
Dr. Geeta Krishna Swamy has served as a “co-investigator” for a Pfizer vaccine trial, according to Duke University. Former vice president for Pfizer Vaccines, Greg Sylvester, also had a hand in the committee.
At the meeting, 17 members voted in favor of approval, one abstained, and nobody voted against it, judging that the benefits of jabbing children between 5 and 11 years old with the Pfizer shot outweigh any other health risks. The abortion-tainted jab has not been officially approved yet, but the FDA will make a final decision within days and is expected to follow the advice of the committee.
Some experts have raised concerns over the lack of safety and efficacy data presented by Pfizer for use of its COVID vaccine in younger children. Those who have objected to a wide-scale child jab initiative have pointed to increasing safety signals based on reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Significant risks of myocarditis have been brought to light by experts who study the available data of adverse reactions reported after children are jabbed. American cardiologist, Dr. Peter McCullough has warned about the risks of heart inflammation in children who are jabbed. In August he said: “We are at 5,093 cases of myocarditis as of August 20 in the US. We haven’t really ramped up vaccinating kids yet. This is the tip of the iceberg. In no way should a parent think that myocarditis is rare, because it’s not. We’re talking about thousands of children already have developed myocarditis.”
Pfizer admitted in a report released on Friday before the meeting that its test group was “too small to detect any potential risks of myocarditis associated with vaccination.” The pharma giant intimated that it doesn’t know the long-term effects of the jab, but studies will be conducted over the next few years.
Last December, when a committee made up of many of the same members met to discuss approving the Pfizer jab for adults, FDANews wrote: “FDA advisory committee members in the past have frequently been the target of heavy politicking by industry representatives of whatever drug they were considering for a recommendation at in-person meetings. That process has been somewhat altered by the fact that during COVID-19, meetings are being held virtually. But it’s likely that behind-the-scenes pressuring still goes on. The industry defends the attempts to influence committee members as simply efforts to best present their case.”
Dr. Eric Rubin, who spoke during the FDA meeting, stated: “We’re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it. That’s the way it goes.” The same doctor also said that “we’re worried about a side effect that we can’t measure yet, but it’s probably real.”
This expected approval is consistent with a White House plan to jab 28 million elementary school-aged children with experimental jabs.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted the proposed approval and plan to jab millions of kids on his show Tuesday. Reacting to the expected full approval, he said “mandates for children of those ages [5-11] will soon follow.”
He questioned the narrative surrounding the push to vaccinate children with the experimental jab, for a disease that is statistically insignificant for kids, compared to other respiratory illnesses. He said: “What does the science say … it turns out that children of those ages are more likely to die of the annual flu than they are from COVID.”
“From March through October of last year … a child had a one in a million chance of dying from COVID,” Carlson added. “By contrast, kids are ten times more likely to die of suicide, that’s the actual pandemic raging among young people.”
The Fox News host highlighted the inconsistencies in a plan to vaccinate kids while Pfizer admitted it will not know the effects for at least five years. “In other words, ‘Approve our drug, make it mandatory for small children and then we will tell you whether or not it’s safe.’”