CDC disappears COVID19 vaccine data for ages 5-11; plus, risk update for children

IMPORTANT UPDATE, April 8, 2022: Within a day of the publication of this paper, the missing vaccination data for 5-11-year-olds was restored, just as mysteriously as it vanished, sometime between March 16 and April 3. I’ve updated the risk chart at the end with the most recent available vaccine and VAERS data. It’s good to know someone at the CDC is following my blog—how about a comment explaining when the data was removed and why?

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I’ve previously used the CDC’s  COVID19 Data Tracker to estimate the number of vaccines given to children—which is necessary to calculate vaccine risk. But something strange happened when I tried to do an update: the number of vaccinated children had decreased since last month—by a lot—more than 17 million.

It turned out the strange shrinkage, shown in the table below, was caused by the unexplained disappearance of data for 5-11-year-olds.

See Note 1 for the source(s) of this data.

Where did the data go?

Vaccination data for children age 5-11 disappeared sometime between March 16 and April 3; the details are in Note 1. The covid shots were approved for children age 5-11 on October 29, 2021, and the CDC was keeping track of vaccination data for children under 12 at that time. They continued to do so until at least March 16. But by April 3, vaccine data for children under 12 had disappeared. It was still missing as of this publication on April 7.

The data is apparently still in the system, however, and is reflected in the CDC’s general totals—meaning you get different numbers, depending on whether you look at the age demographic data or the general totals. I summarized the discrepancies in the table below.

See Note 2 for the general totals, and Note 1 for the demographic data.

Take a look at the following summary from the COVID19 Data Tracker website. Who keeps track of vaccinations this way? It’s confusing and ridiculous.

But at least it provides a way to estimate the missing demographic data for 5-11-year-olds: by subtracting the vaccinated “Population ≥ 12 Years of Age” from the vaccinated “Population ≥ 5 Years of Age.” I’ve done that in the table below, just for fun—but no one should have to jump through math hoops just to get demographic data the CDC has at its fingertips, but hides from the public.

See Note 2 for the source(s) of this data.

Why was the data disappeared?

If there were a technical problem that required the data for age 5-11-year-olds to be taken offline temporarily, I assume the website would mention that, and let us know when it was expected to be restored. There’s no indication that happened—it’s as if the data never existed. It had to have been taken offline intentionally. Why?

Since the number of vaccines administered is required to calculate risk, burying that information makes it more difficult to do. We already know that more serious injuries and deaths have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from the COVID19 vaccines than from all other vaccines combined for the last 31 years. Maybe the CDC is trying to conceal an exceptionally high risk for 5-11-year-olds, to facilitate approval of the covid shots for babies. The timing of the disappearing data is suspicious, with the question of approval for infants on the table.

Another possibility is that devastating revelations about the dangers of the covid shots for children are coming down the pike, and the CDC is engaging in some CYA—maybe to conceal the number of vaccines administered, or to distance themselves from the childhood vaccine campaign.

I’m open to other ideas, if anyone has any. One thing for sure—it wasn’t done to achieve greater transparency.

What’s going on at VAERS?

I wanted to see whether anything was going on at VAERS that might make the CDC particularly eager to deter risk calculations for 5-11-year-olds. Unfortunately, VAERS (which is jointly managed by the CDC and the FDA) makes this question very difficult to answer, by lumping together all children age 6-17 in a single age group.

The only way I could find to separate 5-11-year-olds from 12-17-year-olds was to do it manually, by examining hundreds of VAERS reports individually—a massive project. But it’s possible someone who knows VAERS better than I do, or has been following VAERS reports closely, has documented this information already, or knows where it can be found.  

See Note 3 for the source(s) of this data.

Overall, serious events reported to VAERS from COVID19 vaccines began increasing after the shots were authorized for children age 5-11, as shown in this chart (3). VAERS reports were declining before the approval, and it would be useful to know how many of the reports concern children age 5-11 and how many concern ages 12-17—especially considering that approval was granted separately for each of these age groups. It’s yet another example of how the designers of VAERS are masters of obfuscation.

Updated risk calculations for children

(NOTE: The chart has been updated—see the Important Update at the beginning of this paper.) Finally, here’s Covid-Con Bear with the latest vaccine risk calculations for kids. I used the CDC’s age demographic vaccination data (without the missing data for 5-11-year-olds). This artificially inflates the risk somewhat, but there’s an easy fix for that:

RESTORE THE MISSING DATA.

See Note 4 for the sources of this data.

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NOTES:

(1) Vaccinated people by age group, according to the CDC’s COVID19 Data Tracker.

The first image shows the data captured on October 28, 2021, the day before the covid shots were authorized for children age 5-11. The CDC was posting data for children under 12 at that time, and continued to do so until at least March 16, when the second set of data was captured. But by April 5, vaccine data for children under 12 had disappeared.

ADDENDUM: Following is the vaccine data, updated as of 4/8/2022, with age group 5-11 yrs restored.

(2) Number of people vaccinated for COVID19 in the US.

(3) Children age 0-17: Serious Events reported to VAERS from COVID19 vaccines.

(4) Estimated risk of COVID19 vaccination in the US (Children age 0-17)

For the number of vaccinations, see Note 1 (Addendum). To estimate the number of vaccines administered, 1 vaccine was counted for each person listed in each category (“At Least One Dose,” “Fully Vaccinated” and “Booster”). This yields a total that is close to the actual vaccine total, but not exact. For serious events reported to VAERS, see Note 3 (Addendum below). For deaths reported to VAERS, see (Addendum) below:

ADDENDUM: Following is the VAERS data for serious events and deaths aged 0-17, updated as of 4/8/2022.

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