{"id":985962,"date":"2021-11-08T17:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=985962"},"modified":"2021-11-08T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:28:48","slug":"biden-administration-likens-polio-to-coronavirus-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-likens-polio-to-coronavirus-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Likens Polio to Coronavirus in Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-likens-polio-to-coronavirus-in-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=985962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">First lady Jill Biden and Surgeon General&nbsp;Vivek Murthy kicked off their campaign to encourage child coronavirus vaccinations Monday by visiting the first school to inoculate children against polio in McLean, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The administration is pushing to get children ages 5-11 vaccinated. The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/feds-urge-schools-to-provide-covid-19-shots-info-for-kids\/\">states<\/a> that 28 million children are eligible for the shots now that the Pfizer vaccine was approved.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In 1954, Dr. Richard Mulvaney <a href=\"https:\/\/boundarystones.weta.org\/2020\/10\/22\/%E2%80%9C-shot-was-felt-around-world%E2%80%9D-mcleans-polio-pioneers\">administered<\/a> the first polio vaccine to 114 second graders at McLean\u2019s Franklin Sherman Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization, 1 in 200 polio infections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/poliomyelitis\">lead<\/a> to \u201cirreversible paralysis,\u201d and five to ten percent of those paralyzed will die. While the United States has been polio-free since 1979, CDC&nbsp;data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/00056803.htm\">shows<\/a>&nbsp;that from \u201c1951-1954, an average of 16,316 paralytic polio cases and 1,879 deaths from polio were reported each year,\u201d most of them children.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/acip\/meetings\/downloads\/slides-2021-11-2-3\/03-COVID-Jefferson-508.pdf\">reports<\/a> that from January 1, 2020, to October 16, 2021, 94 children ages 5 to 11 died from the coronavirus, and 8,300 were hospitalized due to coronavirus, accounting for 1.7 percent of all deaths for children in that age group. From October 2020 to October 2021, the same number of children ages 5-11 died from the coronavirus as by suicide in 2019 \u2013 66. Notably, youth suicide attempts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7024e1.htm\">skyrocketed<\/a> during the pandemic, and data for 2021 has yet to be released.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>While polio is usually contracted by children under 5, the average age of someone who died from the coronavirus is 72.8 years old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/news-perspective\/2021\/02\/covid-19-scan-feb-19-2021\">according<\/a> to the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18659586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236445254.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18659586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236445254.jpg\" alt=\"First Lady Jill Biden (R) speaks with recently vaccinated children during a visit to a childrens Covid-19 vaccination clinic at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia, on November 8, 2021. (Photo by Jim WATSON \/ AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Lady Jill Biden speaks with recently vaccinated children during a visit to a children\u2019s Covid-19 vaccination clinic at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia, on November 8, 2021. (JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Compared to the flu, an estimated 72 kids ages 5-11&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gis.cdc.gov\/GRASP\/Fluview\/PedFluDeath.html\">died<\/a> from influenza in the United States during the 2019-2020 season. In all child age groups, 199-434 succumbed to the flu, yet the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/highrisk\/children.htm#danger\">labels<\/a> pediatric deaths from flu as \u201crelatively rare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s visit comes as Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote a letter Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/becerra-cardona-letter-on-covid-19-vaccination-for-children.pdf?utm_source=TWITTER&amp;utm_medium=TWITTER&amp;utm_content=100002661641179&amp;utm_campaign=Engagement&amp;linkId=100000082795359\">asking<\/a>&nbsp;schools to set up coronavirus vaccination clinics for children.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News reported Monday that in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/08\/joe-biden-praises-big-bird-for-getting-coronavirus-vaccine\/\">support<\/a> of children\u2019s vaccinations, messages encouraging the jab were posted on Sesame Street characters\u2019 Twitter accounts. President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigBird\/status\/1456971880666046465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1457525774530097152%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F11%2F08%2Fjoe-biden-praises-big-bird-for-getting-coronavirus-vaccine%2F\">joined<\/a> in, responding to Big Bird\u2019s account, \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Getting vaccinated is the best way to keep your whole neighborhood safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lady Jill Biden and Surgeon General\u00a0Vivek Murthy kicked off their campaign to encourage child coronavirus vaccinations Monday by visiting the first school to inoculate children against polio in McLean, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":1893894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}