Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/JQ1tBKpexVk   Now that the Pfizer CoVid vaccine has been approved for kids 5 through 12 years and you have to decide whether to vaccinate your child, consider 3 issues: safety, necessity to maintain your child’s health, and the necessity to maintain your family’s and community’s health.  Excellent thoughts on these issues come from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Vaccine Education Center.   Safety Issues Myocarditis:  This heart tissue inflammation has rarely occurred in teens and young adults receiving mRNA vaccines.  Only 5 of 100,000 males 16 to 29 years developed it compared with 59 of 100,000 after a CoVid infection.  For females, those numbers are only 1 in 100,000 for the vaccine versus 39 in 100,000 for the infection. Fertility:  For females, vaccination often temporarily creates menstrual irregularity but seems to have no impact on fertility.  Antibodies to CoVid either from vaccination or infection do not affect fertility, and millions of vaccinated women, eve