“Everything will be fine when we have a vaccine.” How many times have you personally heard that statement, or even said it yourself? I always like to look at the facts we do know, and what we don’t know. The Food and Drug administration says, “An investigational drug can also be called an experimental drug, and is being studied to see if your disease or medical condition improves while taking it.”

The Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca FDA applications properly identify their new agents as investigational, which is normal at this very early stage of development. All the vaccine candidates are categorized as experimental because, 1) the pharmaceutical companies have applied for investigational use status; 2) adverse events will be settled under the legal standard for experimental medications; 3) recipients are enrolled as subjects in a medical trial to gather data on side effects; 4) persons are enrolled in a pharmaco-vigilance tracking system for at least two years; 5) many groups of persons have not been studied at all, including prior COVID-19 patients, pregnant women, youths, and elderly; and 6) there are no published animal studies data which is the main reason these experimental vaccines are now available to human test sub jects (the entire population of the U.S.).

Therefore, we do know that the existing vaccines are considered investigational or experimental by the FDA.

Let’s move on to what we don’t know. The CDC does not know how many doses of the experimental vaccine are necessary, how long the person’s protection will last, if it will cause the person’s body to react violently to exposure to the actual virus, or how it affects older people or pregnant women because these two groups have not been tested with any of the experimental vaccines.

The small amount of information I have referred to here can be studied in more detail by reading an informational paper written by U.S. doctors who have expressed concern over the mass distribution of this experimental vaccine. This paper can be found at the americasfrontlinedoctors.com. Be aware that if you do not type in the specific dot com website above, you will not go directly to their site, but you will get links to at least a dozen references discrediting them before the browser even lists the actual website. Please read this before you take one of the experimental COVID vaccines and especially when considering giving them to your children.

Deborah Derden Alpine