A clinical lecturer at the Centre for Integrative Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan said minors should talk to parents before getting a COVID-19 shot and that the premier and school boards could be liable for vaccine injuries. .Dr. Chong Wong, who is also a Saskatoon family physician, made his comments at a press conference in front of Evan Hardy Collegiate in Saskatoon..“One parent came up to me, she was really distraught. She was in tears, just crying, basically. And my thought was, ‘What is going on?’ She says, ‘My child could come home anytime and tell me that he’s received the vaccine without talking with me,’” Wong recalled..“I thought, ‘Oh, that can’t be true.’ I said, ‘They always talk to parents.’ Since then I found out that legally, that could be true. But still, what does a child know? The child needs the wisdom of the parents, right? The parents have been around longer, and they need to sit down..“My biggest concern is that we need to have informed consent. We do that everywhere in medicine. For a child, they need the wisdom of the parent to decide whether you have your tonsils removed, when we move any kind of drugs at that age, we need the parents’ wisdom to guide yes or no. That’s my main concern I see in my patients.”.Wong said that unlike “going across the street to buy an ice cream cone,” the COVID-19 shots had risks. .“You’ll see the adverse effects as listed on Health Canada website. They all say under 1% [risk] and all this, but people have severe reactions.”.In his own way, Wong said the road to hell was paved with good intentions..“I’d like to thank Premier Scott Moe and the school system for their heart in trying to get us back to normal with vaccination. I understand your heart, but also we have to be careful that we do not use methods to get us there and harming people. So I don’t want the government, I don’t want to see the school board be responsible for harm done to the children. For sure people are getting harmed already.”.Health Canada said as of May 28, “Of the 6,408 individual reports (0.028% of all doses administered), 1,262 were considered serious (0.006% of all doses administered).”.Some doctors, such as Patrick Phillips in Englehart, Ont., have complained the bar is set too high for adverse reaction reports. He made five of them to the Timiskaming Health Unit, only to have each one rejected. .Wong believes parents, not school or government, should decide on a child’s vaccination..“It should be on the parent who will talk to their children. If that child gets harmed by the vaccine, then the parent can take responsibility for that, not the school, not Premier Moe for sure. Those reasons can happen. Lawsuits can come forth and so on.”.One party that won’t get sued is the vaccine manufacturers. The federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine purchase contracts required it to set up a national no-fault compensation program, retroactive to early December. Worldwide Pfizer projects $26 billion of COVID-19 revenues, yet taxpayers will foot the bill for any compensation here..Health Canada told CBC compensation is reserved for those who receive “a severe, life-threatening or life-altering injury that may require in-person hospitalization, or a prolongation of existing hospitalization, and results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, or where the outcome is a congenital malformation or death.”.Some anecdotal reports of children’s adverse reactions have already appeared. In Petawawa, Ont., Portia Hoffman-Strang posted her son’s story to Facebook..“My son is 12, he is healthy with no underlying health conditions … 60 seconds after his vaccine he dropped and was knocked unconscious for minutes. (and now is suffering from a grade 3 concussion.).“How is it OK for the health unit to be telling people in our local community the vaccine had nothing to do with this. How? Doctors don’t even know so what makes it OK for you to lie and tell our community otherwise.”.Some Canadian doctors have also faced censure for speaking out. Family physician Dr. Charles Hoffe in Lytton, B.C. said 10 of his 900 patients had serious adverse reactions. He received a warning from the College of Physicians and Surgeons for creating vaccine hesitancy and was also barred from the local emergency ward..Harding is a Western Standard correspondent based in Saskatchewan
