Government officials, the establishment media, and pharmaceutical representatives spent years reassuring the American public that COVID-19 vaccines were "safe and effective." Those who dared to correctly suggest otherwise were often attacked and censored, and many who refused the jabs lost their jobs.Several weeks after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took an axe to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' mRNA vaccine development activities and in the immediate wake of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's revocation of emergency-use authorization for COVID vaccines, FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary told CNN talking head Jake Tapper that his agency is about to shine an unflattering light on the fallout of the vaccines.Makary indicated on Thursday that the manufacturers of the latest COVID vaccines — Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax — have agreed both to conduct clinical trials on healthy subjects this flu season and to produce their results by May.'There have been children who have died from the COVID vaccine.'"I think that's going to help answer the question a lot of parents have. If you have a 6-year-old girl, does she need 70 more shots in her average lifespan, or is the population immunity, the natural immunity, and the current circulating virulence — that is, the severity of the virus circulating now — more like a common cold, and is the protection transient?" Makary said. "And what is the true death rate or myocarditis rate or serious adverse event rate of the COVID shot in a young, healthy male today?""We do know at the FDA — because we've been looking into the [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] database of self-reports — that there have been children who have died from the COVID vaccine," the commissioner told Tapper.VAERS accepts reports of adverse events that take place following vaccination from members of the public, health care providers, and vaccine manufacturers.RELATED: RFK Jr. laughs at Democratic senators' vaccine concern-mongering: 'You're just making stuff up' SementsovaLesia/Getty Images According to the VAERS database, there have been many thousands of reported serious reactions following COVID-19 vaccination among those 29 years of age and younger, including death and permanent disabilities.Makary indicated that his agency is now "doing a proper investigation" into COVID-19 child vaccination deaths.'It was not released in the last administration, and it should have been.'The commissioner noted that this investigation will include a review of autopsy reports, further scientific investigations, and interviews with "the primary sources, the family members who lost a child.""We think the public deserves to have that information," Makary continued. "It was not released in the last administration, and it should have been."Blaze News reached out to the FDA as well as to Pfizer, Novavax, and Moderna for comment but did not receive responses by deadline.After insinuating that the Biden administration sat on possible evidence of the COVID-19 vaccines' lethality, Makary alleged that some of the recently departed officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had hamstrung efforts earlier this year to obtain data pertaining to the link between myocarditis and the COVID vaccines.RELATED: RFK Jr. makes crystal clear to the CDC mutineers: The restoration of public trust 'won't stop' Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle that can manifest as various symptoms, including heart palpitations, chest pain, fainting, and weakness, and can also cause fatal cardiac arrest.Months after ex-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky claimed without evidence that her agency had not "seen any reports" or "a signal" for myocarditis, the FDA and the CDC belatedly put out advisories in 2021 admitting of an elevated risk of myocarditis among mRNA COVID-19 vaccinees. Despite these admissions, the corporate media and medical establishment spent years pushing the narrative that such risks remained mild and rare.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a Senate hearing last week that he agreed with the suggestion attributed to Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices member Dr. Retsef Levi that the COVID vaccines caused serious harm, including death, "especially among young people."Tapper, referencing Kennedy's agreement on this point, asked Makary on Thursday whether there was "a reliable, credible study behind that claim," noting that his team at CNN "went to the CDC website, and almost all the studies there, if not all the studies there, suggested the opposite, that kids were generally not poorly affected by the vaccine, that it was rare.""Yes, there is because they're at higher risk, particularly males, for myocarditis," Makary responded.Referencing the findings of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the commissioner added, "It can be as high as 1 in 2,600 young males between the ages of 17 and 24."A peer-reviewed study published last year in the pharmacotherapy journal Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety concluded that "COVID-19 vaccination is strongly associated with a serious adverse safety signal of myocarditis, particularly in children and young adults resulting in hospitalization and death."'We're not going to just keep rubber-stamping the approvals.'An FDA-funded study published by the Lancet journal eClinicalMedicine in October indicated that myocardial COVID-19 injuries warrant "continued clinical surveillance and long-term studies in affected patients."Makary suggested that his agency has "asked for the CDC to give us [myocarditis] data since we came into office" but was blocked and "given different excuses and told to wait and 'we can't do it.'"The commissioner alleged that "those individuals who resigned from the CDC that were at leadership [level]" were those who "gave us the hard time about getting the data."Among the CDC officials who recently resigned were Debra Houry, who served as chief medical officer; Daniel Jernigan, who directed the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Demetre Daskalakis, the non-straight activist who directed the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.While Makary suggested during the interview that the vaccines produced as a result of President Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed saved lives, especially because early on "there was low population immunity," he stressed that now is "a different time."The FDA recently revoked emergency-use authorization for COVID vaccines but approved COVID-19 vaccines for adults over 65 and for individuals 6 months and older who have one or more risk factors putting them at high risk of severe COVID."We're not going to just keep rubber-stamping the approvals that then lead to this incredible march and chant every year: 'Everyone has to get their COVID shot,'" Makary told Tapper.Like Blaze News? 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Homeschool has long been seen as a bubble of hardcore Christians who are opting out of the public school system to keep their children far away from state indoctrination — but according to CEO of Classical Conversations, Robert Bortins, that’s all changing.“I think God’s design for all humanity is for you to educate your own children. So I’m very glad that secular non-Christians are homeschooling,” Bortins begins. “But as that’s taken place, a lot of the homeschool kind of pioneers who maybe created this curriculum don’t have people to pass it on to.”“So they’re selling to like PE companies or larger organizations, and they’re secularizing the curriculum,” he explains.While Bortins doesn’t believe it's necessarily a bad thing that non-Christians are opting to homeschool their children, it is changing the environment, and in some ways for the worse.One curriculum in particular, Saxon Math, was written by a Christian.“He gets older. He wants to retire. He sells it to Pearson, which is a billion-dollar publicly traded company. Well, they don’t want to have those same ideas. They want to have their curriculum lined with Common Core or No Child Left Behind, or whatever the latest government edicts are,” Bortins explains."And so they basically make a homeschool curriculum of the old version and then just use the branding for the new one. Meanwhile, they’re jacking up the prices for homeschooling curriculum because they don’t want to maintain it and really want to just drive that out,” he continues.“And so you’ve just got to be very careful that as homeschooling expands, that these ideologies are going to start creeping in. And I think that’s going to have a possibility for just negative outcomes for the homeschooling space in general if we aren't wide-eyed on what’s going on,” he adds.One friend of Bortins went on a homeschooling field trip with their kids, which they were expecting to have “a young earth creation worldview.”“It was being put on by secular evolutionists, and so you know, they paid for it, and went to this event, and really got an education in why they needed to do more research before just blindly thinking everything in the homeschool space is Christian,” he explains.Stuckey is horrified, noting that it was also reported in the National Review that wokeness is infiltrating homeschooling.The article details a homeschooling “unConvention” in Virginia that featured sessions like “all history is queer history,” which was led by a transgender rights activist. Other sessions included talks on “forms of decoloniality” and “resolving unexamined experiences with bias and oppression.”“Now, I don’t understand why someone who believes this wouldn’t just send their kids to public school,” Stuckey says, adding, “I mean, you can get that kind of thing for free, right? Unless they think it’s not radical enough.”Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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