10. Steven M. Roth, MD (Dr. Roth), of Alabama, has been a
practicing emergency medicine physician for 13 years. As part of his practice,
Dr. Roth sees patients of all ages. He is aware of the risks and benefits of
these investigational agents as well as the current vaccine schedule for other
diseases. Based on the most recent numbers from the CDC from May 5, 2021,
anyone under the age of 16 has statistically NO risk of dying of Covid-19.
Dr. Roth has not seen a COVID-19 patient in many months, but he is
currently seeing many patients who come to the emergency department as
post-COVID-19 injection patients. All of these patients came in with COVID-
19 like symptoms that occurred within 48 hours of the injection. All these
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patients required hospital admission. Several of these patients progressed to
death, caused by the vaccine.
Dr. Roth’s concern is that based upon what he is seeing in the
community, and because of the schools asking that students take the
experimental COVID-19 injections and putting obstacles around those who
do not take it, young people are being pressured to take an experimental
injection, and many are succumbing to that pressure. This is deeply
disturbing to Dr. Roth, because it is universally known that children virtually
never die from COVID-19 and given that children have a very strong immune
system, they are more likely than adults to have an over-reaction to the shot.
This means that there is not only no benefit, but also an increased risk for
children who receive the experimental COVID-19 injections. Also, with all
prior viruses and vaccines, it has been accepted in the medical community
that natural immunity is superior to vaccination, and there is no basis to
believe that would be different with SARS-CoV-2. Because of these factors, it
is actually not preferable to give the vaccine even if it was definitely safe,
which these are not.
In addition, Dr. Roth is extraordinarily concerned that there have
been no animal studies, nor long-term studies, of the COVID-19 vaccines,
especially since prior coronavirus vaccines all caused death in the animals
subjected to them.
Dr. Roth is aware of many thousands of physicians who agree with
him, but who are under great pressure to say nothing. Dr. Roth has
chosen to speak out now, at great personal cost to himself, because the
alternative is unbearable. Dr. Roth could not live with himself if he stood
by and allowed these experimental COVID-19 injections to be inflicted
upon children universally, resulting in death and destruction over the
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years. He considers it immoral and unconscionable that this
experimental therapy will be given to children. Not only are children
NOT at risk of death from COVID-19, but they are also NOT mini-adults.
Their organs are still forming, and they are even more vulnerable than
adults to developing auto-immune disease in this situation.
Dr. Roth would be deeply and directly affected by a change in FDA
guidelines regarding vaccines for young people, and as a result he is
imploring this Court to grant an immediate TRO to halt the approval of the
infliction of the experimental COVID-19 injections upon children. In addition
to the direct threat of irreparable harm posed to Dr. Roth’s young patients,
an additional unwelcome consequence of using coercion to mandate or
pressure the participation of healthy young people who are statistically at
NO risk is the risk of sharply reducing the public trust in all vaccines. This
would also create what can only be described as irreparable harm to the
public generally. Dr. Roth’s duly executed Declaration is attached hereto and
incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit I.