Link to the brief: Nagel Brief – Amicus Filed
University of Notre Dame Law Professor Gerard V. Bradley’s brief provides a succinct medical argument against vaccination of Joshua Nagel’s healthy, previously SARS-CoV-2-infected, 5- and 8-year-old daughters. The Nagel girls have been SARS-CoV-2 infected twice in the past ~year during January, and July, of 2022. Each time the girls were infected, they experienced either minimal symptoms, of brief duration, or were entirely asymptomatic. As Professor Bradley demonstrates, we now know those mild, self-limited SARS-CoV-2 infections confer a natural immunity to the virus that is more robust, and enduring vis-à-vis any which might result from covid-19 mRNA vaccination. Moreover, citing, and summarizing the published literature on covid-19 mRNA vaccine “risk/benefit” in children, particularly the data on vaccine-induced myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle), vis-à-vis, the extraordinarily low rate of serious covid-19 illness in children, the brief argues, “approximately 700 children will suffer permanent damage to their heart muscle cells to prevent one COVID-19 hospitalization. Over 2,000 will suffer such heart damage to prevent one severe hospitalization.”
Professor Bradley’s arguments are endorsed by 74 medical doctors, academic scientists, allied health professionals, and officers (past and present) of prestigious medical societies, including dozens of American pediatricians and family practitioners, joined by colleagues from the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Among these signatories are a former President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a pediatrician former president of the American Heart Association, and the former Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians, as well as Academic medical doctors from many universities, including Stanford, Brown, and Yale. As Professor Bradley observes,
“…each maintains a keen professional interest in the unfolding research into the efficacy of the COVID vaccines and the documented risks of taking them, especially among children. Their shared interest is seeing to it that any professional recommendation about vaccinating minors, especially but not only those who have natural immunity from previous infection, be made according to the best scientific research and clinical experience available.”
