Dr Helen Westwood, a GP whose previous letters and comments have appeared on Lockdown Sceptics, wrote to her MP Sir Graham Brady in March with some concerns about the vaccines and the potential for coercion. She has now received a reply from Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi that is far from reassuring.
Here’s what she wrote.
Dear Sir Graham,
Firstly I wish to thank you again for your ongoing hard work in arguing for a more proportionate response to dealing with COVID-19. The concerns I wish to raise with you today relate to the vaccination program and the proposition of vaccination certificates.
As you know I am a GP. I am horrified by the talk of ‘No Jab, No Job’ policies and vaccination certificates.
The GMC are very clear that “all patients have the right to be involved in decisions about their treatment and care” and that “doctors must be satisfied that they have a patient’s consent… before providing treatment or care”. They also state “doctors must… share relevant information about the benefits and harms of proposed options and reasonable alternatives, including the option to take no action”.
Following interim analysis of the ongoing clinical trials, emergency use authorisation has been granted by the MHRA for both the Pfizer BioNTech and the AstraZeneca vaccines. They are as yet unlicensed. The clinical trials are due to continue until 2023. I find it alarming that much attention is paid to the headline figures of relative risk reduction (RRR) with no mention of the absolute risk reduction (ARR). The RRR of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is 95.1% (CI 90.0%-97.6%, p=0.016). Dig a little deeper into the data and you learn that the ARR is only 0.7% (CI 0.59%-0.83%, p<0.001) and the number needed to vaccinate in order to prevent one infection is 142 (CI 122-170).
The WHO published a bulletin written by John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, in October 2020. He quotes an infection fatality rate (IFR) for Covid of 0.00-0.57% and in those under the age of 70 it stands at 0.05%.
Given the minimal risk healthy people under the age of 70 face, and the very small absolute risk reductions noted in the clinical trials, I have to ask why are we so desperate to vaccinate the whole population? For healthy, working age people Covid poses less of a risk than seasonal flu. It has never been proposed that we vaccinate the entire adult population against flu; we target the populations most at risk.
The speed at which these vaccines have been developed is truly remarkable. However, I have grave concerns that they are being rolled out on such a scale and at such pace. I am not sure whether you are familiar with the work of Joel Smalley MBA (a member of HART) but he has done some very interesting analysis of mortality data. Whilst correlation (between vaccination administration and rises in mortality) absolutely does not mean causation, the striking patterns he has highlighted suggest to me that now is the time to pause and reflect on the data we have so far. We know from the clinical trials that the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine causes a drop in lymphocytes around seven days post administration; theoretically at least this could pose a risk of intercurrent infection, especially in frail patients.
Both vaccines in current use in England employ novel technology, namely mRNA (Pfizer BioNTech) and Adenovirus vector (AZ). Human challenge studies have only recently begun. We do not currently know anything about the medium and long term safety of these vaccines. There are concerns about Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) reactions whereby vaccinated individuals may develop more severe disease upon exposure to the wild virus. Theoretical concerns have also been raised about potential cross reactivity with Syncytin-1 which could have effects on placental development and therefore fertility. Until these areas have been studied we cannot advise patients fully. This has significant implications for the informed consent process.
There seems to be some enthusiasm for “vaccination passports” among the population, whether for domestic use or international travel. These have been compared to Yellow Fever certificates that are required for individuals travelling to certain destinations. In reality there is no comparison. The mortality rate for Yellow Fever is in the region of 30%, transmission of Yellow Fever is confined to a relatively small number of countries and there are long term safety data available regarding the licensed vaccine.
Uptake of the Covid vaccine has been notably lower amongst certain ethnic minorities. The reasons for this are as yet unclear, but any policy requiring proof of vaccination has the potential to lead to indirect discrimination.
Professor Chris Whitty has said that doctors and care workers have a “professional responsibility” to get vaccinated. Given that reduction of transmission is not an outcome that is being measured in the clinical trials that are still ongoing, I do not agree with him. Article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights states: “Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice.”
On November 4th 2020 Theresa May MP made a speech in the House of Commons. She was referring to the closure of places of worship when she said, “My concern is that the Government today making it illegal to conduct an act of public worship, for the best of intentions, sets a precedent that could be misused by a Government in future with the worst of intentions, and that has unintended consequences.” I fear the same could be said for the introduction of vaccination passports.
Personally I have declined this vaccine because of the concerns outlined above. I hope this decision does not mean I am unable to work, visit a restaurant or travel.
Yours sincerely,Dr Helen Westwood
Here is Nadhim Zahawi’s response, passed on to Dr Westood by Sir Graham Brady.


This is how Dr Westwood replied this week.
Dear Sir Graham,
Thank you for sending me the letter you received from Nadhim Zahawi MP, Minister for Business and Industry & Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment in response to the representations you made to him on my behalf. I have attached his letter and my original email.
I must say I find his responses entirely unsatisfactory. He has failed to address any of my concerns. I know he is an intelligent man, so I can only assume that he has been deliberately disingenuous rather than not understanding the questions posed.
I am already aware of the processes involved in the development and testing of new drugs. I understand that Phases 2 and 3 are usually run sequentially but, given the urgency of this situation, a pragmatic decision was taken to run them in parallel. For elderly patients at increased risk from COVID-19 infection I can understand this approach. However, when the program is being rolled out to younger, healthy individuals whose risk-benefit ratio is entirely different, an alternative approach is required. It is imperative that individuals are not exposed to a greater risk of harm undergoing a medical intervention than the risk of not doing anything. Primum non nocere. Since my original email, significant concerns have been raised in a number of European countries about the risk of rare cerebral venous sinus thromboses associated with thrombocytopenia. Young, fit, healthy people who were at negligible risk of COVID-19 have tragically died.
Mr Zahawi has elected not to make any comment on the concerns I raised regarding rises in mortality in the immediate post-vaccination period. This is a pattern that has been repeated in multiple locations, currently most notably in India. I would like to know what research is being done by the UK Government to investigate this.
I note that Mr Zahawi referred to the fact that the UK “currently operates a system of informed consent for vaccinations”. I have two concerns regarding this statement. Firstly, how is the consent fully informed if we do not know the answers to the questions I have raised? I know from first hand experience that individuals attending for Covid vaccinations are not routinely being informed that the clinical trials are ongoing until 2023. Nor is the potential issue of antibody dependent enhancement being discussed. The advice for vaccinating pregnant women changes virtually day by day. Secondly, why does he need to use the word “currently”? Are there plans for mandatory vaccination in future? Already there are discussions about making vaccination compulsory for care home workers. In September 2019 the Guardian reported that Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock was seriously considering making vaccinations compulsory for state school pupils. I defy anyone not to find this proposal chilling.
With regard to black, Asian and minority ethnic populations, again Mr Zahawi seems to have entirely missed my point. I was not arguing for the prioritisation of these groups; I was pointing out that uptake in these groups has been lower and therefore any certification system has the potential to lead to indirect discrimination.
I agree with Mr Zahawi that an effective vaccine is an excellent way to protect those that need protection, but it also needs to be safe. Given his failure to address the concerns I raised I can only assume he does not have answers to my questions.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Helen Westwood
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This is because it’s a bioweapon.
I have posted repeatedly on here that these injections have been brewed to specific recipes. Big pharma have been preparing these juices for years and they know exactly the outcomes that will manifest over the next sixty months or so.
Depopulation.
Craig Paardekooper did excellent analysis of VAERS:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CB49QokMgGV5/
https://rumble.com/vsc59t-they-labelled-the-crime-demographic-depopulation-mirrored.html
Pfizer was very intentional with the way it released batches which were responsible for much higher counts of adverse reactions. Moderna appears to have distributed them randomly in time.
And obviously, for the new folks here, bear in mind that VAERS (like UK’s Yellow Card) under-reports massively.
An excellent review of the fraud in the clinical trials has been carried out by Sasha Latypova for bother Moderna & Pfizer.
Remember, where there is fraud there is ZERO immunity from prosecution
Her research is invaluable.
https://home.solari.com/review-of-pfizers-non-clinical-program-by-sasha-latypova/
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/modernas-non-clinical-summary-for-spikevax-evidence-of-scientific-and-regulatory-fraud-fd53b4f7#_ftn4
Indeed. That is where literally all of the evidence has been pointing.
Indeed. The GOF Wuhan virus was bad enough already, but apparently not bad enough for the powers that be. No, that was just a warmup, and they had to up the ante even further with the real bioweapon–the jabs.
There were papers last year that suggested the same thing.
And a UK study last year showed that 1 in 100 vaccinated people (380,000) received hospital attention for cardiac arrythmia. I believe around 9,000 of that number had also had Covid but the majority had not. At the time the study authors were remarkably quiet about the arrythmia as their focus was on myocarditis.
The normal rate of arrythmia seen in hospitals is 1 in 400.
which arrhythmia? There are several:
Supraventricular tachycardia
Atrial fibrillation
Brugada
Long QT
Short QT
bradycardia
tachycardia
Ventricular Fibrillation
Ventricular tachycardia
Ectopic beats
The rate of atrial fibrillation alone is 1% worldwide increasing to 9% in the older population.
SVT is 0.2% generally and 0.4% in children.
FFS we have known this since February 2021.
Yes yes yes but The Experts need time to check these things, A Y M!
The lag is insufferable.
The purpose of the lag is to bore people to death.
By the time the experts validate the obvious, the sheep have moved on to the next pseudo crisis.
Im not sure there will ever be a watershed awakening.
May 2020?
True. I’m referring to the spike used in the vaccine but I stand corrected as we knew the action of the virus was on ACE2 receptors back in early 2020.
Apologies.
It becomes more and more clear that “enhanced function” was a corruption of medical science. It was closer to germ warfare than preventative medicine and should not have been engaged in so carelessly
Those people who were so keen to promote these programmes were ingratiating themselves with the CCP and received life changing amount sof money for it. Doubts expressed by parets of theb US bureaucracy were by-passed.
We do not know if the rest of the west was involved or aware but US bureaucrats have a great deal to answer for.
The CCP clearly has most to account for. It shares equal responsibility for doiung the dangerous research but added and fundamental responsibilitry for carelessness in its labs and for its failure to be candid with the rest of the world.
Last but by no means least, the UN agencies and their clients in national bureaucracies carry the stain of economic shock and depradation with the social damage of lockdowns. They can never recover from this and future national governments, unstained by the ridiculous adherence to their nonesensical advice, will have to cut loose or suffer again in then polls.
Looks like #SpikeSickness is real. Remember when it was just a “conspiracy theory”?
As Chris Morrison says on the Climate Change editorials, to get your paper published you have to state you support the narrative in the summary section. Perhaps researchers on COVID “vaccines” are using the same trick. Spot the inserted oxymoronic sentence:
“Our data show that the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 causes heart muscle damage. That’s why it’s important to get vaccinated and prevent this disease.”
It’s a clear non sequitur, even if helps them to have it published. On the contrary to their recommendation, it appears that the pharmaceutical design is flawed, to the extent that the product can cause injury in some cases.
The pharmaceutical design is NOT flawed. The injections have been designed to maim and kill and that is what they are doing.
“It is baffling why Dr. Lin would suggest vaccination protects against the spike protein harm he has described when it introduces spike protein into the body and is also known not to prevent infection.”
No, it is not just baffling.
He is either a completely ignorant id*ot, who should therefore definetely have his medical license revoked, or, more likely and like the AHA, which publishes such sh*te, a fully paid-up aka totally corrupted member of Team CCP Science.
I would have ruled out the former until last week, when I read an article at reitschuster about various German doctors responses to vaxx disability claims made at a health insurance, which a whistleblower there then leaked.
The standout story I remember was that one neurologist stated that she had no concerns at all to give the mRNA goo to the now disabled immuno-compromised person, because it was just a totally normal, regular, inactivated vaccine (Totimpfstoff), the safest form of all.
I am constantly amazed by (1) the stupidity of supposedly clever people (2) their absolute belief in their own intelligence, and the certainty of the nonsense assumptions they hold in their pea brains.
Midwits. Scary people.
Ignorance and stupidity are all around us. That German neurologist is a fine example.
Interesting that our superb genetic engineers chose the most dangerous part of the “virus” as the desired goal for the mRNA platform.
Unfortunately to make it work parts of the immune system have to be “deregulated” – aka switched off – with entirely unknown consequences.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
I wonder if the MHRA are aware of the paper and similar.
But then again, when it comes to liquid nanoparticles with modified gene sequences (aka vaccines) they seem to be enablers as opposed to safety checkers. What an excellent job the erstwhile bigphama bigshot June Rain is doing.
That woman is criminally negligent. I think she needs arresting and putting on trial.
As I observed below: it appears that the pharmaceutical design is flawed, to the extent that the product can cause injury in some cases.
Look up Jesse Gelsingers story. This was real gene therapy, a human adenovirus was modified to correct a genetic deficiency. Jesse was part of the trial, but should not have undergone treatment as he fell outside the trial criteria. However, for whatever reason he was accepted and underwent treatment, that had appeared to work in monkeys. The end result is that Jesse developed a clotting disorder and ARDS, he was ventilated, but he was too far gone and died aged 18 from what is believed to be a cytokine storm.
Ultimately this was down to hubris on the part of those running the trials.
Search for:
“Prolonged metabolic correction in adult ornithine transcarbamylase-deficient mice with adenoviral vectors.”
“Assessment of Adenoviral Vector Safety and Toxicity: Report of the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee”also read
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/10430340152712629
Another phase 1 trial but here in the U.K., search for
“Cytokine storm in a phase-1 trial of the anti-CD28 monoclonal antibody TGN1412.”
“When Science goes wrong” by Simon LeVay is worth reading, particularly chapter 6, even though it’s 14 years old.
“‘Informed consent’ is really a figure of speech. No layperson can truly evaluate the potential risks and benefits of participating in a clinical trial, least of all the trial of a genetically engineered virus. To some extent, signing a consent form is a confession of faith – faith that the researchers have done their homework and that the experimental protocol has been adequately reviewed by experts.”
From “When science goes wrong” by Simon LeVay chapter 6
Do be careful, sharing such documents will get you silenced on Social Media!
Which must be worn as a badge of honour these days! Well done.
Has any other known respiratory virus been observed to cause cardiac damage to any significant degree?
Possibly SARS-CoV or MERS-CoV as these also use ACE2 receptors. I am not sure why this study used the common cold coronavirus, MERS is still around and may have been a better comparison as it is probably closer to SARS-CoV-2. Also the common cold coronavirus may have been the causative pathogen of the Russian “flu” in the late 19th century, but we cannot know what effects the alpha version had. Also, we cannot know what effects the “Spanish” flu had in 1918-1919. Do clinicians look for a connection between influenza and heart arrhythmia/damage? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167527308006293
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.570681/full
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.548156
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/214982
As I understand it, covid/ Sars 2 is more a disease of the cardio vascular system.
This is well worth a look:-
file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/COVID-19-The-Spartacus-Letter-V2-2021-09-28.pdf
This was initially done over a year ago and was trashed by the usual experts but a lot of it has proven to be accurate – (although admittedly the trans human bits even I feel are a bit far fetched.)
To self. The link no worky.
Instead google “The I Spartacus Letter”, you’ll get there – eventually….
https://restoreliberty.us/images/Documents/covid-19-the-spartacus-letter-pdf.pdf
Coxasackie B virus is normally transmitted by the orofaecal route, but can be transmitted in droplets. This is a known cardiotropic virus.
Parvovirus 19 is also cardiotropic and is passed through the respiratory route.
So what did the ‘gain of function’ research change in this coronavirus? Why isn’t investigating this No1 priority? If this was an aviation accident then discovering that there was research going on that involved tampering with a virus would have focused scrutiny as a priority.
The biggest problem with studies like this is there appears to be no stratification on sex, age or ethnicity, all of which can have an impact on disease trajectory.
Prof Bhakdi explained a long time ago (late 2020/early 2021) that the spike protein in the jabs was dangerous and would cause blood clots.
The full title of the paper is
”P3119 / P3119 – Selectively Expressing Sars-Cov-2 Spike Protein S1 Subunit In Cardiomyocytes Induces Cardiac Hypertrophy In Mice”https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_ga=2.20234353.830393425.1658915221-997339422.1654247768#!/10610/presentation/422
Of mice and men https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2012.00296/full
And mRNA technology having been around and experimented with in Humans for years, nobody doing research and in the pharmaceutical companies knew this, the dangers… we are to believe?
The theory behind the Pfizer version is fairly sound for positive sense single strand RNA viruses. A +ssRNA virus is it’s own mRNA, and replicates in the cytoplasm, the vaccine contains a shortened sequence of +ssRNA that codes for the spike, albeit modified. This will also replicate in the cytoplasm. Antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 are created against the spike to prevent the virus from gaining access into cells.
The AstraZeneca vaccine uses modified adenovirus which has to enter the nucleus, inside the nucleus mRNA is created and passes into the cytoplasm for replication.
Therefore, the AstraZeneca vaccine is probably technically more of an mRNA vaccine than the Pfizer.
A ‘professor’ who is capable of highlighting the serious irreversible cardiac damage the SARS-CoV 2 spike protein can do but then telling you in the same breath to mitigate against this by stuffing your body with more spike protein is pretty much as bought and paid for as you can get. The banality (and absurdity) of evil..
“but the NL63 spike protein did not.” Would you expect a human coronavirus to cause problems in a murine cardiovascular system?