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Covid Vaccines for Children Would Not Be Approved before Full Investigation in Normal Times, Says Government Advisor

by Michael Curzon
18 September 2021 12:02 PM

These – undoubtedly – aren’t normal times. If they were, the Covid vaccine would not have been approved for healthy children until it had been fully investigated, says Professor Adam Finn. He adds that parents are justified in waiting until more is understood about the risks of vaccinating children before getting their teenagers ‘jabbed’. The Times has the story.

Professor Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, says that in normal times, the vaccine would not have been recommended for widespread use in children until the long-term consequences of rare side effects had been fully investigated.

Parents are justified in waiting until the risks are clearer before getting their teenagers vaccinated and the NHS needs to spell out the uncertainty over long-term effects better, he argues on this page.

He fears that if some children eventually suffer lifelong health risks without being told of known concerns, trust in other vaccination programmes and wider Government health advice will be undermined. …

Given the huge uncertainty over the extent of the risks, Finn, professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol, is concerned that parents and children have not fully understood the concerns that gave the JCVI pause and led to months of agonising over whether children should be offered the jab.

Finn insists that doctors need to be transparent about the “extremely uncommon” risks. He says that expert disagreement over possible side effects “cannot be an argument to downplay important information or to present the evidence as clearly pointing only in one direction when it doesn’t”.

An NHS leaflet to be given to children says only that “most people [suffering heart inflammation] recovered and felt better following rest and simple treatments”.

Writing with Guido Pieles, the consultant cardiologist who advised the JCVI, Finn explains that U.S. cardiologists are seeing signs of scarring in the hearts of otherwise healthy teenagers who suffer rare post-vaccine inflammation.

While they say that it is “perfectly possible that these changes will resolve completely over time”, they warn that such scarring is known to carry a risk of “life-threatening arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest”.

As coronavirus vaccines are so new, it is not yet known if the same serious long-term dangers will result. However Finn and Pieles said that “in normal times a rare, new and poorly understood process of this kind would be painstakingly studied over a longer period before any decisions were made”.

Given the pandemic, they acknowledge that many believe “we currently don’t have the luxury of time for more evidence”, making it much harder to issue authoritative advice.

Finn and Pieles suggest that parents consider waiting six months or so until the longer-term consequences of heart changes start to become clear, saying: “This is not a decision that needs to be rushed, and choosing to wait for more evidence is perfectly legitimate.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Adam FinnChildrenJCVISide-effectsVaccine

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Green Billionaires Fund Corrupt Politicians 

latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online. 

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Baldrick
Baldrick
1 year ago

“‘If masks don’t work, why do surgeons wear them?’” presumably to reassure people or because it has always been done. May help with sneezes I guess? Blood splatter is another one I have heard. But the evidence is that there is no difference between post surgery infections, so probably not. If you are that ill then you should stay at home. Simple. A bit of a sniffle will just pass on infection around the community and build up community immunity. The other thing is the covid test- people get ill and say “oh it is alright- it’s not covid” (or is it COVID to scare people?). As if flu or one of the respiratory viruses don’t matter any more!

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  Baldrick

Or perhaps personal protection, along with eye protection, when working close to certain things, e.g. a dentist working on you.

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ELH
ELH
1 year ago
Reply to  Baldrick

I’d understood it is to stop bits of the surgeon (sweat, saliva) falling on the patient and bits of the patient (spurts of blood or other fluids) covering the surgeon and other people in the operating theatre and there is a study somewhere which says infection rates are the same in operating theatres with and without mask wearing. (Also remember we watch a lot of telly and a lot of medical drama are not always accurate.)

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago
Reply to  Baldrick

Reading the article first would have helped.
It/a surgeon gives all the answers, aka debunks Covid masking and all the masktards.
As of 2021, so to no avail.
As such, it is obvious that this masking craze never had anything to do with public or ones own health, to the contrary.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

‘….back in 2008, Keir Starker voluntarily defended the extremist group’

Starker’s second name is Rodney……

Rodney Starkers it is then………

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Nah. Call him Sir Keir. It has several good things going for it:

1) It’s accurate and formal.
2) It alienates some socialists from him.
3) I understand it drives him nuts.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Sirkir sounds like a name from the sun-continent. But think if the fun an imaginative comedian or political opponent could have by referencing Rodney in Only fools and horses.

Which of his front bench would be Del Boy, which Grandad and which Charlene.

Last edited 1 year ago by EppingBlogger
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Charlene? Oh that’s Ranting. She’s a shoe-in.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Okay, his full name shall be Sir Kneelalot Beer Rodney Starkers-Korma.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

I am rather fond of Kneel.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago

“One insider’s damning verdict on ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells: ‘over-promoted’ and ‘dim’”

This is a key problem and is an essential tool of the elites toolkit. DEI, coupled with ESG, all but guarantees that unsuitable people will be promoted to positions of high influence (if not all-out control). These people are then easily manipulated into doing what the elites want them to do, simply by pushing an agenda that the unsuitable people don’t have the mental capacity or courage to push back on. Incompetence by design.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Yes 👏👍

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

“Britain has punished piracy prominently for 300 years.”

That’s not what the Spanish say.

So I guess it depends on the definition of “piracy”, “Britain” and “punished”.

Last edited 1 year ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
1 year ago

“‘If masks don’t work, why do surgeons wear them?’”

To stop snot which is clumps of bacteria held together by mucous falling from the surgeons nose into a surgical field or open wound. It’s not brain surgery.

Last edited 1 year ago by Boomer Bloke
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MichaelM
MichaelM
1 year ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

Unless it is, of course…

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“If Masks Don’t Work, Why Do Surgeons Wear Them?”
To prevent bacterial infection in a patient during open surgery

(Not viruses!)

People who work with viruses Wear hazmat!

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

Kier Starmer practising for new government child policies!

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“Parental license: the Left’s new child-snatchers” – In Taki’s Magazine, Steven Tucker discusses an academic article by a PhD student arguing that children should be removed from parents who hold politically incorrect opinions.

I was looking at the date of the academic article to see if it was published on 1 April.

Surely this was published as a wind-up?

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“The Post Office scandal is proof we trust technology too much” – In the Telegraph, Andrew Orlowski explores our tendency to trust computers more than our own experiences.

I used to run IT for a small international company. Among the many ‘humourous’ quips the IT folk exchanged with the rest of our colleagues were:

1) Don’t anthropomorphize the computer – they hate that.
2) TIOATIOA (turn it off and turn it on again).
3) Computers are really stupid. They’re so stupid they do exactly what they’ve been programmed to do.

The last point being particularly apposite to the Horizon fiasco.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago

“Revealed: the nine universities where gender-critical academics are labelled ‘transphobic’”

Only 9? I thought it was a requirement at all of them these days…

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/15/fujitsu-post-office-scandal-proof-trust-technology-too-much/

What a cheap bit of deflection. Crozier and Vennells were the problem. They failed in their jobs. Fujitsu should have been taken to court not the postmasters.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/smokescreens-part-11-5cd

No Professor Heneghan we do NOT need tests for the illusory C1984 and ‘flu. Three reasons:

1. We do not want to embed a testing culture in this country.
2. The country cannot afford the costs of the tests.
3. So what?

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