Worried about the spread of the Omicron variant, some scientific experts have said that primary school children, aged between five and 11 years-old, must be vaccinated otherwise in-person teaching will inevitably face major disruptions next year. For example, Deepti Gurdasani, a Clinical Epidemiologist at Queen Mary University of London, points to data showing that Covid is spreading more quickly in younger age groups, therefore in-person teaching in primary schools will “not be feasible” if this age group remains unjabbed. The Guardian has the story.
Professor Peter Openshaw, a member of the Government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG), said that without vaccinating children there could be further huge disruption to education and that health concerns about infection now outweighed initial justified caution in extending vaccination to five to 11 year-olds.
“There was more uncertainty earlier. It’s now becoming clearer that vaccination is generally safe and that it’s better to be vaccinated than to be infected,” he said. “To my mind it’s clear: the safest option is to be vaccinated.”
Deepti Gurdasani, Clinical Epidemiologist and Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, said that schooling would “not be feasible” next year without extending the vaccination programme to primary school age groups. “There’s been no discussion of how we’re going to protect children in January when schools reopen,” she said…
Openshaw said that there is some evidence that Omicron is reproducing more efficiently in younger age groups, meaning that the vaccination of children could be especially important. It is not clear whether extending vaccination to primary school children would be able to happen quickly enough to affect the oncoming wave of cases, which is expected to peak early next year. But Openshaw added: “The ‘too late’ argument is not a good one. We’d always prefer to have done something three months ago. The second best time is now.”
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is currently reviewing data on Covid jabs for children over five as a “matter of urgency” and expected to give a recommendation if the U.K.’s medicine regulator gives the green light for vaccines to be administered to younger age groups. June Raine, Chief Executive of the MHRA, has said that it is “very likely” an assessment of whether to approve the Pfizer vaccine for children as young as five would be concluded before Christmas.
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MHRA tells the truth about what ADRs were expected:
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:506291-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0
6uild 6ack 6etter – first they killed Granny now they want the Grandchildren.
Biden, Johnson, Morrison, Turdeau, Ardern all parroting the same WEF slogan.
Openshaw is an idiot! He just doesn’t realise it.
…”it’s better to be vaccinated than to be infected,” he said. You obviously weren’t paying attention at the back. The vaccines are NOT stopping infections! Doh!
Much better that our kids get natural immunity from something that is only risky to a fraction of their age group. Look up Original Antigenic Sin, you bloody idiot and keep your nose out of our kids’ health which you obviously know nothing about.
How well are Pfizer paying you or your pet project anyway?
These people are child abusers and should receive the punishment that child abusers receive from other prison inmates.
They should be sacked and potentially have their membership of whatever institutions they’re in cancelled. They are undermining confidence in the whole lot, unfortunately.
So go and look at this VAERS report on a 5 year old in the good old USA
https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D8;jsessionid=D49C1892354D8883A3993DBCEF8B
They seriously want you to play this form of Russian roulette with your children?
Sourced from a tweet in this horror show of thousands of adverse vaccine events from people around the world
https://mobile.twitter.com/theysayitsrare
Am I living in a parallel universe? The lunatics have truly taken over the asylum.
They’ll vaxx the newborns and up.
Then guess what?
Nothing will change for the better.
Instead we will have immune deficient populations with no clear unvaxxed populations to show up their lies.
Also the vaxx companies will be paid historical amounts to have liability protection for killing people.
Those “scientists” can die in a ditch – hopefully.
Evil scum.
While the MSM condemns the use of ivermectin, the most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID free after promoting widespread use of the safe, proven medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches to covid spikes and prevents them from binding to ACE2. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Deepti Gurdasani, Clinical Epidemiologist and Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London said:
“There is uncertainty about omicron impact but the uncertainty is not about whether it will be severe – it’s about how severe. There’s no scenario where a variant doubling every 2-3 days in many countries, leading to hosp doubling each wk in Gauteng is going to be low impact.”
“I feel like there’s a train rushing towards us, and we’re just watching and waiting. I cannot for the life of me understand the complacency. When a variant is going to reach dominance in 2-3 wks time here, what are we waiting for to act?”
“Plan B has come v. late, and we are rolling out boosters, but we need urgent measures to contain transmission. Saying ‘work from home’ but ‘attend christmas parties and nativity plays’ make zero sense to me. And schools are the major area of spread. What are we doing about this?”
https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1468692256488103941
How old is this bint.. ten ??? Get out and see some real life love, and then come back with your scary stories. I wasn’t brought up in the woods to be scared by owls like you..
Do her parents know she is running loose?
Is there anybody on that panel of conflicted wankers, the JCVI, who will stand up to the Pharma shills at MHRA pressing to jab infants with this proven toxin?
Blood on the streets will be their fate unless this is stopped now, because the data on damage is now getting out there despite the murderers who control the MSM and social media trying their damnedest to suppress it.
Guardasani is a lecturere in Machine learning please see profile
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/whri/people/academic-staff/items/gurdasanideepti.html
She is involved with the Wellcome institute She has been heavily involved in Genome research in Africa . Which means undoubtedly the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation in there somewhere.
So I think her background and masters speak for itself
Its time we realised they are vaccinating us against something that is coming in the future. And when that arrives they will want to be able to say they did everything we could. They will therefore want to jab all kids, because they won’t want that on their conscience. This is not about this virus. They are lying. It is about something else, that they cannot tell us about. The story keeps changing too much.
The injections are about something else and that is depopulation and digital ID.
It’s starting again. major major propaganda on Omicron here in the UK now. Prepare for worst.
these are not ‘scientists’ they are just Gates’ Operatives.
Gates’ Grant Graspers
What kind of society is it that is willing to sacrifice children to protect so-called adults?
I’ll say to you what I said to smithey.. stop falling for the story.. you are just repeating their lies.. the little ones were always going to be in the firing line.. they’ve gone through everybody else..
Stop blaming this on old people.. the people pushing this murdered thousands of them of last year with ‘midazolam’. Its nothing to do with old people, and you posting the lie is prolonging the despicable lie.
The government and their handlers don’t give a f*ck about old or young, they are both being primed to die.. and that includes you and me..
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Spot on as usual 👌
Yes, it’s a different argument for every group. The old and vulnerable need protected from everyone so get imprisoned the hardest (and murdered by Midazolam if they have the temerity to become ill).
The NHS and care sector need mandatory jabs to keep their jobs.
Children need jabs to protect their teachers and granny.
The rest of us are just selfish and childish according to people like Jon Gaunt, because we are responsible for politicians reintroducing and prolonging restrictions.
Yep.. you got it..
Forced vaccination using whatever lies work.
Worry about the consequences of the pathogenic spike proteins swirling about in all your cells and the real reason they are there . That’s what this is about! The real virologists have been trying to warn us for 18 months what a disaster is awaiting us down the line! The Yellow Cards stats are just the canaries in the coal mine!
Mortality rates from all other cause will go through the roof over the next two years! Myocarditis – previously unknown i te age grou – we be common in the young.
Dare to think it…”depopulation”. we are in the hands of Globalist Eugenicists.
Quite a few have. Child sacrifice has been common throughout history.
makes you wonder eh?
“There was more uncertainty earlier. It’s now becoming clearer that vaccination is generally safe and that it’s better to be vaccinated than to be infected,” he said.
How many more times? The jabs don’t stop people from being infected!
And how can anyone with a modicum of integrity state that they are ‘generally safe’ in the absence of medium-to-long-term safety data?
Yeah.. I can confirm its safe.. trust me…
Maybe the jabs aren’t stopping this virus because they aren’t vaccinating against it. When the actual threat appears the reasons for their panic may become clear.
Seems to me that they want to hold everyone in society in a permanent state of readiness.
You think the actions of the last 20 months are those of people who care about our welfare?
No, they simply want to use the jabs for depopulation purposes.
The normal morals of society have been inverted. We are sacrificing children so that old people can eek out a few more months drooling in old people’s homes before dying anyway because, shock horror, that is what has always tended to happen to old people Covid or no Covid.
Spiking kids is not going to prevent it from spreading round care homes when it gets in (which it will) in any case.
Stop blaming this on old people.. the people pushing this murdered thousands of them of last year with ‘midazolam’. Its nothing to do with old people, and you posting the lie is prolonging the despicable lie.
The government and their handlers don’t give a f*ck about old or young, they are both being primed to die.. and that includes you.. WTFU..
!00% correct!
That is nonsense.
The old have died alone with Hancock’s lsarge stocks of midazolam. Their ‘carers’ have been sacked their relatives banned from visiting them. . None of the ‘old’ have demanded the young be sacrificed for them – which is a nonsense anyway.
It is the unprincipled Johnson and Javid who have exploited fear of the virus to unnecessarily force vaccinate the young – it is despicable. Young people have died after vaccination and the Government is 100% responsible!
Vaccinating children is ‘a necessity’ says French PM Monsieur Cuntex..
They are all at it.. suddenly children are responsible for infecting the nation with the deadly…………………………….. common cold!
Just a coincidence of course that injecting toxins into children is taking on a lock-step type roll out..
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Vaccinating-children-is-a-necessity-says-French-PM
My daughter’s brother in law developed symptoms and it was the children that were blamed for bringing it home from school! When my son and daughter in law developed symptoms they blamed their 4 year old for bringing it in from nursery! Even though my daughter-in-law is a paediatric consultant and has been seeing patients face to face in a hospital setting.
Midwifes demand unborn babies be vaccinated in the womb to protect them from last year’s strain of rebranded flu
Once again, quoting the Grauniad. Give it a rest FFS.
It’s useful to be aware of what the opposition viewpoint is – and as it’s the bedwetter’s journal the Guardian is probably the best place to see that.
Too late is not an excuse? How about not needed?
you know what else is spreading like wildfire among this age group? Colds, RSV, and bad football. Should we bad them from every being together to stop these since we don’t have vaccines for them?
Not scientists, witch doctators.
I went to a family do yesterday and there was a family member who is fairly senior within Child Services (not sure of the actual name) within the local council. She was saying that usually they see 3 or 4 child/youth suicides a year, now they see 2 or 3 a week. The ones committing suicide are generally the high achievers as they have lost hope in the future.
This is pure evil.
we’re sentencing our children to life not worth living. I will never forgive those who are pushing this agenda and those who are complying
This is so sad, my oldest doesn’t think she will be able to go to University because she is unvaccinated.
I’ve just made a FOI request to a local hospital after they kicked my uncle out in less than 24hrs after he had a stroke. They scared him with concerns about the number of people being admitted with covid symptoms.
So I’ve asked to know for the dates he was in there, how many people were admitted to the hospital with covid symptoms; the number of people who tested positive after arrival; the number of people who developed symptoms after arrival; the number of people treated for covid; and finally the hospital’s capacity for dealing with covid patients.
I asked for the same type of information exclusively concerning the MORONIC variant.
If, as I suspect will be the case, they come back to show there wasn’t a crisis, I will be making a formal complaint.
Stroke victims need support from anywhere between a few days and a few months. He was kicked out the hospital within a couple days.
My anger is off the scale.
please keep us updated J4mes
Breaking News! NHS Reform ……new name NHSS!
You need to know exactly who decided to ‘kick him out’. Demand to see all of the paperwork that was made at the hospital – unless they’ve already ‘lost’ it.
Professor Peter Openshaw, is a member of the Government’s (NERVTAG). Openshaw established the academic department of Respiratory Medicine on the St Mary’s Campus of Imperial College and created the Centre for Respiratory Infection – Wellcome Trust funded money.
He has made his living from the seasonal flu.
Deepti Gurdasani incorrectly predicted that, due to the delta variant hospitalisations would ‘reach 2-3 times the January peak’ in June 2021. She was out by a factor of 40.
She is a libtard.
June Raine, Chief Executive of the MHRA. Deep State.
At what point will parents realise the government machine wants to either kill or severely impair their children?
Welcome Trust- GAVI’s UK arm.
Johnson’s policy of administering a million boosters a day makes little sense. People are being coerced into accepting a vaccine that offers (at best) no more than short-term protection against a virus that causes only mild illness in the vast majority of cases. I have to conclude that Johnson’s announcement last night is essentially a publicity stunt. As for some of the people in the upper echelons of the medical establishment who are pushing hard for this policy, well, look at their political affiliations and also follow the money.
But why else might Johnson talk of booster needles going into arms like a sewing machine? Who is telling Johnson he has to get the boosters in? Why would they be doing that? Is it ‘just business’ – financial- or more sinister?
Every booster is yet another dose of a pathogenic synthetic Covid spike protein to work away reproducing themselves in your cells and stimulating your immune system into a full -on antibody reaction .
What else do the spike proteins do to the body apart from reducing the natural defensive immune response and not protect us from either contracting or transmitting the virus? For answers, see numerous papers and videos by the world’s most qualified and respected virologists – who are to say at the very least “very unhappy” ( to put it mildly – in fact alarmed and outraged ) by what is going on .
Meanwhile, Japan, looking after its citizens and their rights, is banning discrimination between the vaccinated and unvaccinated, putting ‘heath warnings’ against myocarditis on the vaccines and requiring ‘fully informed consent’ from the individual before they can be administered. Japan also allows us of ivermectin.
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I read that headline and then I looked through these tweets.
https://mobile.twitter.com/theysayitsrare
Wow! For how much longer can they keep a lid on this?
For as long as sheep bleat and the bought-out Media can hold the line and stir the fear with more lies – A . Neil has now done his bit to stoke hysteria and hatred – unbelievable venom in the Daily Mail! (soon to be renamed “Der Stürmer”.