A group of 30 MPs, peers, doctors and scientists – including MPs Miriam Cates, Graham Stringer and Sir Desmond Swayne and scientists Professor Allyson Pollock, Professor David Livermore and Professor Anthony Brookes – have written again to the JCVI calling for the Covid vaccination programme in healthy under-16s to be paused pending further studies, arguing that the evidence the benefits outweigh the risks is lacking.
The group first wrote to the Government vaccine advisory committee in early January to raise their concerns and received a reply on January 20th from Professor Wei Shen Lim, COVID-19 Chair of the JCVI. He disputed the relevance of the recent study showing that myocarditis risk following vaccination in young males is higher than previously thought, and argued the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Omicron as a milder and vaccine-evading variant are not necessarily decisive as further variants may emerge. He also stated that the JCVI’s advice regarding the primary course of vaccination did not predetermine its advice regarding further ‘booster’ doses – apparently not being concerned about logical coherence, in that recommending boosters when a primary course is not recommended would defy sense.
The authors found this response very inadequate and have now set out in a reply why the JCVI must take seriously the evidence on risk and lack of benefit for this age group. Their letter is published in full below, beneath the letter from Prof. Lim to which they are replying.
Response to Professor Wei Shen Lim
February 2022
Dear Professor Wei Shen Lim,
Thank you for your response to our letter of January 7th. We are concerned that you still appear to be supporting the COVID-19 vaccine rollout for healthy children, who are most unlikely to suffer any significant illness from the virus, without reassessing benefits and harms in light of new evidence.
The child vaccination programme seems to be ineffective in reducing infection and transmission and, among other as-yet-unknown possible adverse effects, is associated with a risk of myocarditis – a serious condition, known in other cases to have a significant impact on lifelong morbidity and mortality.
Regarding comments concerning variants
Risk-benefit analyses are usually considered in the present, as this is where the decision is made. What is known of Omicron is that it is highly contagious but clinically milder. Therefore, post-infection or natural immunity will be acquired far faster across the population, further reducing the clinical usefulness of the vaccines in preventing infection and transmission. Indeed, it is known from a number of studies (two examples here and here) that natural immunity appears to be more robust than vaccine-induced immunity. A high number, perhaps the majority, of U.K. children are likely to have had COVID-19, so are well protected by natural immunity, and this is a number that is likely to be increasing all the time. This again begs the question as to why the JCVI has not reassessed the benefit-to-risk ratio of the child vaccination programme in light of the Omicron variant. Present understanding of respiratory viruses tells us that subsequent variants are highly likely to be milder rather than more severe in their clinical manifestation. We have no reason to suspect that SARS-CoV-2 will defy this evolutionary principle. Children will also almost certainly have broader immunity against future variants from Omicron infection, compared to vaccine-induced immunity from current vaccines, which were developed to an earlier variant spike protein no longer in common circulation. When all that is now known is considered within the previous JCVI criteria, the benefit of the vaccine reduces further. The risks, however, remain unchanged or are increasing as new adverse events following vaccination are recognised.
Regarding comments concerning myocarditis
We refer here to data from Hong Kong and Israel. In Hong Kong, the myocarditis rate was one in 2,680 using the Comirnarty (Pfizer) vaccine (not Moderna) in male 12-17 year-olds.
In Israel, rates were one in 6,637 in 16-19 year-old males after the Pfizer vaccine.
This issue is therefore highly relevant to the U.K. situation, with mid-late teenage males at higher risk of myocarditis. Of note, a U.S. study indicated a high rate of gadolinium enhancement in mRNA vaccine-associated myocarditis, consistent with myocardial scarring and long-term damage.
The lower reporting rate in the U.K. may reflect the lack of a formal study of this age group, and the suggestion that a longer interval between first and second doses could reduce the risk is speculative. In view of the concerns raised in the original JCVI review, it is remarkable that a formal study, with serial troponin monitoring, as well as serial cardiac assessments, in post-vaccinated males in this age group, with an appropriate control group, is not yet available.
Myocarditis is only one of the now proven adverse effects of these vaccines. Does the JCVI not agree that when adding in the unknown long-term harms (especially relevant for the young, with many years of healthy life expectancy ahead of them) the risk of the vaccine now exceeds the risk of the virus for the majority of children?
Regarding primary course and boosters
The sole purpose of vaccinating children ‘not in a clinical risk group’ would appear to be to reduce community transmission. Current data from the U.K. Health Security Agency (HSA) and Public Health Scotland are highly inconsistent with reduced transmission through vaccination overall, with a trend of relative increase in the ratio of vaccinated infection versus unvaccinated infection over time. This trend, and data elsewhere showing rapidly waning vaccine efficacy against infection with the Omicron (and Delta) variants over time, raise a very strong probability that vaccine efficacy will follow a similar pattern in teenagers. The UKHSA trend over time has been consistent with waning efficacy in higher age groups, corresponding to the prior time of vaccination of those age groups. This would remove all theoretical benefits of vaccinating healthy children.
Conclusion
In view of the above, the concerns raised in the original letter have not been addressed. Further, we find it genuinely remarkable that, given the prior JCVI concerns, formal studies have not been put in place during the rollout in these age groups with acknowledged limited benefit and significant knowledge gaps regarding safety.
The further data on myocarditis, the clear evidence of far lower risk and high rate of mild infection with the Omicron variant, and the evidence of waning vaccine efficacy in older age groups must all push the risk-benefit ratio previously discussed by the JCVI strongly in the direction of further risk and lesser benefit to children. Does the JCVI agree that the benefit-to-risk ratio is now reduced further, compared to when it previously advised against recommending the mass vaccination of healthy 12-15 year-olds?
What is the urgency to vaccinate healthy children at this time? Pausing the current vaccine programme in children would allow time to undertake the necessary research which would resolve the difficulties affecting the current decision making. The JCVI is tasked with the responsibility of considering vaccine safety and efficacy and as such every effort should be made to assess both safety and efficacy of a new vaccine in the early stages of its deployment, especially for children and young people.
Yours sincerely,
Miriam Cates MP
Thomas Coke, the Earl of Leicester
Richard Drax MP
Baroness Foster of Oxton
Baroness Fox
Marcus Fysh MP
Paul Girvan MP
Chris Green MP
Mark Jenkinson MP
Pauline Latham MP
Karl McCartney MP
Lord Moonie
Baroness Morrissey
Greg Smith MP
Graham Stringer MP
Sir Desmond Swayne MP
Sammy Wilson MP
Dr David Bell, Public Health Physician, formerly working on infectious diseases for the WHO
Professor Anthony Brookes, Genomics and Health Data Scientist, University of Leicester
Professor Norman Fenton, Risk Information Management, Queen Mary University of London
Dr Iona Heath CBE, president of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2009 to 2012)
Professor Marilyn James, Health Economics, University of Nottingham
Dr John Lee, Retired Professor of Pathology
Professor David Livermore, Medical Microbiology, University of East Anglia
Dr Aseem Malhotra, Consultant Cardiologist
Professor David Paton, Industrial Economics, University of Nottingham
Professor Allyson Pollock, Clinical Professor of Public Health, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University
Dr Gerry Quinn, Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster
Dr Roland Salmon, MRCGP, FFPH, former Director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (Wales)
Professor Brent Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Community Child Health, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
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what a theatre ! What circus !! Out outrageously reprehensible!! The school have just injected the under 16s in schools with the second dose & all the dames journalists , mps The lot of them shut up about it & now this ??? They’ve know this all along and now nothing no amount of backpedaling will or should exonerate these hypocrites
Children have had two years of their lives stolen by Bunter and his regime aided and abetted by criminal scientists.
Now they want to inject them with muck that neither prevents infection or transmission and has caused at least 2,000 officially acknowledged deaths.
Bunter, Whitless, Unbalanced, Satanic Jabber and Fishy Nicknack should all be locked up in the nonce wing of a Category A prison.
When the health m8jister of Israel admits to four jabs now causing IMMUNE EROSION. It is time to stop these deadly injections. For those who don’t know, you cannot live without an intact immune system!
Could you clarify whether the Professor has any conflicts of interests which might lead him to push for more vaccination?
The JCVI will just shrug it off and say they disagree.
Desmond Swanye he speaks well he is anti lockdown and stands up for our civil liberties yet foolishly supports the vaccine not a proper vaccine but probably never heard of the Yellow card scheme and has had two Covid jabs himself still a very good man though.
What is sad is so many parents agree with giving their children Genre Therapy though their is no real evidence that thousands of children have died in the UK or healthy children are at risk of serve illness from Covid , and children have to protect Granny at all cost , they must sacrifice their childhood, and some I have seen as young as eight or six are wearing masks , I see it on the tube about four children and their mum and dad were all masked Middle Eastern . I also saw a teenage boy sitting in Cafe Nero wearing a mask the whole time only removed it once to speak on the phone , this was last week Monday
no law to wear it in cafes coffee shops yet he wore it the whole time aged about 16 no risk not obese yet sat masked this is not normal, in places like Muswell Hill Crouch End people wear them outside in the fresh air young old thin fat , if parents are vaxxed it protects them not anyone it only lasts five months that is why it must be topped up they left it out our… Read more »
Rather late to the party, aren’t they? We were saying this nearly a year ago.
TBH, this smacks more of (the ‘experts’) them changing their tune because the wind of public opinion is obviously changing direction, rather like in the US and Canada with their leftist so-called ‘leaders’ stopping mask mandates and some even with the COVID passports because of the clap-back from the public.
So much for ‘The Science’, which has not changed, but the rhetoric has.
While they’ve got the kids in the jabbatoir, to get a useless and dangerous injection for the highly dubious benefit of other people, why don’t they go the whole hog and harvest an organ or two? Chop out a kidney, or gouge out an eye? The welfare of the children is plainly of no concern, so let them be really useful.
On the one hand we want to feel united against the corporate air-conditioned nightmare and yet on the other the elders of our tribe are perfectly happy to sacrifice the young. When you have reached this point as a society then you know that you are doomed.Intelligence agencies western and eastern well understand that neurotic fear of death is a major weakness in western societies.Sort it out or die.
Do you remember the early reports of people testing positive for HIV after getting covid? And I assume the vaxxed will also test positive because of the HIV segment in the spike genome.
https://www.goyimtv.tv/v/3345996887/Dr-Richard-Fleming-shows-the-HIV-inserts-to-the-S-Spike-Protein-
Montagnier identified 18 HIV fragments in the spike. 590 amino acids matching HIV1.
WTF is going on? Now they want to test everyone for HIV?
Just got home to this. See if you can count the number of lies and misleading statements in it. I make it 6. Re the article, they won’t stop because to do so would be to acknowledge the harm they’ve already done. What are we living through?
This is a pivotal point in history. Corruption that has been hidden for decades is now obvious. We move to a different (better?) future.
I swear not to tell the whole truth, just a bit of it, and a few lies as well to spice it up.
Try that on in Court if you’re a witness! Do they really believe in what they’re doing?
TBH the only use of this bit of paper is to use it in the smallest room in the house
https://t.me/s/robinmg
Subject: Cascade from GP Bulletin Extra – 09 February 2022
Antivax campaigners visiting practices – advice and guidance
A number of practices have had individuals arriving on site and attempting to ‘serve’ legal documents on practices. These documents and similar emails from a Yorkshire based law firm called Broad Yorkshire Law are examples of a number that have been delivered to a large number of vaccination sites/vaccine providers and schools believed to be involved in the vaccination programme.
These letters/emails are designed to intimidate staff and adversely affect the vaccination programme. The threats of legal action directed at staff have absolutely no basis in law and the claim that the SARS CoV2 injections are under Police investigation pursuant to crime reference number: 6029679/21 is false. Staff should be assured that the vaccination programme is completely lawful and has the full backing of the British Government and the British legal system and these threats of legal action should be ignored.
When dealing with letters and emails of this nature, please remember:
• Not to engage directly: misinformation narratives and tactics flourish when they are responded to, and experience shows that any responses will be followed by even more anti-vaccination communication.
… Read more »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoKaOkqnW9c&ab_channel=Milad%27sView
Canadian Army Major Stephen Chledowski speaks out against tyranny in Canada.
Urgent message five hour ago Calling for the army and people to stand against the “government”
Wow very succinct and true
Covid-19 has now hijacked the resources of the industrialised world’s health systems and undermined their economies in an unprecedented way. Israel has just authorised its fourth booster in a year, even as the toll of adverse events and deaths mounts in their wake. It is now evident that the revenue stream is for the time being more ‘durable’ than any protection derived from the vaccines.
The public health agenda was long ago seized by private interests.”
The World Bank has now ‘financialised’ epidemics and pandemics through bond issues, making them a vehicle for profit that entrenches their permanency. Vaccine bonds were introduced in 2011 to finance GAVI. In 2017, before we’d even heard of Covid-19, a pandemic bond and a finance facility had been introduced. In May 2021, 750million dollars in Covid-19 vaccine bonds underwritten by the Rockefeller-linked JP Morgan Bank were released.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-big-pharma-sold-vaccines-to-the-world-part-4/
https://t.me/s/robinmg
From Mike Yeadon’s telegram
I’ve been saying with increasing certainty that the single most important thing you will ever do is to PREVENT THE INSTALLATION OF A COMMON FORMAT DIGITAL ID.
Whether they call them “vaccine passports”, “digital wallets” or “green passes”, you must reject them.
You & I don’t need a digital ID that identifies me in a heartbeat whether in Berlin, Birmingham or Bogotá.
It’s the conspirators in the WEF & their enablers who needs us to have one.
Unless they force us to identify ourselves ahead of every transaction or movement, they can’t push over the financial system & replace everything with digital money which they control.
That is what they intend. There’s no other interpretation of two years of lying in our faces.
Once a control grid of digital ID & digital “money” exists (made lightning fast by 5G, presumably) I don’t see any way out again.
That’s a description of permanent slavery. A Huxley-style endless scientific tyranny.
Not a world fit for our children to live in.
So the future is now. Persuade those around you of the imminent peril. Involve yourselves in UNITED NON COMPLIANCE
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/was-peter-daszak-working-for-the
On January 12, 2022, Dr. Andrew Huff issued a public statement (on Twitter) in which he claimed, Peter Daszak, the President of EcoHealth Alliance, told him that he was working for the CIA.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/health-nightmare-alert-over-covid-jabs-injecting-a-heart-damaging-toxin/
Malone says the Cell findings may mean that a genetic device inserted in the Moderna and Pfizer products, aimed at avoiding immediate destruction of the mRNA by the immune system, ‘is working so well that the mRNA is completely evading the normal clearance/degradation pathways.’ Consequently, spike protein levels are even higher after the jab than seen in a person with severe Covid-19 disease.
‘That this has not been published or investigated more demonstrates the gross regulatory dereliction of duty by Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, NIAID VRC (the Vaccine Research Centre of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and that whole crew … I do not know how to write this more strongly.’
Interesting comment on TCW on that article.
Look out for the false flags/wars/terrorist outrages/internet outages.
“They” cannot afford to back down, so the recent news about the reduction of restrictions is just a temporary loosening of the screw.
I believe the globalists are on their way down and therefore have absolutely nothing to lose now by operating overtly, as opposed to covertly in the last decades. Goal to inflict maximum damage before they go down, with the hope that somehow this will have the capacity to avert disaster for them. They are at their most dangerous now, and I believe there are false flags on the way to be used to scare everyone witless and in order to reimpose draconian measures.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-hiv-mountaneer-has-passed
Jessica Rose’s post on Montagnier.
Dr. Montagnier was the one who apprised me (and the world) of the 5 cases of prion disease associated with the COVID-19 injections back in November 2020. He was also not shy about the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was made in a laboratory. What might have certainly ruffled some feathers for some creating and propagating the COVID-19 narrative, was the connection that he made between HIV and the COVID-19 injections. Now I am still unsure on the potential direct connection between these two viruses but he believed that the end game in all of this was the production of a ‘vaccine’ against HIV. I will return to my thoughts on this.
But, but… Austria need the kids to be jabbed or we can’t go skiing!!
From the Guardian. So wrong it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.
JCVI to announce new recommendations for vaccinating younger children
The UK’s vaccines watchdog is set to announce new recommendations for vaccinating younger children later on Friday, following a long and complex evaluation.
The Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations (JCVI) made its decision last week, with a formal announcement due on Friday afternoon.
Thus far, only clinically vulnerable children in the 5 to 11 age group have been offered vaccinations, a decision made in December.
It is not known whether the JCVI has recommended this cohort be expanded, and if so how widely. Decisions over vaccinating younger children are complex (NO THEY ARE NOT!), not least because very few of them become seriously ill with Covid. Many primary age children have also had the virus recently, with the emergence of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
The JCVI’s remit allows it only to consider the net benefits to those receiving a vaccine, not wider factors such as reducing transmission. In September it said it could not recommend Covid vaccinations for 12 to 15 year olds, instead suggesting ministers seek wider advice (AND THE CMO OVERRULED THEM).
The JCVI is entirely independent and makes only recommendations. It is up to… Read more »
The chocolate ration has doubled and boots are plentiful
Does this mean they are getting cold feet about proceeding with vaxxinating younger children?
A relative of mine is a teacher in a secondary school and she is distressed because several children in the school now suffer from heart palpitations and one girl in her class twitches all the time since the second vax.
My relative has not been vaxxed but has very little support from the other staff who are all believers and cannot recognise the evident health consequences to the children at school from this injection.
It is imperative that worldwide administration of the mRNA vaccinations be stopped immediately until further studies are conducted to determine the extent of the potential pathological consequences outlined in this paper. It is not possible for these vaccinations to be considered part of a public health campaign without a detailed analysis of the human impact of the potential collateral damage.
https://www.authorea.com/users/455597/articles/552937-innate-immune-suppression-by-sars-cov-2-mrna-vaccinations-the-role-of-g-quadruplexes-exosomes-and-micrornas
I imagine the JCVI will come out with some weasel words saying they can’t recommend vaccination from younger children (as they did for 12-15 year olds).
Whitty will probably then recommend them as he did for 12-15 year olds, and will then retire to his lakeside mansion with 24/7 armed security.
Matt Hancock for Met Commissioner
Gets my vote
Male, white, middle-aged. No chance.
If not Matt then who?
Camila Batmanghelidjh is my hot tip. Screenshot this post.
Swapping one Dick for another (you can say that on here can’t you?).
In other news, we now have the perfect excuse to not do a government required covid test – “President Macron was refused permission to approach President Putin during talks over Ukraine after turning down a PCR test, according to French sources.
They said that Macron was afraid the test would enable Russian intelligence services to obtain and exploit his DNA.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-kept-macron-at-a-distance-after-he-refused-to-take-pcr-btqp0mdv7
Would you want Macron anywhere near you?
It’s just occurred to me that ‘they’ changed the definition of vaccines to include these novel therapeutics. The new mRNA vaccines were then subject to the less stringent and shorter duration safety requirements, which we have grown accustomed to seeing with for example the very short cycle development of a new flu vaccine every year. If this was a new small molecule drug for an infection like malaria or scabies, they couldn’t have moved so fast.
What’s the point of writing to the JCVI? They said “NO” last time and Whitless just overrode them with the most pathetic excuse of the non-pandemic. The real way to tell them “NO!!!” is to write to your MP and say “I am never voting for your party again and nor am I voting for any party currently in Parliament”.
Another day, another senior Pfizer whistleblower …
This was tweeted by Maajid Nawaz, who was sacked by LBC for telling the truth so all those who can afford should support his journalism
https://paine.tv/exclusive-pfizer-vax-trial-manager-tells-all-blows-whistle-on-data-brook-jacksons-shocking-revelations-during-her-first-sit-down/
It’s spectacularly fraudulent.
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I’ve been emailing my MP Paul Girvan about this. His name is in the list of signatories. Hats off to him and his colleagues.
They always use the picture of that child getting a jab for the under 16s. I find it harrowing, a young kid sat there masked up placing total trust in something that is fundamentally stupid and harmful
I find deeply disturbing – these are perfectly healthy children with growing bodies and strong immune systems being injected with what could contribute to their early death. It reminds me of images from WW2 Camps.
I cannot understand why there is not public outrage!
The only article we should all be reading today is Dr McCullough’s paper to be found in the Daily Roundup (with Moira Stewart)?
https://www.authorea.com/users/455597/articles/552937-innate-immune-suppression-by-sars-cov-2-mrna-vaccinations-the-role-of-g-quadruplexes-exosomes-and-micrornas
No reason to doubt the general thrust of this. Vaccines are destroying immunity, and our natural defences against cancers. Hence the desperation to create an HIV scare. When a global jab initiative wrecks your interferon mechanisms and God knows what else, who you gonna blame?
And yet who doesn’t know large numbers of people this year who have suddenly been diagnosed with aggressive cancers, and weird neurological problems, let alone the heart issues.
The foolish agenda monkeys are attempting to hop into the lifeboats dressed in crinolines and unconvincing wigs. We are approaching the beginning of the end, and it’s going to get ugly.
New HIV/AIDS is vaccine damage, coming to a town very near you. Where is Whitty?
This is now becoming totally outrageous – our silent, sold-out Media are guilty of huge Crimes Against Humanity by their silence.
They watch in deliberate silence and total knowledge as AIDS is being delivered to the entire population – it is beyond evil!
Three in my family.