A group of doctors is launching a legal challenge against the U.K. Government’s offer of a Covid vaccine to healthy five to 11 year-olds, on behalf of a British mother and her children, branding it “reckless” and “grossly irresponsible”.
The case is being brought by members of the Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Council – an independent group of senior health professionals and scientists aiming to challenge unethical Government policies on Covid vaccines for children – and employs the same legal team challenging the Government on the 12-15 year-old rollout (the two cases having to be brought separately).
In the absence of an independent critical media or political opposition on this issue, the group says this is the only opportunity there will be to force the Government to account for its decision. The worry is officials will get off unchallenged and a dangerous precedent will be set for healthcare policy in the U.K. Funding support is being spearheaded by Beverley Turner, radio and TV personality and a campaigner for child protection.
The group says that, even if the case is unsuccessful, it is of vital importance the arguments are made and the Government’s response recorded to form part of the public record. It adds:
The Government has recently begun to climb down on many Covid policies as the evidence becomes too obvious to ignore, but it is stubbornly pushing ahead with the least logical, most reckless policy of all – experimental pharmaceutical interventions on our children.
The group sets out in detail in a letter to the Government (plus two annexes) the evidence of a lack of any risk-benefit case for vaccinating children. The group says the case will show that crucial information is being hidden from the public and there is no benefit to children from vaccination. It will also show that adverse reactions from the vaccines are likely in the hundreds of thousands and there is demonstrable risk of life-changing injury and death.
The group argues that despite the Government’s use of the word “offer”, which implies freedom of choice, basic information on the vaccine and its efficacy and side-effects has not been provided to parents and children.
It notes that Sweden has refused to give the vaccines to healthy children on the basis they provide no benefit and Norway is also not recommending them. Florida is the first U.S. state actively to recommend against vaccinating healthy children. The U.K. must follow their lead, it says.
If you would like to support the legal challenge financially you can pledge to do so here.
According to the CCVAC website, its current membership comprises:
- Dr Rosamond Jones, MBBS, MD, FRCPCH, retired consultant paediatrician, convener CCAG (Children’s Covid Advisory Council)
- Professor Keith Willison, PhD, Professor of Chemical Biology, Imperial, London
- Professor David Livermore, BSc, PhD, Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of East Anglia
- Professor Anthony J Brookes, Professor of Genomics and Health Data Science, University of Leicester
- Professor Richard Ennos, MA, PhD. Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Angus Dalgleish, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FRCPath, FMed Sci, Professor of Oncology, St Georges Hospital, London
- Professor John Fairclough FRCS FFSEM retired Honorary Consultant Surgeon
- Professor Norman Fenton, CEng, CMath, PhD, FBCS, MIET, Professor of Risk Information Management, Queen Mary University of London
- Lord Moonie, MBChB, MRCPsych, MFCM, MSc, House of Lords, former parliamentary under-secretary of state 2001-2003, former consultant in Public Health Medicine
- Dr Theresa Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD, Director, Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd, Bath
- Dr John Flack, BPharm, PhD. Retired Director of Safety Evaluation, Beecham Pharmaceuticals 1980-1989 and Senior Vice-president for Drug Discovery 1990-92 SmithKline Beecham
- Dr Roland Salmon, MB BS, MRCGP, FFPH, Former Director, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre Wales
- Dr Alan Mordue, MBChB, FFPH. Retired Consultant in Public Health Medicine & Epidemiology
- Dr Gerry Quinn, PhD. Postdoctoral researcher in microbiology and immunology
- Katherine MacGilchrist, BSc (Hons), MSc, CEO/Systematic Review Director, Epidemica Ltd.
- Mr James Royle, MBChB, FRCS, MMedEd, Colorectal surgeon
- Dr Livia Tossici-Bolt, PhD, Clinical Scientist
- Dr Elizabeth Evans MA(Cantab), MBBS, DRCOG, Retired Doctor
- Dr Rohaan Seth, Bsc (hons), MBChB (hons), MRCGP, Retired General Practitioner
- Dr Emma Brierly, MRCGP, General Practitioner
- Dr Geoffrey Maidment, MD, FRCP, retired consultant physician
- Mr Malcolm Loudon, MBChB, MD, FRCSEd, FRCS(Gen Surg), MIHM,VR, Consultant Surgeon
- Dr Alan Black, MBBS, MSc, DipPharmMed, retired pharmaceutical physician
- Dr David Cartland, MBChB, BMedSci, General practitioner
- Dr Peter Chan, BM, MRCS, MRCGP, NLP, General Practitioner, Functional medicine practitioner
- Dr Greta Mushet, MBChB, MRCPsych, retired Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy
- Dr Samuel McBride, MBBCh, BAO, BSc, MSc, MRCP (UK) FRCEM, FRCP (Edinburgh), NHS Emergency Medicine & geriatrics
- Mr Ian F Comaish, MA, BM BCh, FRCOphth, FRANZCO, Consultant ophthalmologist
- Dr Branko Latinkic, BSc, PhD, Reader in Biosciences
- Dr Helen Westwood MBChB MRCGP DCH DRCOG, General Practitioner
- Michael Cockayne, MSc, PGDip, SCPHNOH, BA, RN, Occupational Health Practitioner
- Mr Anthony Hinton, MBChB, FRCS, Consultant ENT surgeon, London
- Dr Tanya Klymenko, PhD, FHEA, FIBMS, Senior lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
- Michael Cockayne, MSc, PGDip, SCPHNOH, BA, RN, Occupational Health Practitioner
- Dr Carmen Wheatley, DPhil, Orthomolecular Oncology
- Dr Charles Lane OBE, Molecular Biologist
- Mr Angus Robertson BSc (Med. Sci.) MB ChB FRCS(Ed) FFSEM(UK) Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
- Dr Michael D Bell, MBChB MRCGP Retired General Practitioner
- Dr Jayne LM Donegan, MBBS, DRCOG, DCH, DFFP, MRCGP, General Practitioner
- Dr David Critchley, BSc, PhD in Pharmacology, 32 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical R&D
- Dr Keith Johnson, BA, D.Phil (Oxon), IP Consultant for Diagnostic Testing
- Julie Annakin, RN, Immunisation Specialist Nurse
- Rev Dr William J U Philip MB ChB, MRCP, BD, Senior Minister The Tron Church, Glasgow, formerly physician specialising in cardiology
- Dr Jonathan Rogers MBChB (Bristol) MRCGP DRCOG Retired NHS General Practitioner
- Dr Pauline Jones, MB BS, Retired General Practitioner
- Dr Emma Brierly, MBBS, MRCGP, General Practitioner
- Dr Elizabeth Burton, MB ChB, Retired General Practitioner
- Dr Franziska Meuschel, MD, ND, PhD, LFHom, BSEM, Nutritional, Environmental and Integrated Medicine
- Dr Michael Bazlinton, MBCHB MRCGP DCH
- Dr Holly Young, BSc, MBChB, MRCP, Consultant Palliative Care Medicine
- Dr Julian Tomkinson, MBChB, MRCGP, General Practitioner, GP Trainer, PCME
- Dr David Bramble, MBChB, MRCPsych, MD, Consultant Psychiatrist
- Dr Christina Peers, MBBS, DRCOG, DFSRH, FFSRH, Menopause Specialist
- Dr Chris Newton, PhD, Biochemist working in immuno-metabolism
- Dr Christopher Exley, PhD, FRSB, Bioinoganic Chemist
- Dr Sarah Myhill, MBBS, Retired General Practitioner
- Jessica Righart, Senior Critical Care Scientist
- Dr Michael D Bell, MBChB, MRCGP, retired General Practitioner
- Dr Angharad Powell, MBChB, General Practitioner
- Dr Stephen Ting, MB CHB, MRCP, PhD, Consultant Physician
- Mr Ahmad K Malik, FRCS (Tr & Orth), Dip Med Sport, Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon
- Dr Catherine Hatton, MBChB, General Practitioner
- Dr Kulvinder S. Manik MBChB, MRCGP, MA(Cantab), LLM, Gray’s Inn
- Dr Stefanie Williams, MD, Dermatologist
- Kim Bull, Foundation Degree in Paramedic Science, Paramedic
- Margaret Moss, MA (Cantab), CBiol, MRSB, Director, The Nutrition and Allergy Clinic, Cheshire
- Dr Haleema Sheikh, MRCGP, General Practitioner
- James Cook, NHS Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Nursing (Hons), Master of Public Health (MPH)
- Dr Jonathan Engler, MBChB, LlB (Hons), DipPharmMed
- Dr Clare Craig, BMBCh, FRCPath, Pathologist
- Dr David Bell, MBBS, PhD, FRCP(UK), Public Health Physician
- Dr Ruth Wilde, MB BCh, MRCEM, AFMCP, Integrative & Functional Medicine Doctor
- John Collis, RN, Specialist Nurse Practitioner
- Dr Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB, private physician
- Mr Lasantha Wijesinghe, FRCS, Consultant Vascular Surgeon
- Dr Claire Mottram, BSc Hons, MBChB, Doctor in General Practice
- Dr Ali Haggett, Mental health community work, 3rd sector, former lecturer in the history of medicine
- Dr Jenny Goodman, MA, MBChB, Ecological Medicine
- Suzanne Tomkinson BSc MSc CSci FIBMS Senior Biomedical Scientist (Clinical Biochemistry)
- Dr Felicity Lillingstone, IMD DHS PhD ANP, Doctor, Urgent Care, Research Fellow
- Dr Marco Chiesa, MD, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist & Visiting Professor, UCL
- Anna Phillips, RSCN, BSc Hons, Clinical Lead Trainer Clinical Systems (Paediatric Intensive Care)
- Dr Jason Lester, MRCP, FRCR, Consultant Clinical Oncologist
- Dr Sue de Lacy MBBS MRCGP AFMCP UK Integrative Medicine Doctor
- Dr David Morris, MBChB, MRCP (UK), General Practitioner
- Dr Andrew Isaac, MB BCh, Physician, retired
- Dr Renee Hoenderkamp, General Practitioner
- Dr Noel Thomas, MA, MBChB, DObsRCOG, DTM&H, MFHom, Retired Doctor
- Dr Zac Cox, BDS, LCPH, Dental Practitioner
- Mr Colin Natali, BSc(hons) MBBS, FRCS (Orth), Consultant Spinal Surgeon
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