Pfizer’s Covid vaccine has been authorised in the U.K. for infants aged six months to four years-old, the medicines regulator confirmed today. The Mail has more.
Covid vaccines were today approved for babies in Britain, in a move likely to spark huge controversy. Regulators gave the green light for all infants older than six months to get a special, low-dose formulation of Pfizer’s jab.
Its decision opens the door for No. 10’s vaccine advisers to choose whether under-5s should be jabbed as part of the U.K.’s vaccination strategy.
Authorities have so far held out on recommending jabs for infants due to concerns that the benefits don’t outweigh any potential risks. Children rarely get seriously ill with the coronavirus, and the majority are thought to have already been infected.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which polices the safety of drugs used in the U.K., made the decision after reviewing data from an ongoing trial.
More than 4,500 infants were given a small 3 microgram dose of the vaccine. For comparison, adults in Britain get a dose 10 times stronger. Older children, who are already allowed to be vaccinated in the UK, get given a dose of up to 10 micrograms.
Lower doses are given to children to avoid complications, such as myocarditis – the rare condition that spooked health chiefs early on in the pandemic.
The jab is given as three injections in the upper arm, with the first two doses given three weeks apart. A third dose is administered at least two months after the second.
The MHRA said the jab triggered common side effects “in-keeping with what can be anticipated from a vaccine in this age group”.
The Commission on Human Medicines – a committee within the MHRA – endorsed approving the vaccine, after reviewing the evidence.
A separate Government group, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, will decide under what circumstances it is dished out.
This could include a list of specific conditions that make children vulnerable to Covid, such as type 1 diabetes or sickle cell disease.
Covid vaccines for children in Briton have so far been incredibly unpopular.
The latest Government data on vaccine uptake shows only 6% of people aged between five to 11 in England have had two doses of a Covid vaccine.
Scores of countries, including the US, China and Israel, already offer vaccines to kids under five, despite huge backlash over the moves. U.S. officials rolled out this version of Pfizer’s shot for the same age group earlier this year. And EU regulators also endorsed the use of Covid vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna for under-5s.
This is madness, obviously, and it is a relief to hear that the JCVI is not likely to follow through on the MHRA’s approval, and also that children’s Covid vaccines are proving so unpopular. The Covid mortality rate in under-20s is one in 300,000, according to the latest studies, and will be lower still in under-5s. Furthermore, that figure includes those with underlying conditions, and the mortality rate in healthy infants will be even lower – basically zero. Up to June 2021, just four children in the U.K. and Ireland aged under 11 had died with Covid; most children who died (nine out of 11 – seven older children also died) had pre-existing conditions. This is not a disease for which children need a vaccine, and certainly not an experimental vaccine with a lamentable safety profile.
On the other hand, the one small mercy is that the dose approved is 3 μg – in the study which found nearly one in 500 small children hospitalised with a serious adverse reaction to the Pfizer vaccine, all of the serious reactions were in the higher dose cohorts. That means that at this lower dosage the current evidence (albeit in a study with a relatively small sample) is that it is not as dangerous as at higher dosages. However, that study only followed up after the first dose. The MHRA approval is for three doses, and the cumulative impact is unknown.
As I say, small mercies.
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I heartily approve of the choice of picture. All covidiots should forever more be pictured wearing masks.
They should be obliged by law to wear the face nappies until their dying day. And thereafter, in their coffins.
Indeed. Why isn’t Susan Michie still wearing one, to protect us? Selfish woman!
Indeed. It was what she wanted – for herself and everyone. She’s a hypocrite, too. I imagine she still wants it, but nowadays only for everyone else. She is one of the more equal animals.
Kids, the animals bit is a reference to the story 1984, by George Orwell. If you want to read it, make sure you do not download any ebook. Get a proper book, published before March 2020. Ask me why.
We’ll need Sol Roth eventually!
Oh go on then, why?
(I’m guessing they have taken out some hurty words).
Taken out words. And replaced many sections to reverse the message. I would point you to one ebook on Amazon I noticed in 2022, but it has since disappeared.
‘Animal Farm’, surely, not ‘1984’.
Yes, Brian. Apologies for posting the same after you.
Pedant’s Corner:
“All Animals Are Equal but Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”.
George Orwell, Animal Farm.
And the coffins should be burnt.
“Why Have No Fellows of the Royal Society Resigned Over Anthony Fauci?”
Because they’re all agenda driven elitest A-holes!
Talking of elitist A-holes this story about Professor Stephen Curry is about his half-arsed efforts showing him to be a complete arse and of his ‘scientific’ mate’s inability to tell the difference between science and the inane ramblings of an unemployed former barman and administrator and internet troll. Read this as the past comes back to haunt Curry:
Professor Stephen Curry – “Half-Arsed” Dumbing Down of Science Posted on August 2, 2010 by ChildHealthSafety
The modern “dumbing down” of British science is well demonstrated by the inept efforts of Professor Stephen Curry on his Nature “science” journal’s blog. Curry was incensed by a well written UK Guardian newspaper article by professional journalist Simon Jenkins and responded childishly with abuse. Worse still Curry’s efforts were defended in The Guardian by physicist and Vice Dean Professor Jon Butterworth of London University ……..
Read on for more
Hilariously two of the particularly ridiculous aspects of the article quoted above about Curry and Jon Butterworth is Curry replied [see it here and weep] and Butterworth excruciatingly embarrassingly cannot tell the difference between an accredited established qualified British university scientific expert and an internet troll with no qualifications:
“It seems no one has had the heart to tell Butterworth that a “scientist” blogger he quoted in his Guardian piece [as an example of the entire scientific world and in defence of his pal Professor Stephen Curry] is in fact none other than the former unemployed barman and administrator and well known internet “troll” James Cole [aka jdc 325 and 325 jdc].”
So much for the ivory towers of Imperial College and the ability of these two jokers to tell the difference between science and nonsense.
Perhaps the thousands of the Royal Society’s contemporary Professors, Sirs, Dames and Professor Sirs need to mug up on the history of their precious Society, as delineated on the Society’s website – the world’s first national scientific society, founded in 1662 by pioneers of experimental physical sciences, that included Newton, Boyle and Hooke, under the inaugural presidency of Sir Christopher Wren.
Motto – Nullius in Verba – “Take nobody’s word for it” – “an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment...”
…Which pretty much rules out the unverifiable voodoo-science prosecuted by Mann and Fauci.
As Professor Groucho Marx always used to say, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member!”
It’s so sad that the RS is being brought into disrepute by these people, perhaps those who think science is political should be the first to be kicked out before the RS loses all credibility.
But fear not my friends, there is light at the end of the tunnel, I now call it “The reawakening”. People like Dr Iain McGilchrist are fighting a rear guard action and I urge all readers here to check him out. Perhaps those who are interested should check him out for suitability and the first stop should be…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ6C4KQhdLQ
When he talks about left he is not being political. Perhaps the DS could invite him to pen an article. But one of his books has been described “It’s very simple: this is one of the most important books ever published. And, yes, I do mean ever…”.
But there are many others who are “rebelling”, David Starkey, Jordan Peterson and more.
It’s just a modern example of a ‘witch hunt’… but of course there are no witches just people carrying grudges.
The location of the witch hunt in the Royal Society is just a matter of convenience.
Wonderful video thank you for the link, the metric system, civil law, the EU, all prov the validity of his thesis.
As Douglas Adams knew and we all know, politics is far too important to be left to people who really want to be in charge. The great weakness of modern democracy in the age of 24 hour media cycle.
Grouch Marx would not join any society that would have him as a member. I would not join any society that has Mann or Fauci as members given that they are guilty of falsification and fabrication. Nor anyone stupid enough to quote Mann’s Hookey Stick as evidence given how that was shredded years ago as complete crap existing only to deny the existence of the Medieval Warm Period.
Well…
From abc News
White House changes COVID.gov web page to page supporting lab leak theory
The five pieces of evidence put forth by the White House for the theory include the following assertions: that the “virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature,” that data shows all cases “stem from a single introduction into humans,” that “Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab,” that researchers at that research lab “were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019,” and that “if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.“
The page includes claims that government officials, including former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, helped edit and then amplify a research paper on the origins of COVID-19 published in 2020 that supported natural origin theory.
The page includes claims that government officials, including former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, helped edit and then amplify a research paper on the origins of COVID-19 published in 2020 that supported natural origin theory.