Covid booster doses will no longer be available to healthy people under 50 from next month, the Government has said. The reason given by the JCVI, the Government’s vaccine advisory body, is because “the transition continues away from a pandemic emergency response towards pandemic recovery”. A number of countries have imposed similar bans on boosters for healthy under-50s, a trend that has been linked by observers to safety concerns, though public authorities have not confirmed this. The U.K. will continue to offer the first two doses to over-16s.
The Government has also accepted JCVI advice that another round of Covid booster jabs should be dished out this autumn to the over-50s and other risk groups. The advisers have also called for senior citizens and those who are immunosuppressed to receive an extra booster dose this spring. These will be the seventh and eight jabs for thousands of Brits. The Mail has more.
Under the 2022 autumn Covid booster campaign which began in early September last year, over-50s, residents and staff at care homes for older adults and frontline health and social care workers are eligible for a jab.
On top of these groups, five to 49 year-olds who are a clinical risk group, live with an immunosuppressed person or are carers have also been offered a booster – similar to that for the annual flu vaccine.
According to the latest data, published on January 15th, 64.5% of those aged 50 and over and 82.4% of those aged 75 and over have received their [autumn] jab.
In England, the closure of the autumn booster campaign and the first [spring] booster offer will be on February 12th.
The JCVI also advised that the booster third dose which became available in 2021, will no longer be offered to those aged between 16 and 49-years-old who are not in a clinical risk group, from February 12th, “as the transition continues away from a pandemic emergency response towards pandemic recovery”.
Professor Wei Shen Lim, Chair of COVID-19 vaccination on the JCVI, said: “The COVID-19 vaccination programme continues to reduce severe disease across the population, while helping to protect the NHS.
“That is why we have advised planning for further booster vaccines for persons at higher risk of serious illness through an autumn booster programme later this year.”
She added: “We will very shortly also provide final advice on a spring booster programme for those at greatest risk.” …
The NHS will continue to operate a smaller scale vaccine offer from mid-February onwards to ensure those eligible for first and second doses can still get their jabs, it said today.
It comes as the FDA in the U.S. is set to recommend annual Covid boosters for Americans of all ages.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Alex Berenson has spotted data in the appendix that show how poorly the vaccines are preventing Covid hospitalisation and the sheer number of people who must be vaccinated in each age group to prevent one hospitalisation. And that isn’t even to consider adverse events caused by the vaccines.
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They sure do seem to want to kill off all the older folks by continually “boosting” them. It might save them from having to increase the pension age.
Ah, is that a solution (albeit rather a final one) to France’s problem of having to raise the pension age from 62?
Nothing to do with excess deaths for under-50s….
Excess deaths for under-50s are much harder to explain away, excess deaths for over-50s can be hidden or ignored or explained away more easily.
It isn’t what they aren’t saying. Its the way they aren’t saying it..
Exactly. These decisions are supposed to be based on risk/benefit analysis. Why don’t they explain what that was, and why don’t they explain why they withdrew the AstraZeneca jab?
‘Why don’t they explain why they withdrew the AstraZeneca jab?’
That is a VERY good point that has been totally ignored by the MSM and the entire political class. Its as if all the razzmatazz around ‘the UK’s covid vaccine’ never happened. Its just been wiped from history entirely. Its never mentioned at all now.
I think its a good angle for us sceptics to take – we need to start asking (very innocently) ‘Why was the AZ vaccine withdrawn?’ at every possible occasion.
Please see my email to Andrew Pollard, Chief Investigator on the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine trials, and Chair of the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, asking who initiated the plan to vaccinate the entire global population against SARS-CoV-2 when it was already known it wasn’t a serious threat to most people?
My email to Andrew Pollard, sent in June 2021, raises serious questions about the ethics process which approved covid-19 vaccine trials involving healthy people not at risk of covid-19.
It’s time for retrospective critical analysis of how the current global covid-19 jab rollout came to pass…
i think we all have a pretty good idea of some of the reasons behind this, but as I’ve said elsewhere it’s still worth asking why the crooks behaved like crooks. At least they can’t say they weren’t told. The people who did approve this plan should have bullet proof reasons as to why they didn’t give equal weight to independent medical organisations such as the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (who promoted vitamin C, vitamin D etc. to protect against viral infection), and that conflict of interest was absolutely not a factor. And even if they get that far, there still may be questions to answer.
Because the msm are now as corrupt as the AZ described by Oliver Wright (now working for the Times muppets) in his 2014 Independent piece (see here and here)
Big Pharma lobbyists exploit patients and doctors | The Independent | The Independent
Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
The COVID-19 vaccination programme continues to reduce severe disease across the population
Read: The so-called COVID-19 vaccination does not protect against severe disease.
while helping to protect the NHS
Against the threat of budget cuts, perhaps? The NHS is supposed to use medication to help people and not to help itself to something.
Beat me to it https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/25/covid-vaccine-booster-jab-nhs-uk-end/
Prof Lim should be awarded the ”Dipshit of the Year” award, as should anybody else falling for this total cobblers in 2023.
“The U.K. will continue to offer the first two doses to over-16s.” Oooh hang on a minute..isn’t that the one that’s based on the original Wuhan strain that has been extinct for 2 years now?
“Hmmm you know what? I’m totally regretting not getting one of those obsolete, ineffective, sudden death-inducing novel technology pretend vaccines. I think I’ll take the plunge this year so I can be protected from a virus that I appear to have survived so far with no problems whatsoever. Why not?” Said no sensible, unvaxxed person ever! :-/
Or I’m really itching to get two doses of something said not to be sufficient for anything ever since autumn 2021! Otherwise, it might not be not protected against severe COVID in the proper way!
BTW, your dipshit is really a compliment. This is not an inept person. It’s someone trying to keep the COVID gravy train rolling with sufficiently limited damages that it can actually keep on rolling for a while. This means this guy is either evil (wants to do bad stuff to people because he wants bad stuff to happen to hem) or a psychopath (doesn’t care what happens to other people provided he’s fine).
Oh I think he’s all of the above. Nobody can plead ignorance at this stage, especially nobody with ”Professor” as their title! He’s complete and utter scum of the earth.
Oops, think I just misgendered Prof Lim, who is apparently female. At least the name “Dipshit” is unisex though…
Spot as usual Mogs , it’s beyond reason that the first two jabs are still being offered, bizarre in fact ! Show us the medical reason health experts ? what’s that ! Oh you can’t!!.. Chunts !!!
And sadly I know someone (81) who will willingly line up for extra jabs this year, despite a rapid decline in health (which could be either age or vaccine related, but who’s to say?), and also a poor soul in a care home with dementia who gets jabbed routinely because he hasn’t got the wherewithall to question it. Last time I saw him his decline had been rapid, but again, no questions will be asked when he dies because, well, old sick people die, don’t they?
Yes the only people who get a caveat for my scathing statement above are the people who are too cognitively impaired to make an informed decision on their own behalf, such as people suffering dementia, learning difficulties or people who are profoundly disabled with no way of communicating effectively. Unfortunately these individuals are completely reliant on their caregivers for their health and welfare. It’s all very crap.
That’s an unfortunate side-effect of modern, urban rot: A family is grand parents, parents and children living in a single house. By the time the grand parents die, the children are old enough to become the parents. That’s how stuff worked not that long ago (150 years, roughly).
NB: I’m no better in this respect, as I’m living 434 miles distant from my parents.
Many, many folk don’t have the critical thinking skills or the backbone in combination to withstand the coercion & pressure following on from the military grade psychological terrorism which the governments have willingly waged on their populace.
What is not known by laypersons is that the ability to understand complex language & complex information declines with age in the normal population. Only relatively (last 20 years) recently known within the SLT profession & great resistance from medics etc to acknowledge this & change the style of information dissemination to their elderly patients. Align this with the also relatively unknown fact that the elderly tend to focus on positive things & ignore negative information, it makes a perfect storm for the older generation to believe all the lies which have been spewed out by the propaganda machinery.
Our governments have been waging a war against us in contravention of the Geneva Convention & the international laws of military engagement.
Sounds like the elephant quietly whispered this in the JCVI members’ ears.
According to Wikipedia, in the last two years. Wei Shen Lim received ‘more than £25001 in research funding from Pfizer’. Not saying he’s corrupted, but is he impartial?
There’s better information available here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221121201039/https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/about-us/committees-and-advisory-groups/clinical-audit-leads/35589/
The text is partially unreadable, but can be gathered from the page source. As of 2022, Wei Shen Lim is in control of
Unrestricted investigator initiated funding for a multi-centre pneumonia study in which WSL is the Chief Investigator.
or, put into other words, for the time being, he is – for all practical purposes – on the Pfizer payroll, has received an undeclared amount of money significantly larger than £25,001, and is essentially free to spend that as he sees fit. And he’s a public servant responsible for expert advice on vaccination in the UK at the same time(!).
I’m not saying that this is a striking example of corrupt official selling the population of the UK down the river because this really speaks for itself.
“Professor Wei Shen Lim, Chair of COVID-19 vaccination on the JCVI, said: “The COVID-19 vaccination programme continues to reduce severe disease across the population, while helping to protect the NHS.”
Just think how much worse the excess deaths and ambulance waiting times would be without the “vaccinations”…
Despite only recently approving this for 5+, going so far as to book them appointments for these injections, just like that, they’re dropped.
IMHO the whole quackcine programme should be STOPPED for all age groups not just the under 50’s
Regarding Alex Berenson’s Substack.
Put the odds of Covid hospitalisation against the odds of adverse reactions….
Question is why they did not drop these vaccines 2 years ago. Or with the benefit of the Pfizer papers did not ever start with these vaccines in the first place.
The Covid Pandemic Hoax. “A story for the ages”
They are slowly, slowly trying to distance the Government from the policy which has killed thousands, massively injured tens of thousands and had adverse effects for hundreds of thousands.
There will never be an admission that the experimental monkey juice is to blame for these. It will all be blamed on lack of access to healthcare “during the Covid emergency” and the evil people who instigated and carried out the policy will get away without any kind of censure.
The EVIL they carried out is so huge, and so many powerful people as well as ordinary healthcare providers are implicated, that they daren’t do otherwise.
Continuing to promote the snake-oil will make defence against murder more difficult – the link between the ‘vaccines’ and people dropping dead wasn’t at first clear – should these evil people ever be put on trial.