In December, after the U.K. approved the Covid vaccine for infants, I asked the Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland, Dr. Michael McBride, why we were vaccinating babies against COVID-19. The question was the title of an article in the Daily Sceptic in which I also asked him to address other related issues.
I have now received a reply. He writes:
The Department of Health, along with the equivalent Departments across the rest of the U.K., has been guided by the expert advice provided by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) regarding vaccine safety and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), an independent expert advisory committee, on vaccine strategy.
In early December 2022 the MHRA approved a new age appropriate formulation of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty) for use in infants and young children aged from six months to four years after the vaccine met the required safety, quality and effectiveness standards. This approval was given following a thorough review of safety data specific to the vaccine. The vaccine has already been approved by the EMA in Europe and the FDA in the USA.
The response goes on to say that “they will now await advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation as to whether or not they will recommend the offer of vaccination is extended to all or some children within this age cohort”.
In my reply to the Chief Medical Officer I pointed out that the response did not address my question or the other issues raised in my letter and asked him to address them.
First, I asked him why children with a 99.9987% survival chance need a vaccine. I asked him to reveal how many babies have actually died from Covid as the underlying cause of death.
Next, I asked if he accepted the multiple analyses, confirmed by the European CDC in August 2020, indicating that children have little capacity to transmit the virus and which showed that reopening schools in 2020 had not been associated with significant increases in community transmission. And if so, to confirm that he will not recommend that course of action again. Or alternatively, to send me evidence that children and schools are in fact a centre for transmission.
I went on to ask him to confirm that the vaccine was never actually tested for its capacity to prevent transmission, as stated by Pfizer executive Ms. Small at the European Parliament, and therefore confirm that as the vaccine has not been shown to prevent transmission, his advice to vaccinate children and babies is solely to reduce the risk to the children themselves.
And that furthermore this position would presuppose that children are actually at risk, whereas the evidence is that they are not at risk. Analysis shows persons 0-19 have a 0.0003% risk of death. For children zero to 10 years of age the risk of severe outcome and death from Covid is basically zero.
In the U.S., analysis of the FDA’s data shows the risk of any child dying of COVID-19 is 0.000015% and a study by the universities of Leeds and Leicester found that there had been no deaths of healthy children in the U.S.
In Canada, the Canadian Health Alliance states: “Without a serious pre-existing medical condition, the risk of death is statistically zero.”
Furthermore, no healthy child has died of Covid in Scotland, Northern Ireland, USA, Iceland or Ireland. Nor in the U.K. in 2020, according to Professor Norman Fenton.
As the children are not at risk and are not a risk to anyone else, why would you vaccinate them, I asked.
I then asked for an explanation as to how the vaccine could have undergone safety trials on children and babies sufficient to give anyone confidence in its long term safety. I further inquired why the advice to vaccinate children had been given before the completion of the new trials investigating vaccine myocarditis by Pfizer and Moderna which recent press reports indicate are underway. The FDA has mandated both companies to conduct clinical trials tracking vaccine myocarditis months and years beyond diagnosis for children aged five to 15.
I went on to ask him how his analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which has been found to show 96 safety signals for 12-17 year-olds and 66 safety signals for five to 11 year-olds (including myocarditis, pericarditis, Bell’s Palsy, high blood pressure and heart rate, and menstrual irregularities) informed his decision.
I also pointed out that a major reason given for the vaccine programme is that vaccinations reduce hospitalisations and reduce stress on the NHS, yet studies from around the world continue to suggest that the vaccines actually increase the risk of Covid infection.
Finally, I asked him if citizen’s rights with respect to informed consent as set out on the NHS website are clearly available at vaccination centres and surgeries?
I went on to highlight the widespread public concern, with polls showing 48% of Americans are concerned about vaccine injuries.
I asked him if he felt that the practice of health care meets the ethical standards of public health principles, such as that public health:
- is about comparative risk evaluations;
- requires public trust. Public health recommendations should present facts as the basis for guidance, and never employ fear or shame to sway or manipulate the public;
- requires open civilised debate. It is unacceptable for public health professionals to censor, silence or intimidate members of the public or other public health scientists or practitioners and that
- medical interventions should not be forced or coerced upon a population, but rather should be voluntary and based on informed consent.
I highlighted some of the many medical groups and medics calling for a halt to the vaccination programme, for example Doctors for Patients, World Council for Health and renowned cardiologists such as Dr. Aseem Malhotra and Dr. Peter Mccullough.
Is such substantial doubt enough for you to halt the programme, I asked.
I went on to add that there is also an important democratic principle involved here.
In a democracy, when there has been a mandating of public health measures and limitations put on public freedoms as a result of health advice, it is right that those recommending the most draconian measures in our history should fully present the evidence to the public showing unequivocally that the measures were necessary and that they work.
I await a response.
Hugh McCarthy is a retired headteacher in Northern Ireland who until recently served as a director on two of the province’s main education councils and who remains a ministerial appointment on one.
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As Chief Medical Officer, he is a master at greasy pole-climbing, and you don’t rise to a position like that by ever making a decision without having someone else to blame it on.
So you won’t get a straight answer to any questions – it’ll all be “I have taken the advice of blah blah blah”, i.e. the buck does not stop here! Zero responsibility and zero accountability.
Quacksination is a religious cult.
Nothing to do with health, all to do with money, backhanders, commissions, secret bank accounts, power.
Do you really believe that the rabies stab at age 2 saved you from the dreaded rabies, or cholera, or polio etc all diseases which you have statistically speaking, 0 chance of catching? Or do you believe that every stabbination is paid for, and a business for profit not health?
You’ve already had your answer, most likely the only answer you are ever going to get – he and every other public health official, member of parliament and the government intends to pass the buck to the MHRA and the JCVI. Who in turn have already stated that the decision was a political decision taken out of their hands. Aka finger-pointing, deflection, passing the buck.
As for the myocarditis studies of pfisser and murderna – they were instructed to study myocarditis back in the summer of 2021, after the cdc had an “emergency” meeting (which they postponed for the then non-existent holiday of juneteenth) about the by then undeniable myocarditis signals that they had been informed of since at least March 2021.
The studies were supposed to have been completed by summer 2022, the reports of the studies in by end December 2022. Here we are in the second month of 2023, and still nothing. That is how much they care about the unnecessary, avoidable deaths of young people in particular. That is your answer.
At some point the immunity of the pharma companies from liability will be removed. Politicians may find themselves held to account in some other way, when enough people realise just what contempt and disregard they had for the lives of their constituents.
The bureaucratic establishment is inhuman, nay, anti-human.
It wields power without responsibility and is immune from consequences.
Politicians have realised that they too can shield themselves from responsibility by hiding behind the bureaucracy.
And the bureaucracy is such a huge, thick web of process and procedures that it becomes very difficult to determine who is instructing it or directing it.
Bureaucracy, if allowed to continue to grow, will eventually consume us all.
Just like the fungus in ‘The Last of Us’
At this point the only questions for him that occur to me are 1) when exactly did you start working for Satan and 2) what did he offer you?
This is a perfectly reasonable question since it appears that Pfizer proudly sponsored the Satanic performance at the Grammys. Funny, I couldn’t find anything about that on the BBC News website.
I fear sadly unless you are in a backroom with these sociopaths and a hammer screaming “Which hand do you inject with?” or waterboarding them in the Scottish Highlands you’re only going to get more lies and obfuscation. People need to keep pinning them down though, really excellent questions.
In Australia, see my email to Nigel Crawford, the chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), equivalent of the UK JCVI:
Why does ATAGI recommend COVID-19 mRNA injections for all children aged 5 to 11 years? 22 April 2022.
No answer.
I also forwarded the email to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners:
Why does ATAGI recommend COVID-19 mRNA injections for all children aged 5 to 11 years? Email to Karen Price, president of the RACGP 9 May 2022
No answer.
And I forwarded the email to the Federal Health Minister:
Why does ATAGI recommend COVID-19 mRNA injections for children? Email to Australian Health Minister Mark Butler, 18 November 2022
No answer.
This system is beyond rotten. It’s not accountable, it’s not legitimate.
I’ve followed the same process Elizabeth with the same responses. I have also visited several local members of parliament and found their complete lack of comprehension of not just data, but how the system works to be truly frightening.
I could add:
What is an expert?
What do you do when “experts” disagree?
Are you capable of analyzing data yourself?
“What is an expert?”
I was always told… ‘X’ is an unknown quantity, and a ‘spurt’ is a drip under pressure.
The system is rotten Dr G, it’s mired in conflicts of interest.
As for the so-called ‘experts’ – they should take that word out of the dictionary.
I also wrote to 26 MPs (called MLAs here) with the same set of questions—no answers. The most worrying aspect of this is the complete absence of what I used to think of as democratic accountability. From afar, Australia looks even worse.
That’s right carter20, there is no accountability.
Which means these governments are not legitimate.
They’re acting without our informed consent.
This is the same UK Chief Medical Officer who massively misled tens of thousands of BBC Radio Ulster listeners just over a year ago when he TWICE agreed with Stephen Nolan that “if you’ve had two doses of the vaccine, and you haven’t had the booster, if you get Omicron you’ve got a 50-50 chance of ending up in hospital”.
And he didn’t correct this blatant misinformation until seven weeks later, and only on a factcheck website which relative few people ever see:
https://factcheckni.org/topics/health/is-there-a-50-chance-of-hospitalisation-with-omicron-if-you-dont-get-a-covid-19-booster-jab/
Here is a precisely accurate transcript of the conversation between Stephen Nolan and Professor McBride broadcast on The Nolan Show on BBC Radio Ulster on Monday 10 January 2022:
Nolan: “Let me make sure I’m understanding those figures: You talked about a 50% protection there, after how many months?”
Professor McBride: “That’s after six months with two doses of the vaccine.”
Nolan: “So if you come across Omicron, if you’ve had two doses and you haven’t had your booster, you’ve a 50-50 chance if you get Omicron of ending up in hospital, is that what you’re saying?”
Professor McBride: “That’s correct, that’s correct.”
Nolan: “Wow!”
Professor McBride: “And that’s why the booster takes that up to 90%, and that’s sustained beyond ten weeks in people over-, older people who we know whose immune response is less good, but even in people over the age of 65 years of age, that response is maintained beyond ten weeks. So that’s why it’s so really important to get the booster jab.”
Nolan: “That 50% figure must depend on age.”
Professor McBride: “It does indeed. We know that there is a degree of variability, we know for younger people that the immune response stimulated by a vaccine lasts longer, and clearly the older we get, like me, then the vaccine response tails off more rapidly. But I think the data published on Friday by the UK Health Security Agency was very reassuring to show that whilst the protection from symptoms of Covid and getting infection wanes very quickly, what we are seeing is that enduring longer response in terms of protecting people from severe disease and ending up in hospital, and that’s really really important. It’s really important that people don’t take unnecessary risks with their health, but it’s also really important in keeping the pressure off our health service.”
Nolan: “With all due respect to you, and, you know, anything I say this morning, I think if we can drum home the message to people listening this morning, if you’ve had two doses of the vaccine, and you haven’t had the booster, if you get Omicron you’ve got a 50-50 chance of ending up in hospital. That is an incredible statement and it punches through, it’s easy to understand.”
Professor McBride: “It is. I mean, look, I mean quite simply, two doses of the vaccine isn’t sufficient, it’s better than nothing, you need your booster dose to really get that protection from ending up in hospital, and clearly those of us over the age of 50 are more vulnerable, are at greater risk, and it’s really important that we come forward for our booster. Don’t forget now people, young people over the age of 16 are now eligible after three months for the booster jab, everybody over the age of 18, you know we are making really good progress…”.
I also wrote to 26 MLAs here in N.I —I await a response from any.. I do hope you too wrote to them. I send my articles to the main decision makers here. Yo may know I was interviewed, briefly by Nolan’s radio equivalent, William Crawley re masks – he cut me off then put the phone down when I was explaining that they don’t work and cause harms–you’ll find mask articles below on my Substack and other DS published material.
https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/
Vaccinating Children
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/why-are-we-vaccinating-children
Vaccinating Babies
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/12/why-are-we-vaccinating-babies/
Is it possible for you to email a copy of that exchange please—-I can’t seem to copy and paste.
Why Are they injecting and experiment jab into Babies?
Not for their health
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Poor, poor babies.
i have no words. I used to be a nurse for newborn & small babies.
i can imagine what this will do to them, most of them.
i can imagine their whimpering, distressed, incessant crying.
Please don’t hold your breath Dr McCarthy. At the moment your correspondent mentioned the “independent MHRA” you knew he’d been bought and fully signed up to the official narrative.
Congratulations to Hugh McCarthy on his excellent piece, written with exemplary clarity and skill. At least the deception is exposed for all to see. Scary.
Thank you and see my comments to Godknowsimgood above-you will see a couple of links to my other articles or here for the other 29 !!! https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/
For me a vital question is why would any sensible parent allow their infants to be subjected to a Covid vax?
I was delighted when a checkout girl at the my local Coop said she refused the Covid vax for her two toddlers.
Similarly, it has been reported that ethnic minorities have, very sensibly, a low take up of the Covid vax.
‘The Questions I Want the Chief Medical Officer to Answer About Why We Are Vaccinating Babies Against Covid.’
And why are we vaccinating babies with an Emergency-Use-Authorised vaccine? On what rationale does an emergency exist, when the case fatality rate for fit-and-well people aged under 65 is 0.01%, and for babies is 0.00%?
And why is the EUA license un-revoked, when it was conditional on the performance of studies into raised troponin levels, indicative of heart damage, that have not been done?
indeed and see my reply to godknowsima good person above or visit https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/
Thanks Hugh; quite right.
IMO you missed one out: Does the CMO agree with the evidence that recovery from covid confers superior protection than injection with the spike protein alone?
the actual letter contained several other direct questions!