News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Even AI knows the MHRA is failing us on vaccine safety, says Nick Hunt. Its answers were spot on as it called for "urgent attention" to be given to "systemic issues" of failure to spot and investigate safety problems.
Errors in the pharmaceutical supply chain can harm, even kill patients if safety checks and protocols are not in place. Yet for Covid vaccines, MHRA cut corners and dropped inspections, says Hedley Rees.
The AstraZeneca vaccine should have been withdrawn long ago and the debacle shows the lessons of thalidomide have still not been learned, says research scientist Dr Maggie Cooper.
The withdrawal of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine raises fresh questions about the failure of the MHRA to keep the public safe, say Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson.
An inquiry into vaccine safety is "very likely", a senior MP has said, as a cross-party group of MPs blasted the medicines regulator for failing to sound the alarm about serious side-effects.
Reports on vaccine safety from Pfizer, obtained under FOI request, reveal concerning safety signals in a major U.K. primary care database, but the MHRA is refusing to release the data to the public.
As side-effects of the Covid vaccines piled up, the MHRA expanded its advice lists for patients but took no action. Why is there no safety threshold for medicine, unlike in all other safety sectors, asks Nick Hunt.
Freedom of Information requests have revealed that the MHRA did not follow up on nearly half of the reports of deaths following the Moderna Covid vaccine.
Covid vaccine-makers Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca were required to publish multiple post-authorisation safety studies. So where are they, asks Nick Hunt.
In a new FOI release the MHRA has finally come clean that it failed to test the safety of mass manufactured Covid vaccine batches, in contravention of its own regulations and public statements.
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