Letter to incoming PM: apply the precautionary principle

An influential group of 100 UK scientists and doctors have come together to write a letter for the incoming UK prime minister, urging an urgent pause to “the Covid-19 vaccine rollout for healthy children, while a thorough and independent safety review is undertaken.”

The letter, which was written by the Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Council, tells the new prime minister, “You have an opportunity to get ahead of the inevitable backlash by pausing the roll-out with immediate effect. This would be a risk-free action. Until then, the political risk and health risk of this policy will only escalate.”

Read the letter to the new Prime Minister.

The letter provides links to the many letters sent to the various UK officials since the start of the programme, detailing the data, facts and arguments for applying the precautionary principle. Astoundingly, none of these letters have received a meaningful response. Similarly, members of the Pandemic Response All Party Parliamentary Group have received no formal response from the government to their formal inquiries.

Signatories include Professor David Livermore, who was Public Health England’s Director of Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring for more than two decades, Professor Angus Dalgleish, one of Britain’s most experienced scientists in the field of vaccination and immunotherapy and Professor Anthony J Brookes, Professor of Genomics and Health Data Science at the University of Leicester.

The letter can be co-signed by all healthcare professionals in the UK. To become a co-signatory, click here. (This letter is not intended to be co-signed by the general public.)

In March 2022, more than 800 British healthcare professionals co-signed a letter from the CCVAC, calling for a pause to the roll-out to the Covid vaccine programme for older children.