Press statement from CCVAG
London, Thursday 17th February 2022
Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Group urges immediate pause to roll-out for children and young people
Following the UK nations’ decision to rollout the covid vaccines to healthy children aged 5-11 from April, Dr Ros Jones, Chairwoman of the Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Group (CCVAG) says:
“Why are the governments of the 4 nations announcing a rollout of covid vaccines to healthy children aged 5-11, when they still have not answered urgent questions about safety in 12-17-year-olds?”
“Presumably this ‘offer’ is being made on a ‘non-urgent’ basis’ because the government has not finished its investigation into the growing evidence of harms to children.”
“This has never been a more urgent matter, we must halt the vaccine roll out while further investigations take place.”
“Growing criticism from medical establishment”
Since yesterday morning, more than 300 healthcare professionals have co-signed a letter to the government and its advisers, in a growing critique of policy by Britain’s medical establishment.
The letter calls for an immediate halt to the UK covid vaccine roll out to children, to allow time for a thorough investigation.
Signatories include the country’s leading medical professionals, including Dr Roland Salmon, former Director of Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre in Wales, Professor Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology specialising in cancer vaccines, and dozens of professors of Medical Microbiology, Risk Management and Genomics, NHS consultants in paediatrics, infectious disease, emergency medicine, care of the elderly and other relevant fields, plus hundreds of health professionals from across the UK.
International data from Hong Kong shows myocarditis risk to teenage boys as high as 1 in 2680 and they have ceased giving a 2nd dose. Meanwhile ONS figures for the UK have shown a significant rise in non-covid deaths, representing at least 2 young men aged 15-19 dying each week, the cause of which has yet to be investigated.
· CCVAG invites government advisers to urgent meeting and review
· Latest data shows rate of omicron infections is higher in the fully vaccinated.
· New ONS data indicates at least 2 excess deaths per week of teenage boys, correlating with vaccine rollout
· Roll-out to children is therefore all risk and no benefit
Yet, governments are recommending vaccinating healthy 5-11s, most of whom have already had SARS-CoV-2 infection, providing excellent natural immunity.
Read the letter in full.
