The People’s Vaccine Inquiry, launched on June 10 2024, features submissions from CCVAC lead Dr Ros Jones, along with other expert witnesses.
The official website for the Inquiry, where you can read the statements and watch video testimony, is below.
26th September, 2022
The Rt Hon Liz Truss
The Prime Minister
10, Downing Street,
London, SW1A 2AA
Dear Ms Truss,
Re: Covid-19 Vaccines for Children
Firstly, congratulations on becoming our new Prime Minister.
You will no doubt have many pressing matters as you take up office. But what can be more important than the health and well-being of the nation’s children?
We, the undersigned health professionals and scientists, have huge concerns about the safety and necessity of Covid-19 vaccines for children, for reasons detailed in the letters enclosed. Between us, we have written numerous letters to the regulators, copied to your predecessor, regarding use of these mRNA products in children. We call upon you, urgently, to pause the Covid-19 vaccine rollout for healthy under 18s, while a thorough and independent safety review is undertaken. We urge you to reconsider their deployment for the following reasons:
In short, the balance of benefit and risk, used to support the rollout of mRNA vaccines to the elderly and vulnerable in 2021, is inappropriate and inapplicable for children in 2022.
Below are links to all the fully referenced letters we have written to the MHRA, the JCVI and the CMOs over the past sixteen months. The detailed questions posed have never been properly addressed by these regulators. You may be aware that members of the Pandemic Response All Party Parliamentary Group also wrote to the JCVI in January 2022, regarding the documented increase in all-cause mortality in 15-19-year-old males, again with no satisfactory reply addressing their concerns.
Groups of health professionals from around the world have similar concerns and indeed some countries have already paused children’s Covid-19 vaccines, particularly for those who have already had SARS-CoV-2 infection. The Danish Minister of Health recently declared that vaccinating children had been a mistake and has withdrawn it for healthy children. It is gratifying to see that in the UK the vaccine rollout for healthy 5-11s has been discontinued last week, but this leaves 12-17-years-olds still in an unnecessary programme.
The health of the nation’s children is of paramount concern and must surely be a high priority for an incoming Prime Minister. You will no doubt be aware of Sir Christopher Chope’s tireless work on a Covid-19 Vaccine Damage Bill,pushing for proper and fair compensation for thousands of vaccine-damaged adults. You cannot allow the risk of Covid-19 vaccine injuries in children, who stand to gain zero benefit from vaccination due to the overwhelming majority having already been infected, and who have therefore already acquired natural immunity.
We entreat you to apply the precautionary principle to the use of these products, which still have no long-term safety data and remain in Phase 3 clinical trials. The evidence of damage that this rushed policy is causing for children mounts daily.
In addition to concerns about the physical risk to children posed by these mRNA products, we would also remind you of the acknowledged and significant psychological and educational damage to children which resulted from the school closures and masking requirements implemented by your predecessor. We would ask that, as a matter of urgency, you make clear that school closures and masking of schoolchildren will not be repeated under your watch.
At the beginning of your term as Prime Minister, you have a critical opportunity to prevent avoidable damage to children, and the inevitable outcry and backlash that will follow, by pausing the rollout with immediate effect, as well as bringing to an end all harmful covid restrictions in schools. This is a risk-free action. Until then, the political and health risks of these damaging policies will only escalate.
We eagerly await your response.
Wishing you well in the challenging job you have ahead.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Rosamond Jones, MBBS, MD, FRCPCH, retired consultant paediatrician,
on behalf of members of CCVAC (Children’s Covid Vaccines Advisory Council) and many others…
| CCVAC members | |
| Professor Anthony J Brookes | Professor of Genomics and Health Data Science, University of Leicester |
| Professor Angus Dalgleish | MD, FRCP, FRACP, FRCPath, FMed Sci, Principal, Institute for Cancer Vaccines & Immunotherapy (ICVI) |
| Professor Richard Ennos | MA, PhD. Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh |
| Professor John Fairclough | FRCS FFSEM, retired Honorary Consultant Surgeon |
| Professor Norman Fenton | CEng, CMath, PhD, FBCS, MIET, Professor of Risk Information Management, Queen Mary University of London |
| Prof Anthony Fryer | PhD, FRCPath, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Keele University |
| Professor David Livermore | BSc, PhD, retired Professor of Medical Microbiology |
| Professor Dennis McGonagle | PhD, FRCPI, Consultant Rheumatologist, University of Leeds |
| Professor Keith Willison | PhD, Professor of Chemical Biology, Imperial College, London |
| Lord Moonie | MBChB, MRCPsych, MFCM, MSc, retired member of the House of Lords, former parliamentary under-secretary of state 2001-2003, former consultant in Public Health Medicine |
| Dr Sonia Allum | MBChB, FRCA, Consultant anaesthetist |
| Julie Annakin | RN, Immunisation Specialist Nurse |
| Dr Abby Astle | MBBChir, BA(Cantab), DCH, DGM, MRCGP, GP Principal, GP Trainer, GP Examiner |
| Dr Elyse Baril-Guerard | MD, CCFP, MRCGP, General Practitioner |
| Dr Michael Bazlinton | MBCHB MRCGP DCH, General Practitioner |
| Dr David Bell | MBBS, PhD, FRCP(UK), Public Health Physician |
| Dr Mark A Bell | MBChB, MRCP(UK), FRCEM, Consultant in Emergency Medicine |
| Dr Michael D Bell | MBChB, MRCGP, retired General Practitioner |
| Dr Alan Black | MBBS, MSc, DipPharmMed, retired Pharmaceutical Physician |
| Dr David Bramble | MBChB, MRCPsych, MD, Consultant Psychiatrist |
| Dr Emma Brierly | MBBS, MRCGP, General Practitioner |
| Kim Bull | Foundation Degree in Paramedic Science, Paramedic |
| Mr John Bunni | MBChB (Hons), Dip Lap Surg, FRCS [ASGBI Medal] – Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon |
| Dr Elizabeth Burton | MB ChB, retired General Practitioner |
| Dr David Cartland | MBChB, BMedSci, General practitioner |
| Dr Peter Chan | BM, MRCS, MRCGP, NLP, General Practitioner, Functional medicine |
| Dr Marco Chiesa, | MD, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Visiting Professor |
| Michael Cockayne | MSc, PGDip, SCPHNOH, BA, RN, Occupational Health Practitioner |
| Dr Julie Coffey | MBChB, General Practitioner |
| RN, Specialist Nurse Practitioner, retired | |
| Mr Ian F Comaish | MA, BM BCh, FRCOphth, FRANZCO, Consultant Ophthalmologist |
| James Cook | NHS Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Nursing (Hons), Master of Public Health |
| Dr Clare Craig | BMBCh, FRCPath, Diagnostic Pathologist |
| Dr David Critchley | BSc, PhD in Pharmacology, 32 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical R&D |
| Dr Sue de Lacy | MBBS MRCGP AFMCP UK, Integrative Medicine Doctor |
| Dr Jayne LM Donegan | MBBS, DRCOG, DCH, DFFP, MRCGP, Homeopathic Practitioner |
| Dr Damien Downing | MBBS, MRSB, private physician |
| Dr Jonathan Eastwood | General Practitioner, BSc MB ChB MRCGP |
| Dr Jonathan Engler | MBChB, LlB (hons), DipPharmMed |
| Dr Elizabeth Evans | MA(Cantab), MBBS, DRCOG, retired Doctor, Director UKMFA |
| Dr Christopher Exley | PhD FRSB, retired professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry |
| Dr John Flack | BPharm, PhD, retired Director of Safety Evaluation at Beecham Pharmaceuticals, retired Senior Vice-president for Drug Discovery SmithKline Beecham |
| Dr Charles Forsyth | MBBS, BSEM, Independent Medical Practitioner |
| Dr Simon Fox | BSc, BMBCh, FRCP, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine |
| Dr Jenny Goodman | MA, MBChB, Ecological Medicine |
| Dr Ali Haggett | Mental health community work, 3rd sector, former lecturer in the history of medicine |
| David Halpin | MB BS FRCS, Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon (retired) |
| Dr Catherine Hatton | MBChB, General Practitioner |
| Mr Anthony Hinton | MBChB, FRCS, Consultant ENT surgeon, London |
| Dr Renée Hoenderkampf | General Practitioner |
| Dr Andrew Isaac | MB BCh, Physician, retired |
| Dr Steve James | MBBS, MA, FRCA, FFICM, Critical Care Consultant |
| Dr Keith Johnson | BA, DPhil (Oxon), IP Consultant for Diagnostic Testing |
| Dr Pauline Jones | MB BS, Retired General Practitioner |
| Dr Gemma Kemp | MBBS, FRCPath, Consultant Forensic Pathologist |
| Dr Tanya Klymenko | PhD, FHEA, FIBMS, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences |
| Dr Charles Lane | MA, DPhil, Molecular Biologist |
| Dr Branko Latinkic | BSc, PhD, Molecular Biologist |
| Dr Caroline Lapworth | MBChB General Practitioner |
| Dr Theresa Lawrie | MBBCh, PhD, Director, Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd, Bath |
| Dr Jason Lester | MRCP, FRCR, Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
| Dr Felicity Lillingstone | IMD DHS PhD ANP, Doctor, Urgent Care, Research Fellow |
| Mr Malcolm Loudon | MBChB, MD, FRCSEd, FRCS(Gen Surg), MIHM,VR, Consultant Surgeon |
| Katherine MacGilchrist | BSc (Hons), MSc, CEO/Systematic Review Director, Epidemica Ltd |
| Dr Geoffrey Maidment | MBBS, MD, FRCP, Consultant physician, retired |
| Ahmad K Malik | FRCS(Tr & Orth) Dip Med Sport, Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| Dr Ayiesha Malik | MBChB, General Practitioner |
| Dr Kulvinder Singh Manik | MBBS, General Practitioner |
| Dr Fiona Martindale | MBChB, MRCGP, General Practitioner |
| Dr Julie Maxwell | MBBCh, MRCPCH, Associate Specialist Community Paediatrician |
| Dr S McBride | BSc(Hons) Medical Microbiology & Immunobiology, MBBCh BAO, MSc in Clinical Gerontology, MRCP(UK), FRCEM, FRCP(Edinburgh). NHS Emergency Medicine & geriatrics |
| Mr Ian McDermott | MBBS, MS, FRCS(Tr&Orth), FFSEM(UK), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| Dr Scott McLachlan | FAIDH, MCSE, MCT, DSysEng, LLM, MPhil, Postdoctoral researcher |
| Dr Manjul Medhi | MBChB MRCP DTM&H, Consultant in Infectious Disaeases and General Medicine |
| Dr Franziska Meuschel | MD, ND, PhD, LFHom, BSEM, Nutritional, Environmental and Integrated Medicine |
| Dr Scott Mitchell | MBChB, MRCS, Emergency Medicine Physician |
| Dr Alan Mordue | MBChB, FFPH. Retired Consultant in Public Health Medicine & Epidemiology |
| Dr David Morris | MBChB, MRCP(UK), General Practitioner |
| Dr Claire Mottram | BSc Hons, MBChB, Doctor in General Practice |
| Margaret Moss | MA(Cantab), CBiol, MRSB, Director, The Nutrition and Allergy Clinic, Cheshire |
| Dr Alice Murkies | MD, FRACGP, MBBS, General Practitioner |
| Dr Greta Mushet | MBChB, MRCPsych, retired Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy |
| Dr Sarah Myhill | MBBS, retired GP and Naturopathic Physician |
| Mr Colin Natali | BSc(hons) MBBS, FRCS (Orth), Consultant Spinal Surgeon |
| Dr Chris Newton | PhD, Biochemist working in immuno-metabolism |
| Dr Rachel Nicholl | PhD, Medical researcher |
| Dr Richard J O’Shea | MBBCh, BA(Hons) MRCGP, General Practitioner |
| Sue Parker Hall | certified transactional analyst (CTA, psychotherapy); MSc (Counselling & Supervision) MBACP (senior accredited practitioner); EMDR practitioner, Psychotherapist |
| Dr Dean Patterson | MBChB, FRCP, Consultant Cardiologist |
| Dr Christina Peers | MBBS, DRCOG, DFSRH, FFSRH, Menopause specialist |
| Rev Dr William J U Philip | MB ChB, MRCP, BD, Senior Minister The Tron Church, Glasgow, formerly physician specialising in cardiology |
| Anna Phillips | RSCN, BSc Hons, Clinical Lead Trainer Clinical Systems (Paediatric Intensive Care) |
| Dr Angharad Powell | MBChB, BSc (hons), DFRSH, DCP (Ireland), DRCOG, DipOccMed, MRCGP, General Practitioner |
| Dr Gerry Quinn | PhD. Postdoctoral researcher in microbiology and immunology |
| Dr Johanna Reilly | MBBS, General Practitioner |
| Jessica Righart | MSc, MIBMS, Senior Critical Care Scientist |
| Mr Angus Robertson | BSc, MB ChB, FRCSEd (Tr & Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| Dr Jessica Robinson | BSc(Hons), MBBS, MRCPsych, MFHom, Psychiatrist and Integrative Medicine Doctor |
| Dr Jon Rogers | MB ChB (Bristol), Retired General Practitioner |
| Mr James Royle | MBChB, FRCS, MMedEd, Colorectal surgeon |
| Dr Salmaan Saleem | MBBS, BMedSci, MRCGP, General Practitioner |
| Dr Roland Salmon | MB BS, MRCGP, FFPH, Former Director, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre Wales |
| Sorrel Scott | Grad Dip Phys, Specialist Physiotherapist in Neurology, 30 years in NHS |
| Dr Rohaan Seth | BSc (hons), MBChB (hons), MRCGP, Retired General Practitioner |
| Dr Haleema Sheikh | MRCGP, General Practitioner |
| Dr Gary Sidley | retired NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist |
| Dr Annabel Smart | MBBS, BSc, retired General Practitioner |
| Natalie Stephenson | BSc (Hons) Paediatric Audiologist |
| Dr Zenobia Storah | MA (Oxon), Dip Psych, DClinPsy, Senior Clinical Psychologist (Child and Adolescent) |
| Dr Noel Thomas | MA, MBChB, DCH, DObsRCOG, DTM&H, MFHom, retired doctor |
| Dr Stephen Ting | MB CHB, MRCP, PhD, Consultant Physician |
| Dr Julian Tompkinson | MBChB MRCGP, General Practitioner, GP trainer PCME |
| Suzanne Tomkinson | BSc, MSc, CSci, FIBMS, Senior Biomedical Scientist (Clinical Biochemistry) |
| Dr Livia Tossici-Bolt | PhD, Clinical Scientist |
| Dr Helen Westwood | MBChB, MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG, General Practitioner |
| Dr Carmen Wheatley | DPhil, Orthomolecular Oncology |
| Mr Lasantha Wijesinghe | FRCS, Consultant Vascular Surgeon |
| Dr Damian Wilde | PhD, (Chartered) Specialist Clinical Psychologist |
| Dr Ruth Wilde | MB BCh, MRCEM, AFMCP, Integrative & Functional Medicine Doctor |
| Dr Lucie Wilk | MD, Consultant Rheumatologist |
| Dr Stefanie Williams | MD, Dermatologist |
| Dr Holly Young | BSc, MBChB, MRCP, Consultant Palliative Care Medicine |
| Other signatories | Health professionals and scientists |
| Zuzana Herbst Manton | Registered Nurse |
| Dr M Syeda | General Practitioner, MRCGP |
| Jane Philebrown | RGN, Triage/Practice Nurse |
| Charlotte | Occupational Therapist |
| Rachelle brown | Physiotherapist |
| Caroline Bright | Registered Nurse-Theatres |
| Jonathan Cleary | MBBS, MRCGP, FRACGP, FACRRM. General Practitioner |
| Josephine Tucker | SRN (retired) and UKCP registered Psycotherapist (Self Employed) |
| Cristina Gastaldi | Acupuncture Pain Clinic |
| Kelly Allen | Senior Nursing Sister RNC |
| Suki Clarke | Midwife |
| Emma | Maternity HCA |
| Jane | Health Visitor Registered Nurse |
| Joanna Barker | RMN |
| Nikki Tapal | Phlebotomy manager |
| Natalia Day | Nurse |
| Dr Ross C Worthington | Sports Medicine, BM BCh |
| Amanda STANIER | Nurse RGN |
| Kellie Morriss | Senior Health Care Assistant/Student NA |
| Amanda Cairns | SCPHN MSc (OH) |
| Cassandra Hamilton | Student Nurse |
| Ellen Calteau | Registered Dietitian HCPC registered |
| Trudy Griffiths | Care and support worker |
| Julie Tasker | Complementary Therapist and retired Tutor |
| Jeanne Van der Weyden | Occupational Health Nurse, Certificate in Tropical Diseases, Midwife (not practising) |
| Rosie Roberts | Pharmacy Technician |
| Ameena Lewis | NHS BLOODS TRANSPORT |
| Dr Neil K Gibbs | BSc MPhil PhD FRSB, Biomedical Scientist |
| Paul Seddon | General practitioner BSc MBBS DCH DRCOG DOcc Med MRCGP |
| Charlotte Gowers | Occupational Therapist |
| Dr Graham Milne | MB ChB, General Practitioner |
| Dare Mason | Psychotherapist, DipPsych, BSc |
| Paula Charnley | Psychotherapist |
| Dr Christian Buckland | Psychotherapist, Psych(D), UKCP, MBACP, MUPCA |
| Vanessa Churchill | Chiropractor/Homeopath, BSc (Chiro) DC LHM |
| Hilary Hull | Therapy Radiographer |
| Louise Priestman | Registered Nurse |
| Vicky Norris | Carer |
| David Nash | Registered Nurse |
| Dr Rajendra Sharma | MB BCh BAO LRCP&S(Ire) MFHom, Private Physician. |
| Raine Marshall | Mental health nurse |
| Samantha Lomas | Counsellor |
| Stephen Jones | Occupational Therapist. BHSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy |
| Fiona Crowhurst | Retired Registered General Nurse |
| Lynette Daly | Retired Midwife |
| Janice Giddy | BA Hons Counselling. Retired staff counsellor NHS |
| Dr Kevin P Corbett | Retired RN and PhD health scientist |
| Dr Robert John Durling | Dental Surgeon |
| Kim Griffin | |
| Veronica De Luca | Senior Nurse/Sister |
| Debbie Wells | Cardiac associate practitioner |
| Nadina Holden | RN Adult & NICU Specialist BSc Hons |
| Sally Johns Green MBACP | Counsellor/Play therapist, Diploma in Professional Studies |
| Elaine | Haematology Sister |
| Brian Howard D.O. | Osteopath |
| Iain McWilliam Leith | Retired GP then independent doctor |
| Ann Helena Robinson | HCA MRI and CT Scanning |
| Dr Emma Gillett DC | Chiropractor |
| Mrs Susan Stanley | SRN, SCM, (Retired Midwife) |
| Christina Spyratou | Specialist Registrar in Urology |
| Dr Anne Catherine Priestley | Retired NHS GP MB BS, MRCP (UK). |
| Julia Jacques | Staff nurse |
| Catherine Turner | Chartered Physiotherapist |
| Lucia Bruno | Nursing Associate |
| Kerry | Dental Nurse |
| Julia | RN Adult Nurse |
| Claire Buchanan | Staff nurse, DipHE nursing (child) |
| Rachel Simpson | Senior I MR/CT Radiographer – BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography |
| Tiziana Bertinotti | Doctor of TCM, Acupuncture Clinician, BHSc (Acu), BA (Hons), PGCE |
| Heather | Occupational Therapist |
| Jannah van der Pol | General Practitioner |
| Tony Ripping | Senior Mental Health Practitioner (RMN) |
| Dr Gillian Breese | General Practitioner BSc MB ChB DFFP DTM&H |
| Dr Jessica Engler | Trainee GP, MBChB, BSc (Hons) |
| Sarah Waters | Psychotherapist |
| Damien Cominos | Paramedic |
| Penny Senner | Registered adult nurse. District nursing |
| Joanne Hill | Registered Nurse, staff nurse NHS |
| Hannah Januszczyk | Pharmacist |
| Ela Buzaljko | Trainee Nurse Assistant |
| June Tranmer | Acupuncturist – member of AAC |
| Jacqui Crago | Radiographer. BAppSc (Medical Imaging) |
| Carol Fitzroy-Bent | Lead Pharmacy Technician, BTech Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Margaret Stroud | BDS, BSc (Hons) |
| Karen Moore | Registered Nurse |
| Joanne Lee | Dip NT |
| Nichola Davies | RMN BSc Mental Health Nursing |
| Dr Richard Screen | Emergency Medicine Doctor, MBChB, BSc (Hons) |
| Diane Doody | Social prescriber |
| Helen Hardwick | Specialist Nurse Critical Care, Bsc(Hons)Nursing Studies, Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling |
| Evphi Kalkantera | Parkinsons Nurse Specialist |
| Allison Nicholls | Registered mental health nurse |
| Christine Campbell | Community nurse Degree |
| Sue Cook | Clinic Director |
| Dr Helen McArdle | General Practitioner, BSc (Hons) MBChB (Hons) MRCP, MRCGP, DRCOG, DipDerm |
| Mandy Sparks | |
| Suzanne Barlow | |
| Olivia Hene | |
| Yasmeen Islam | Senior Staff Nurse |
| Fr Giles Pinnock | Lead Hospital Chaplain |
| David White | MBChB retired GP |
| Emily Whewell | Paediatric Nurse |
| Danielle Jayne Lowes | Paramedic |
| Alan Baird | Retired dentist, BDS |
| Theresa Mounsey | Registered Midwife |
| Dave Millard | Mental health nurse |
| Dr Azeezah Isaacs | Dentist BChD |
| Charles Abduraghmaan | Dentist, BChD |
| Robert Laroche | Registered nurse |
| Kate Hatton | Nurse Advisor RN, SCPHN |
| Ioana Pelican | General dental practitioner |
| Dr Saloni | Consultant, MBBCh, PhD, BSc |
| Annabel Acheson-Gray | Physiotherapist in private practice |
| Lisa Wadd | Stroke Specialist, SLT BSc |
| Tim Green | PhD Biochemist |
| Paul Ascou | Paramedic |
| Gabriella Holland | Student of Naturopathic Nutrition |
| Jane Feeney | Child & Family Psychotherapist, MA psych |
| Ishah Johns | Band 6 Paediatric Nurse |
| Wendy Babbidge | Staff Nurse |
| Louise Ferguson | Health Visitor – Specialist Community Public Health Nurse |
| Dr John Harrison | PhD, FDSRCSEng, FRCPath, Retired Consultant Pathologist |
| Claire E Adam | Registered nurse, BSc (Hons) |
| Alicja | MSc BioChem, ANutr |
| Dr John Isaacs | MBChB, retired General Practitioner |
| Julia Horton | Administrator, NHS trust |
| Jonathan Broughton | Surgical care practitioner, registered Nurse BSC MSC |
| Allan Frederick Rogers | Senior Occupational Therapist, BSc (Hons) |
| Andrew Widdrington | Clinical lead, sedationist, dental surgeon, BDS PGDip Sed |
| Jane Lamey | Retired District Nurse and Practice Nurse. |
| Helen Mary Hedderman | |
| Shereena Hamilton | Mental Health Support Worker |
| Justine Millard-Case | Registered General Nurse |
| Julieann Currie | RNLD, RSCN |
| Sarah Thorpe | Paramedic |
| Christine Grist | Adult Nurse DipHE |
| Demetrios Jimmy Pellas | Registered nurse, independent Prescriber |
| Richard House, PhD, CPsychol | Chartered psychologist (BPS), retired Senior University Lecturer in Psychology (Roehampton) and psychotherapist |
| Anna Ducharme | Retired General Practitioner |
| Helen Auburn | Nutritional therapist Dip ION |
| Susan Bedford | Specialist Nurse, RGN |
| Magdalena Stasiak-horkan | General Practitioner |
| Fiona Jones | BSc(hons) DipPreSci PGCert Med Ed, FRPharmS, Retired Clinical Pharmacist |
| Carolyn Polunin | Integrative Psychotherapist MSc in Private Practice |
| Simona Panaitescu | Psychologist |
| Joyce Killerby | Retired Registered General Nurse |
| Dr Ada Nelson-Iye | MBChB |
| Michelle Mason | Mental Health Nurse RMN |
| Sheena Fraser | General Practitioner |
| Natalie Hardy | Pharmacy Technician NVQ 3 in Pharmacy Services |
| Mariana Ferreira ds Silva e Sousa | Physiotherapist |
| Kristina Thistlethwaite | Dental care professional |
| W Gordon Brydon | Retired Clinical Scientist PhD |
| Karen Thompson | Staff Nurse RGN |
| Nicholas Peter Lee | Director and RGN (OH SCPHN), BN (Hons), BSc (Hons) |
| Isabella Jane Ruth Watson | SRN SCM (retired) |
| Vasileios Grigoriou | RGN |
| Miss K Hicken | midwife and licensed acupuncturist. |
| Anne Renfrew | MB,ChB retired obstetrician/gynaecologist and general practitioner |
| Simon Williams | Retired Doctor |
| Nigel Addison | Specialist Nurse Practitioner RGN, DipOH, MHSc |
| Andrew Philip Walker | BDS retired general dental practitioner |
| Philip Austin | Administration |
| Lisa | Occupational therapist |
| Alex Baker | Adult Nurse |
| Maria Capri | Midwife |
| Sunita Karnik | Speech & Language Therapist (retired) |
| John Sherwood | Pharmacist BPharm MRPHARMS |
| Anna | Specialist Occupational Therapist |
| Hannah Barson | Occupational Therapist |
| Samantha Lees | Clinical Nurse Specialist RMN |
| Kelly Edwards | Registered Children’s Nurse |
| Joanna Harrison | Neuro Occupational Therapist Grad Diploma |
| Naomi Riddel | CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist, BSc, MSc, MBBCh, MRCPsych |
| Elissa Harper | Staff Nurse |
| Dr Hugh Pollard | Retired GP. MB BS DRCOG |
| Lisa McGrow | Midwife |
| Helen Wood | Occupational therapist |
| Janina Iszatt | RGN |
| Anna Marie Macdoo | Nursing |
| Maria Horton | Occupational Therapist (BSc hons) |
| Wendy Kellett | retired graduate nurse |
| Dr Ricky Freeman | BM, General Practitioner |
| Maud Malone | Podiatrist |
| Dr Stephen Mounce | Research Fellow, Expert in modelling, data science, RT-PCR |
| Stuart Guy | HMHW, M(Res), RN – Lecturer in Nursing |
| Andrea Halewood | Psychotherapist, BACP |
| Dr Ross Worthington | BM BCh retired General Practitioner |
| Dr Miles Davidson | MBChB, General Practitioner PCN Vaccination Lead |
| Dr Stuart Morgan | General Practitioner, MBBS |
| Mr Colin Petherick | FDS, MBBCh, Oral Surgeon |
| Sandra Marks | SRN SCM RHV, Rtd Health Visitor |
| Fiona Murdoch | PSA registered Acupuncturist |
| Anne Jebb | Chartered Physiotherapist |
| Luke Jezeph | Nutritional Therapist BANT CNHC Dip CNM |
| Roger Meacock BVSc MRCVS | Veterinarian and human practitioner |
| Sarah Silver | Level II Health & Nutrition |
| Nicola Massey | Nutritional Consultant |
| Damien Bush MRCVS | Director, Downs Veterinary Practice Ltd. RCVS Recignised Advanced Practitioner Small Animal Surgery |
| Claire Wainwright | Senior Biomedical Scientist (retired) |
| Rosemary Poppitt | Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife, BA Hons (retired) |
| Ann Mills | Retired nurse |
| Poppy Bagley | Registered Children’s Nurse |
| Dr Aileen O’Kane | |
| David Phillips | Dentist,BDS Wales 1986 |
| Millicent Rose Mairs | Healthcare Assistant |
| G Fairly | BN Adult Nursing Oncology |
| Dr David Owen Yates | General Practitioner |
| Rowena Felipe | CNS for ACS/Angina |
| Judith Halden | Speech and language therapist |
| Mary Jane Lauigan | Oncology research nurse |
| L Molina | Paediatric Coordinator/Nurse |
| Sara Dale | Homeopath – Advanced diploma in Homeopathy |
| Abigail Drew | Biomedical Scientist |
| Dr Michael Russell Evans | MB ChB (Bristol) General Practitioner |
| Amanda Henning | Practice Nurse |
| Susannah Robinson | MBBS, BSc, MRCP, MRCGP, General Practitioner |
Any additional UK health professionals are welcome to add their signatures via the link here.
[1] Updated analysis of deaths in males 15-19 years of age – HART (hartgroup.org)
Dr June Raine, CEO MHRA
Professor Lim Wei Shen, Chairman JCVI COVID-19 vaccines sub-committee
Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer
Dr Jenny Harries, CEO, UKHSA
Hon.Sajid Javid, MP, Secretary of State for Health & Social Care
30th June 2022
Dear Dr Raine,
Re: Covid-19 vaccines for 6 months to 4 years age group
We are writing to you urgently concerning the announcement that the FDA has granted an Emergency Use Authorisation for both Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines in preschool children.
We would urge you to consider very carefully the move to vaccinate ever younger and younger children against SARS-CoV-2, despite the gradual but significant reducing virulence of successive variants, the increasing evidence of rapidly waning vaccine efficacy, the increasing concerns over long-term vaccine harms, and the knowledge that the vast majority of this young age group have already been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 repeatedly and have demonstrably effective immunity. Thus, the balance of benefit and risk which supported the rollout of mRNA vaccines to the elderly and vulnerable in 2021, is totally inappropriate for small children in 2022.
We also strongly challenge the addition of Covid-19 vaccination into the routine child immunisation programme,[i]despite no demonstrated clinical need, known and unknown risks (see below) and the fact that these vaccines still have only conditional marketing authorisation.
It is noteworthy that the Pfizer documentation[ii] presented to the FDA has huge gaps in the evidence provided:
It is incomprehensible that the FDA considered that this represents sufficient evidence on which to base a decision to vaccinate healthy children. When it comes to safety, the data is even thinner: only 1057 children, some already unblinded, were followed for just 2 months. It is noteworthy that Sweden and Norway are not recommending the vaccine for 5-11s and Holland is not recommending it for children who have already had Covid-19. The director of the Danish Health and Medicines Authority stated recently that with what is now known, the decision to vaccinate children was a mistake.[iii]
We summarise below the overwhelming arguments against this vaccination.
A. Extremely low risk from Covid-19 to young children
B. Poor vaccine efficacy
C. Potential harms of Covid-19 vaccines for children
D. Informed consent
E. Effect on public confidence
In summary, young healthy children are at minimal risk from Covid-19, especially since the arrival of the Omicron variant. Most have been repeatedly exposed to SARS-CoV-2 virus, yet have remained well, or have had short, mild illness. As detailed above, the vaccines are of brief efficacy, have known short- to medium-term risks and unknown long-term safety. Data for clinically useful efficacy in small children are scant or absent. In older children, for whom they are already licensed, they have been promoted via ethically dubious schemes to the potential detriment of other, and vital, parts of the childhood vaccination programme.
For a tiny minority of children for whom the potential for benefit clearly and unequivocally outweighed the potential for harm, vaccination could have been facilitated by restrictive licences. Whether following the precautionary principle or the instruction to First Do No Harm, such vaccines have no place in a routine childhood immunisation programme.
Professor Angus Dalgleish, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FRCPath, FMed Sci, Principal, Institute for
Cancer Vaccines & Immunotherapy (ICVI)
Prof Anthony Fryer, PhD, FRCPath, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Keele University
Professor David Livermore, BSc, PhD, Retired Professor of Medical Microbiology, UEA
Professor John Fairclough FRCS FFSEM retired Honorary Consultant Surgeon
Lord Moonie, MBChB, MRCPsych, MFCM, MSc, House of Lords, former parliamentary under-
secretary of state 2001-2003, former consultant in Public Health Medicine
Dr Abby Astle, MA(Cantab), MBBChir, GP Principal, GP Trainer, GP Examiner
Dr Michael D Bell, MBChB, MRCGP, retired General Practitioner
Dr Alan Black, MBBS, MSc, DipPharmMed, Retired Pharmaceutical Physician
Dr David Bramble, MBChB, MRCPsych, MD, Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Emma Brierly, MBBS, MRCGP, General Practitioner
Dr David Cartland, MBChB, BMedSci, General practitioner
Dr Peter Chan, BM, MRCS, MRCGP, NLP, General Practitioner, Functional medicine
practitioner
Michael Cockayne, MSc, PGDip, SCPHNOH, BA, RN, Occupational Health Practitioner
Julie Coffey, MBChB, General Practitioner
John Collis, RN, Specialist Nurse Practitioner, retired
Mr Ian F Comaish, MA, BM BCh, FRCOphth, FRANZCO, Consultant Ophthalmologist
James Cook, NHS Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Nursing (Hons), Master of Public Health
Dr Clare Craig, BMBCh, FRCPath, Pathologist
Dr David Critchley, BSc, PhD in Pharmacology, 32 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical R&D
Dr Jonathan Engler, MBChB, LlB (hons), DipPharmMed
Dr Elizabeth Evans, MA(Cantab), MBBS, DRCOG, Retired Doctor
Dr John Flack, BPharm, PhD, retired Director of Safety Evaluation at Beecham Pharmaceuticals and retired Senior Vice-president for Drug Discovery SmithKline Beecham
Dr Simon Fox, BSc, BMBCh, FRCP, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine
Dr Ali Haggett, Mental health community work, 3rd sector, former lecturer in the history of
medicine
David Halpin, MB BS FRCS, Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon (retired)
Dr Renée Hoenderkampf, General Practitioner
Dr Andrew Isaac, MB BCh, Physician, retired
Dr Steve James, Consultant Intensive Care
Dr Keith Johnson, BA, DPhil (Oxon), IP Consultant for Diagnostic Testing
Dr Rosamond Jones, MBBS, MD, FRCPCH, retired consultant paediatrician
Dr Tanya Klymenko, PhD, FHEA, FIBMS, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
Dr Charles Lane, MA, DPhil, Molecular Biologist
Dr Branko Latinkic, BSc, PhD, Molecular Biologist
Dr Felicity Lillingstone, IMD DHS PhD ANP, Doctor, Urgent Care, Research Fellow
Dr Theresa Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD, Director, Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd, Bath
Katherine MacGilchrist, BSc (Hons), MSc, CEO/Systematic Review Director, Epidemica Ltd.
Dr Geoffrey Maidment, MBBS, MD, FRCP, Consultant physician, retired
Ahmad K Malik FRCS (Tr & Orth) Dip Med Sport, Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr Kulvinder Singh Manik, MBBS, General Practitioner
Dr Fiona Martindale, MBChB, MRCGP, General Practitioner
Dr S McBride, BSc(Hons) Medical Microbiology & Immunobiology, MBBCh BAO, MSc in Clinical
Gerontology, MRCP(UK), FRCEM, FRCP(Edinburgh). NHS Emergency Medicine & geriatrics
Mr Ian McDermott, MBBS, MS, FRCS(Tr&Orth), FFSEM(UK), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr Franziska Meuschel, MD, ND, PhD, LFHom, BSEM, Nutritional, Environmental and Integrated Medicine
Dr Scott Mitchell, MBChB, MRCS, Emergency Medicine Physician
Dr Alan Mordue, MBChB, FFPH. Retired Consultant in Public Health Medicine & Epidemiology
Dr David Morris, MBChB, MRCP(UK), General Practitioner
Margaret Moss, MA (Cantab), CBiol, MRSB, Director, The Nutrition and Allergy Clinic, Cheshire
Dr Alice Murkies, MD FRACGP MBBS, General Practitioner
Dr Greta Mushet, MBChB, MRCPsych, retired Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy
Dr Sarah Myhill, MBBS, retired GP and Naturopathic Physician
Dr Rachel Nicholl, PhD, Medical researcher
Sue Parker Hall, certified transactional analyst (CTA, psychotherapy); MSc (Counselling &
Supervision) MBACP (senior accredited practitioner); EMDR practitioner, Psychotherapist
Dr Christina Peers, MBBS, DRCOG, DFSRH, FFSRH, Menopause specialist
Rev Dr William J U Philip MB ChB, MRCP, BD, Senior Minister The Tron Church, Glasgow,
formerly physician specialising in cardiology
Dr Angharad Powell, MBChB, BSc (hons), DFRSH, DCP (Ireland), DRCOG, DipOccMed,
MRCGP, General Practitioner
Dr Gerry Quinn, PhD. Postdoctoral researcher in microbiology and immunology
Dr Johanna Reilly, MBBS, General Practitioner
Jessica Righart, MSc, MIBMS, Senior Critical Care Scientist
Mr Angus Robertson, BSc, MB ChB, FRCSEd (Tr & Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr Jessica Robinson, BSc(Hons), MBBS, MRCPsych, MFHom, Psychiatrist and Integrative
Medicine Doctor
Dr Jon Rogers, MB ChB (Bristol), Retired General Practitioner
Mr James Royle, MBChB, FRCS, MMedEd, Colorectal surgeon
Dr Roland Salmon, MB BS, MRCGP, FFPH, Former Director, Communicable Disease
Surveillance Centre Wales
Sorrel Scott, Grad Dip Phys, Specialist Physiotherapist in Neurology, 30 years in NHS
Dr Rohaan Seth, BSc (hons), MBChB (hons), MRCGP, Retired General Practitioner
Dr Gary Sidley, retired NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Dr Annabel Smart, MBBS, retired General Practitioner
Natalie Stephenson, BSc (Hons) Paediatric Audiologist
Dr Zenobia Storah, MA (Oxon), Dip Psych, DClinPsy, Senior Clinical Psychologist (Child and
Adolescent)
Dr Julian Tompkinson, MBChB MRCGP, General Practitioner GP trainer PCME
Dr Noel Thomas, MA, MBChB, DCH, DObsRCOG, DTM&H, MFHom, retired doctor
Dr Stephen Ting, MB CHB, MRCP, PhD, Consultant Physician
Dr Livia Tossici-Bolt, PhD, Clinical Scientist
Dr Carmen Wheatley, DPhil, Orthomolecular Oncology
Dr Helen Westwood MBChB MRCGP DCH DRCOG, General Practitioner
Mr Lasantha Wijesinghe, FRCS, Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Dr Damian Wilde, PhD (Chartered) Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Dr Ruth Wilde, MB BCh, MRCEM, AFMCP, Integrative & Functional Medicine Doctor
and others …..
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A panel of British professors, doctors and medical experts from the Children’s Covid Advisory Group (CCVAC) has presented new evidence about the unfavourable risk-benefit balance of the Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine for children.
At the official launch of the CCVAC at an event in London, the panel revealed:
The evidence was presented at 4pm yesterday, after the JCVI refused to accept delivery from CCVAC chair Dr Ros Jones of the new evidence, compiled from official sources in the UK and internationally.
Health Security Agency locks down
Just prior to the press conference, four members of the Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Council (CCVAC) visited the UKHSA headquarters of the JCVI in London, pre-agreed the day before by the UKHSA, to hand-deliver a letter written by 92 doctors, professors and scientists and co-signed by more than 700 healthcare professionals.
On arrival at the main entrance, the building that also houses the UK’s Health Security Agency, went into lockdown and the four doctors were denied access to the main reception for 40 minutes, along with all other visitors to the public building that spans 22 London postal addresses.
The letter was subsequently handed over to a security manager in the street outside the UKHSA by an intermediary.
The letter calls for a pause to the roll-out for children and an urgent investigation into new, concerning safety signals.
Dr Ros Jones, retired Consultant Paediatrician, said, “When assessing whether to give any medical intervention to children, it’s crucial to ensure that the benefit to the recipient clearly outweighs the risks. In this case, the latest evidence strongly suggests the risks for children may be greater than any possible benefit. On top of this, we do not yet know the long-term implications of the covid vaccinations for children’s immune function or their overall health.”
Professor David Livermore, Professor of Medical Microbiology at East Anglia University, said, “Having worked as Director of Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring for Public Health England for many years, the parallels with antibiotic resistance are clear. Using antibiotics when they are not needed increases the risk of antibiotic resistant strains spreading, for it gives them an advantage. The same risk applies with viruses and antibodies.
“Most of the young have been infected now. That is the best route to robust, lasting immunity for children, who have minimal risk of severe COVID. Vaccines give briefer, narrower, protection and are tailored to the Wuhan strain; they are leaky against omicron already. Using them where they aren’t needed is just encouraging the virus to evolve further, and unpredictably.”
Professor Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St George’s, University of London, said, “Whilst the vaccination for the initial variants clearly helped older and at risk patients, it is clear that young people have very effective T-cell responses (which wane in older patients), but which are very effective in protecting young people and children with the Omicron variant, giving minimum disease and very good immunity. The immunity is not only superior to any of the vaccines (with the majority of young people already exposed to natural infection) but there is clear evidence that vaccines in young adults and children are causing significant side effects with myocarditis occurring many more times than natural infection. It cannot therefore be justified to expose them to a vaccine that clearly gives unacceptable side effects in the short run and could be associated with significant long term harm.”
Dr Clare Craig, Diagnostic Pathologist said, “when there is no benefit to the children being vaccinated it is important to thoroughly investigate any signals of harm. There is a concerning signal of raised non-covid mortality in young men, of unknown cause, which needs investigating. Our experience of harm from Pandemrix vaccine after swine flu in 2009 should teach us that evidence of harm can take years to accumulate and apparently minor signals should not be ignored.”
Dr Elizabeth Evans, Director of the UK Medical Freedom Alliance discussed the ethics of giving Covid vaccines to children and highlighted the importance of the Hippocratic Oath to “First do no harm”. She said,
“The possibility of detrimental health effects coming to light after a few years is plausible and this is why the vaccine manufacturers requested – and were – granted full immunity from future side-effects.
“If this risk is significant enough for the manufacturers to be unwilling to accept economic risk, then we cannot allow our children to take the same health risk with their long-term health, especially when, for children, the benefits of doing so appear to be highly speculative.”
About the CCVAC
The Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Council is a panel of British scientists, doctors and medical experts, including several of the country’s leading professors in medicine, microbiology and risk, as well as specialists in public health, emergency medicine, paediatrics, infectious disease and primary care.
An analysis of ONS data has shown that children are 52 times more likely to die after a covid shot than ‘unvaccinated’ children. In addition, the data, shows that the risk increases rapidly for younger children, and for second doses.
According to an analysis by the Daily Expose, in the first 10 months of last year, Pfizer vaccinated teenagers between 15-19 years old were 200% more likely to die than untreated teenagers. Meanwhile, vaccinated children between 10-14 years old were 1,000% more likely to die than those children who did have a covid vaccination.
In addition, the analysis of the government’s official data (which you can read in full here) shows that the second vaccine shot radically increases the chances of death. After the second shot, the risk rises to 300% for the older teenagers, and 5,200% for those under 14 years – based on a death rate of 238 per 100,000 person years.
However, even this grossly understates the true risk for several reasons.
The figures include children between 10 and 11 years old, an age group that is not eligible for vaccination in the UK. In addition, deaths within two weeks after vaccination are added to the unvaccinated count, not the vaccinated count, even though about half of all vaccine deaths occur in this period.
The failure of the mainstream news services to report on this should be shocking, if it did not follow a consistent pattern of ignoring all evidence that would detract from the sale of pharmaceuticals and government policy.
In addition, the Daily Expose’s analysis was in spite of the recalcitrant behaviour of the ONS and obfuscation in its presentation and reporting. According to the Daily Expose, the ONS inadvertently released enough details on deaths along children and adults in its Deaths by Vaccination status dataset.
Furthermore, the UK government had been sitting on the data for more than a month, allowing children and teenagers to continue to be vaccinated, while secretly adding up the resulting deaths. For a disease that does not kill them.
It’s a wonderful thing to live in a country where the rules that govern our everyday lives are compatible with good sense and reason.
Most of us have taken that for granted, so we’ve not had to think: what should we do if the rules are irrational or, worse still, downright wrong?
Blind obedience is a virtue, but only for very young children. They know so little about the world and can be a danger to themselves and others. The criteria for a good baby or toddler is basically just that – compliance with adult wishes.
But absolute obedience stops becoming a virtue pretty quickly. For a toddler it’s fine, but no parent should be happy if their child still unquestioningly obeys them when they are 10. To thrive in the world as a responsible adult, they need to develop judgement, good sense and the courage to act on it in the face of ‘authority’.
In the modern age, whole societies periodically lapse into this infantile mode.
For this to happen, the groundwork must be laid: adults need a father figure. For a long-time this was God and religion, but these days of course, it’s the State. Outsourcing our personal responsibilities to the State begins when we vote for strength in the face of external threats; when we choose to display our ‘kindness’, not through acts of personal charity and sacrifice, but by paying more tax. Soon, people begin to identify their moral worth by how they vote rather than how they act in the world. Immolation to the State becomes a proxy for morality.
And so adults cease to be ‘consenting.’ They become – not children even – but infants, toddlers. Meanwhile, the State becomes ‘tyrannical father’ and ‘devouring mother’.
It’s untenable though, because, in a very real sense, there is no such thing as a ‘State’. Yes, there are instruments and machineries of power. But they are just wielded by other toddlers. If the State is the people, and the people are infantilised, then adult supervision is an illusion. No government or legal system, however august or ancient, can uphold moral rights when presided over by grown-up infants. In such a situation, reason gives way to the moral imperative of the creche: fear, jealousy and greed.
An inevitable consequence of adults behaving as children is that children must be treated as adults. It is therefore logical that they are given autonomy and decision-making power over whether to irrevocably change their hormones and sex, for example, or their genetic make-up via a novel drug.
During the French Revolution, there was a popular saying. “Revolutions devour their children.” It was not just a metaphor. Many children were executed by the French revolutionary state, and many more ‘unofficially’ massacred. (Children can be a real threat to ideologies, you know.) Infantile societies destroy their children too. It begins by removing their innocence, then their childhood, and if it persists, it ends in blood.
I’m reminded of those buffoons at international football matches and political shindigs last summer while tens of thousands of perfectly healthy children were locked at home ‘isolating’. Their parents and teachers were all following the rules and held their heads up in society for doing so.
And now we are entering, not the endgame, but perhaps the Squidgame. A risky pharmaceutical intervention to alter children’s genes. An unconscionable act with no plausible medical justification. It simply fulfils a deep psychological need among infantilised adults: to demonstrate State allegiance through child sacrifice. And let’s not forget, there’s the added kicker of being able to vacation abroad.
Make no mistake, every act of mindless compliance to nonsensical rules that every adult makes, trickles and then floods down on to children.
Every time you wear a mask, even though you know its efficacy has no basis in empiricism.
Every time you track-and-trace.
Every time you nod along to some virtue-signalling covid conversation.
Every time you submit your body to medical coercion, you deny to all children the freedoms you were born with and that our grandparents’ generation fought and died to protect.
You deny them the freedom to act out of conscience and personal responsibility, and the freedom to say ‘no’.
It’s not the State. There is no State. It’s me, and it’s you.
We are the problem.
Our compliance is violence.
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Ross Butler is founder of the Children’s Union
Monday, 17th January 2022
Dr Charmaine Griffiths
CEO, British Heart Foundation
Dear Charmaine,
Re: Questions concerning your TV advert and website
A number of our supporters asked me to get in touch with you, having seen your advert on television.
I watched the full version, called ‘This is science’, on your website. The main character is Sophie, a teenager who collapses on a soccer pitch, as her mother screams her name, and she drops to the floor, lifeless eyes rolling back. It’s shocking stuff.
Our followers would like to know:
What was the impetus behind focusing on children for this major campaign?
Presumably you are signalling that such events are not uncommon. But of course, that’s only true of 2021. Your advert normalises children having sudden, serious heart conditions, when it is ‘normal’ only in the context of the unprecedented covid vaccine rollout to young people. As you must know, while covid poses healthy children no statistically measurable risk, these vaccines are much more dangerous for them than for adults.
Your advert is called: ‘This is science’. But the only science on your coronavirus web pages is psychological manipulation.
It talks of covid leading to heart problems, without mentioning that the covid spike that causes these complications is also in the vaccines but in vastly greater quantities, which is why kids weren’t dropping on football pitches during the 2020 pandemic, but only after the vaccine roll out.
You are pushing everyone to get double jabbed. “Everyone”, it says. Is this your medical advice, Dr Griffiths? Does “everyone” include children?
Do you see the invidious position you have placed the British Heart Foundation in?
You are raising funds to cure people’s heart conditions, while pushing the sale of the very drugs that cause the heart conditions in the first place. You are turning the British Heart Foundation into a racket.
I can only think that you and Professor Sir Nilesh Samani have sleep-walked into a nightmare, and you are struggling to wake up. On behalf of every child and young person whose heart and life you will ruin, we are ringing the alarm bell.
Wake up, get up, and start doing your job.
Yours sincerely,
Ross Butler
Founder, The Children’s Union
The vaccinators are in our schools. The time to act is right now. You can do three things right now.
It’s not been covered in the media, but the law courts have put a huge dent in the government’s child vaccination plans and undermined its ethical basis.
At a high court hearing in early October, an injunction was sought to pause the mass rollout of Covid vaccinations for healthy children aged between 12 to 16 years.
High Court judge, Mr Justice Jay, accepted that there was sufficient evidence to demonstrate that the mass vaccination of healthy children may be unlawful.
Since the jabs don’t prevent infection or transmission, the government bench failed to offer any rational or plausible basis for the policy. However, given the political shock that stopping the roll out would cause, they have been granted 11 days to prepare better evidence. In the meantime, most Britain’s school children will be offered the chance to irreversibly join this dangerous and unnecessary experiment.
Safer to wait have written this letter that you can send to the head teachers in your area, explaining their moral and legal liability in the face of this development. Download it, sign and send:
https://t.co/17z9RUduWq?amp=1
2. NHS style consent form – leaflet drop
We have been sent this excellent consent form which you can print out and distribute in your local area.
Children are being vaccinated now, and they are under great peer and authoritative pressure. They need something in their hands to use as a last line of defence. This could be it.
3. Cover letter
If you wish, you could use this cover letter to provide some context and further information about the risks and supposed benefits of child vaccination.
The message
If you are going to be active, you may be put on the spot, and asked why you don’t think children should be vaccinated.
There are so many reasons not to vaccinate children it can be difficult to know where to begin in the heat of the moment.
Our analysis of people’s motivations suggests that emphasising people’s personal risk is not effective on its own. It must be couple with the fact that the jab will not actually do any good, since they were not designed to prevent transmission.
The pharmaceutical companies have tried to fudge this by advertising relative risk reductions of 99%. However, the standard measure of efficacy is absolute risk reduction, and these are so small as to be within the margin of statistical error.
In other words, there is no discernible benefit.
The cruellest thing a child could do to their parents is to risk their life, completely unnecessarily.
I would like to thank you all in advance. We can’t save everyone. So work on that basis that you can prevent one family from having their lives shattered.
Good luck.
Read our open letter to Professor Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, regarding the government’s request for him to consider vaccinating 12-15 year olds, despite the JCVI’s opposition.
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Professor Chris Whitty
Chief Medical Officer
HM Government
By email: c.whitty@nhs.net
Dear Chris,
Re: ‘Chief medical officers to consider vaccinating people [sic] aged 12 to 15 following JCVI advice’
After so many untested non-medical interventions on our children, the government finally wants an impact assessment.
Government ministers want you, Chris, to consider “the wider impacts” of not giving children the Covid treatment, specifically:
‘the impact on schools and young people’s education, which has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.’
You see the problem, I’m sure. The pandemic didn’t close schools. The government did. As such, they are asking you to respond, not to a genuine enquiry, but to a threat: if you don’t sanction this risky medical intervention, our non-medical intervention may hurt children even more.
The JCVI held the line last week. The government-convened panel of experts refused to sanction the covid treatment for children. Under great political pressure to give it the green light, they had to consider covid, long covid, short term health impacts like myocarditis, the incidence of death following vaccination, the long-term health impacts on children that have their whole lives ahead of them. And they said, no. Don’t do it.
So now, unable to justify this medical intervention on medical grounds, the government wants you to justify it on the grounds of reactive policy. But policy isn’t inevitable. They set it. They don’t really want an impact assessment, Chris. They want a parody of one, with your signature beneath it.
Let’s be clear on your task. The government has asked you to weigh-up two false and unnecessary alternatives; and to tell them which will be the least effective at hurting, maiming and killing children. They will then implement one of them.
You have another option, Chris. You can just say no. None of the above.
Children don’t have a choice here. And their parents won’t really have one. Only you do.
We have wanted an impact assessment on school closures since March 2020. But we are now in a position where, if such an assessment were conducted, it would be used as an excuse to vaccinate children against medical advice. The truth has been weaponised. That’s what happens you make concessions against logic in the name of political expediency. You undo 300 years of scientific progress.
Don’t be a part of it, Chris.
Say “none of the above”.
Yours sincerely,
Ross Butler
Founder
He wouldn’t have got away with it in 2020.
When Professor Wei Shen Lim, chairman of the JCVI’s Covid-19 sub-committee, announced last week that the Pfizer vaccine was to be ‘offered’ to all 16- and 17-year-olds, with 12-year-olds next, the UK gave a kind of collective shrug.
Such is our fatigue, government scientists could make lederhosen mandatory and people would just react based on the political camp they’ve adopted (‘follow the science’ or ‘follow the science-money’).
Well, it’s time to wake up and grow up, because things don’t always just work out, and they are talking about our children.
This vaccination programme may be a success, but it also has a life of its own, and it is being expanded at a furious rate without even the pretence of diligence, questioning or debate from the media or opposition parties. Scientific inquiry has been entirely censored, with the world’s formerly leading virologists and epidemiologists no-platformed. Since the word ‘science’ means precisely that process of open inquiry, then whatever the JCVI are doing, it is not what the lab-coat theatre suggests.
However, the very fact Professor Lim’s press conference lacked any precision, rigour or coherence was actually very revealing.
We are now passed the point where the UK’s political advisers in lab coats are even pretending this is about science. (At one point, Lim actually laughed as he concluded a rambling answer with, ‘I hope that’s clear,’ when it was clearly a deflection.)
We have analysed Professor Lim’s explanations in search of a grain of logic or evidence for rushing out this vaccine to children. You can make up your own mind.
In his first point, he chose to gloss over the crucial matter of the frequency and severity with which children get covid, by deferring to the regulator’s casual opening comments. Rather an important point, you’d think, when you are effectively mandating (through coercion) an entirely new gene therapy for children.
In fact, we know that there is zero statistical basis on which to say that children are at any risk at all from covid. Of the tiny yet tragic handful of children that have died with covid (as with all age groups, the data does not determine that they died from covid), all of them had serious existing conditions, such as leukaemia, and many were already in hospital with these, prior to infection. In the context of millions of children, the number is far, far below the level at which any determination of risk can be made. When it comes to children and covid, the word ‘risk’, in the sense of measurable statistics (which is how scientists use it) is simply inapplicable. Lim knows this of course, which is why he won’t speak about it.
Professor Lim next asserted that the frequency of severe reactions from the vaccine are “extremely rare or very rare” for bad outcomes. There is a big difference between ‘extremely’ and ‘very’ rare. Extremely rare means 1 in 100,000. Very rare means 1 in 10,000. And in fact, in the JCVI’s statement in July on vaccinating children, it said that the side effects were ‘rare but serious’. Rare means one in a thousand.
In other words, if we vaccinate all children in this country, there could be as many as 10,000 children suffering serious side effects from a vaccine that was never going to do them any harm. The Pfizer trials on children in the US show that ‘serious’ incidents include heart inflammation and heart failure, that in several cases resulted in a healthy child dying within days (yes many children were killed earlier this year from the Pfizer shot during the rushed US trials, you can read about them on the US government’s official site here – search for Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19, by age.)
As far as we can determine, the risk from covid from these healthy children was zero.
It’s an interesting thought experiment to see how you can distinguish this programme from that followed by serial-killer Dr Harold Shipman. I’m yet to find any meaningful difference.
Maybe there is a different reading of the risk, and of the numbers. But if that was the case, why didn’t Professor Lim give it? Why hasn’t the JCVI ever given it, despite the many public and private requests from doctors and scientists around the country?
You may also note what Lim did not say on this topic – that there is no long-term safety data on these vaccines. Most vaccine injuries in any age groups are longer-term effects, but for children this is crucial. And all the more so given that the short-term data has revealed that serious risks are present that were not predicted in the initial trials. They have their whole lives to live. Professor Lim entirely ignored this crucial point, as has the entire covid-vaccine industry.
Professor Lim stated that long covid is ‘only true for a very small proportion’ of children. If this sounds uncharacteristically measured, you should know that on the day of his press conference, Kings College released the most comprehensive study on child ‘long covid’ to-date, which showed that, like many respiratory diseases, covid can cause a lingering headache in children for a few weeks, but that in every case it cleared up within eight weeks. Since the study was going to be the second news item of the evening, Lim had nowhere further to go.
Yes, this was actually one of Lim’s killer points. If you can’t work out why it’s nonsense, focus on the words ‘of covid’.
Perhaps the most vacuous and dangerous of all Lim’s non-points is his assertion that covid has “disproportionately affected young people”, and that “the effect of the vaccine on reducing healthcare inequalities.”
What to make of this strange, unscientific series of statements?
Equality has never been a goal of medicine or healthcare. Equality is a goal within the Marxist political ideology, and whatever you think of that, it has never been applied to healthcare outcomes. The goal of healthcare is simply to make people healthy.
If the goal of healthcare is to make people equal, the quickest way to do that is to make everyone dead. If that sounds flippant, then you haven’t thought hard enough about how a society’s moral presuppositions force them down paths that nobody would have intended.
Here’s a strange thing. Lim and his JCVI colleagues aren’t going to give these teenagers both jabs within 3 weeks as some other countries have. They are going to wait to see what happens after the first dose.
You could look on this as relatively prudent. Or you could ask, if the vaccine is so safe, why wouldn’t you just give both?
The answer lies, of course, in the US Pfizer trials, where a significant proportion of children did not take the second dose, because of ‘adverse effects’, which for some meant they were already dead.
Did I not mention this yet? There is no parental consent for 16-year-olds. To be fair, Lim didn’t bother to mention this either. He waited until the first, blatantly planted, question from the BBC, delivered and answered, as an after-thought. Nothing to see here.
Perhaps most amazingly (although there’s plenty of competition) this press conference amounted to a colossal U-turn that was barely acknowledged by the attending press. Just two weeks earlier, the JCVI stated that vaccine risks outweighed the benefits for under-18s.
What shocking new data had suddenly emerged?
Not only was this not forthcoming (and still isn’t) but Lim said they didn’t even have it.
You see, “the evidence isn’t necessarily in the hands of the JCVI. We have spoken to academic partners in other countries,” and the data hasn’t been published. Lim shrugs at this, like, what can you do?
And the journalists are like, nothing to see here.
And that is so true.
What to conclude?
It’s one thing to demonstrate that someone is full of gas. But does that necessarily mean that Lim and the JCVI are acting malevolently?
I mean, if the broad implications of the above analysis are even half-right, the JCVI would need to be evil or out-of-their minds. And that seems unlikely.
So, despite all of the nonsense they are talking, maybe they just know something we don’t, and for reasons that are unfathomable but that could exist, they just can’t tell us.
Well, actually, I think that is not so far from the truth. And not in a good way.
Exhibit one
Lim is being paid by Pfizer. I know, this seems really far-fetched. But just take a look here.
It’s band 3, so Pfizer pays him ‘over £25,000’. (There is no band 4.)
And this is just what has been dug up, it wasn’t offered up.
Conflicts of interest can be managed, but the first step in managing them is full disclosure and transparency. This has not happened. In a sane world, this would be a huge scandal. But our press was bought off many months ago.
When you have a real personal interest in something, it can be very difficult to think in an unbiased way. This doesn’t make Lim evil. It just makes him unethical, compromised and dangerous (along with everyone else that have put themselves in a similar position.)
Exhibit two
In the weeks prior to this U-turn, one JCVI member was very much against vaccinating children. Robert Dingwall became known on social media as the only outspoken critic of any suggestions in this direction, and behind the scenes he is understood to have lobbied his colleagues. He told the Spectator that his scepticsm, “was not by any means an outlier in discussions within the committee.”
A week or so before the u-turn, Dingwall and a number of other members of the covid sub-committee were fired from the JCVI.
Let’s be clear. The medical-political establishment in this country is entirely intertwined. The NHS is the only game in town, the government is the only game in town, which means anyone questioning the dogma loses their positions, perks, income and means to practice. If you doubt that, just ask the world’s leading epidemiologist how things are going.
There is a very simple reason why these doctors are not speaking out. Self-preservation.
Ultimately, if there was a good reason to extend this risky and rushed programme to children, they would have given it. They would be singing it from the roof tops. But they aren’t. Because it does not exist.
I wanted to give Professor Lim the final word, because that’s only fair. So I dug out his least objectionable refrain. But you know, the more I read it, the less comforted I feel.
“We place a high value on the safety of children and young people, and that reflects the public viewpoint as well.”
