On 14th September BBC News reported London measles warning ‘Outbreak could hit tens of thousands’ Reading on, you discover this is based on our favourite dislocation from the real world: computer modelling.
Children
New Zealand study wins the prize for bizarre conclusions
Last month HART editors wrote a slightly humorous article entitled How to get published in the Covid era – HART (hartgroup.org). Humorous, that is, if it wasn’t so serious.
Drag Queen Story Hour
The following article was written by Val Fraser, Education Adviser. As Steve Jobs once said “the most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” Drag shows used to fall squarely under the category of sexual fetish. Now it seems to be en vogue to expose children in primary school to such concepts.
Back to School!
As children across England and Wales return to school, the usual fear messaging begins but this time with variations on a theme:
Deaths from Covid double as new Pirola and Eris variants spread;
We should be going back into masks, which definitely work;
Your child should take a covid-booster to protect an immunocompromised household member
Professor Lim, how can boosters protect others?
Professor Lim, how can boosters protect others?
Where is the logic or indeed the ethics of the autumn booster programme?
Corporate Research NHS-style
Digging into the trial centres and the sponsorship has highlighted the current state of medical research in the UK and the influence of the drug company sponsor. Several of the centres involved are commercial companies with clearly a need to undertake drug company sponsored research in order to make a profit for their organisation.
The Assaults on our young have reached peak insanity
The myriad of harmful phenomena includes graphic and age-inappropriate sex education, gender identity confusion, under-researched and addictive vapes, doomsday climate change propaganda, phones that enable pornographic addiction and self-esteem wrecking social media. All are escalating at a time when the young are extremely vulnerable and in need of adults’ protection, rather than neglect, exploitation or other forms of abuse.
Yet more fear mongering over covid in children
The usual covid high priests who have been wheeled out repeatedly in front of the television cameras to fear-monger about covid without any debate, are at it again. Several members of Independent SAGE and others have written a paper assessing the impact of covid on children over the course of the last three years. It is not the paper they wanted to write.
AstraZeneca children’s trial breaches Helsinki
As a retired paediatrician, I was shocked to see the Oxford Vaccine Group advertising on Twitter for children aged 6-17 to join the latest Sars-CoV-2 vaccine trial[1]. In the two days it has taken me coposing this letter, I now see from tonight’s BBC news that the trial has already begun.
Com-COV-3 booster study for 12-15-year-olds
a letter to the senior investigator and the chair of the Research Ethics Committee 9th August 2022 Professor Matthew Snape, Chief Investigator Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LE Mr David Carpenter, Chairman, South Central – Berkshire Research Ethic Committee Bristol REC Centre, Temple […]
NextCOVE
You may think that Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children have been withdrawn but don’t worry your child can get their next fix by enrolling in the NextCOVE trial, launched last month in Bradford, with several other centres across the UK due to start recruiting soon. The trial was announced by Yahoo ironically on the same day, 30th June, that all routine covid vaccines ended.
NextCOVE trial contravenes the Declaration of Helsinki
We wish to draw your attention to a Covid-19 vaccine trial in your hospital which has just started recruiting children aged 12-17 and which is in contravention of the Declaration of Helsinki[1] and other UK and international laws.
Vaccines galore
The picture above may shortly be out of date when the latest monoclonal antibody against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is added to the CDC list. The US approach stands in stark contrast to Europe’s.So another dilemma for parents of young children who have already laboured long and hard over whether to give their children a covid-19 vaccine – will their children need this latest new immunis
Reply from the MHRA regarding children’s covid vaccinations
The data on the safety of the vaccine in the 12 to 15 year olds have also been reviewed carefully. No new adverse events were identified and the safety data in adolescents was comparable with that seen in young adults.
Roll up, Roll up: mRNA vaccines for ‘high risk’ 0-4s available
Followers of the HART bulletins will know that an open letter was sent to the FDA right back in April 2022 before their meeting to consider authorising mRNA covid-19 vaccines to young children aged 6 months to 4 years. The authors highlighted the likely poor benefit:risk ratio, given the extremely low risk posed by SARS-CoV-2 infections in this age group and the many known and unknown harms.
I can’t forgive and they make it impossible to forget
In the next instalment of I’m not a totalitarian, get me out of here, one concerned citizen is now peddling a petition calling for surveillance cameras to be installed in the local playground. Apparently this is due to local youths convening there sometimes.
New JCVI advice for high risk 0-4s
HART published an open letter sent to the JCVI on 6th December, the date when the MHRA first gave a conditional marketing authorisation for 0-4s. As has been the norm, no reply was received. The concerns remain the same.
Inquiry into increased neonatal deaths in Scotland gets underway
An open letter to the Chair of the Scottish Neonatal Deaths Inquiry Group on the importance of looking at all possible causes
