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 […]
Children
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You may think that Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children have been withdrawn but don’t worry your child can get their next fix by enrolling in the NextCOVE trial, launched last month in Bradford, with several other centres across the UK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The picture above may shortly be out of date when the latest monoclonal antibody against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is added to the CDC list.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
How do doctors stand legally if a patient is vaccine injured?
An interesting correspondance with the Medical Defence Union To: The Medical Defence Union 24th August 2022 Dear MDU advisor, I and a large group of doctors have ongoing concerns about the risk:benefit balance of covid-19 vaccines particularly in children. We have been in correspondence for well over a year with the MHRA, the JCVI and the […]
Kent & Medway NHS is still pushing covid vaccines on teenagers
A concerned parent wrote to HART to share a letter she had received in her son’s bag. With her permission, we would like to publish both the letter, and her very well thought out response.
An independent review of vaccine safety is urgently required: an open letter to MHRA
For the last year, a group of senior health professionals and academics have been writing to regulators and prime ministers asking for a recalculation of their benefit:risk assessment for covid vaccines for children. These were described as marginal when calculated during the Wuhan and Delta waves and as far as we are aware had not been recalculated for omicron or indeed taking account of the wide-spread naturally acquired immunity.
What are these vaccines doing to the nation’s children and where is the benefit?
This week over one hundred health professionals wrote to the MHRA regarding Moderna’s application for a conditional marketing authorisation for Spikevax for babies from 6 months upwards. This baby dose has already been approved in the US and added to their routine immunisation schedule, thus removing any distinction between a novel technology gene-based vaccine rushed to market under the pretext of an ‘EMERGENCY’ and standard vaccines.
Open letter to the JCVI 6th December 2022
The MHRA have just authorised Pfizer Cominarty for infants and toddlers. Will the JCVI just fall in line or will they finally show some ethical resolve?
Open Letter to MHRA on vaccines for 0-5s
Open letter to the MHRA re Moderna application for 0-5s. Will Dame June follow this baby’s view on the precautionary principle? One can live in hopes!
Latest Open Letter to our Latest Prime Minister
Yet another open letter to the Prime Minister on the lack of safety of Covid-19 vaccines for children
How do we support young people post covid?
The Covid era has shown many of us just how broken and dysfunctional the systems around us are when it comes to protecting young people’s emotional health. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that it’s the sick society that we are passing on to future generations that should be the priority target of our interventions for change, rather than the focus being on our young people (and ourselves). No one who works with children would support them to adapt to an abusive home environment so how can we justify supporting them to adapt to a social environment that is harmful for them? Surely it’s time to fully comprehend that the trauma-informed sessions in schools, the damaging psychiatric drugs and endless rounds of short-term counselling are not the answer.
Open Letter to Prime Minister Liz Truss
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.
