16 September – 12-15 year olds now offered COVID-19 vaccines ‘to avoid educational disruptions’ and ‘for their mental health’
Vaccine
COVID-19 vaccines: unnecessary for healthy 12 to 15-year-olds
9 September 2021 – Grave concerns about the balance of risk. Vaccines are not required to prevent educational disruption.
Myocarditis in children and young adults
20 August 2021 – The roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents has begun, despite evidence that myocarditis is a side effect of the vaccine.
COVID-19 vaccine to be offered to 16 and 17 year-olds
6 August 2021 – In attempting to defend the sudden change in position, JCVI Chair Professor Wei Shen Lim was entirely unconvincing in his reasoning.
What’s in store next?
6 August 2021 – The government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has published an extraordinary paper setting out possible scenarios for the future.
Busting the myth that vaccination prevents transmission
29 July 2021 – Any discrimination or coercion of any form aimed at those who choose not to be vaccinated is unsustainable.
Children’s vaccine advice changing by the day
22 July 2021 – Adult protection is ethically achieved through adults protecting themselves, not by passing on the risks of vaccination to children.
Unvaccinated as ‘variant factories’?
15 July 2021 – Several media outlets in the UK have simultaneously released a story alleging that unvaccinated people are risking their own health and will become potential factories of coronavirus variants.,
New data confirms children at extremely low risk
15 July 2021 – From the beginning of the pandemic, it has been apparent that COVID-19 is largely a disease of the elderly or those with other co-morbidities and mercifully has had minimal impact on children.
Freedom Day briefing underwhelms
15 July 2021 – The Prime Minister held a briefing on Monday to confirm that ‘Freedom Day’ is going ahead, yet managed to strike a sombre tone that bordered on the downright miserable.
Should cats and dogs be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2?
15 July 2021 – While epidemiological surveillance of domestic animals for SARS-CoV-2 is warranted, the available evidence currently indicates no cause for concern.
COVID-19 vaccination: Yellow Card reporting of adverse events
12 July 2021 – An open letter from UK medics to the Chief Medical Officers of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and the Chair of the MHRA.
Children receive vaccine despite the rules
8 July 2021 – It is shocking to read that Rochdale Borough Council and some GPs have defied the current rules and are already vaccinating healthy 16 and 17-year-olds.
Professor Devi Sridhar misleads again
6 July – On Monday 28 June, Good Morning Britain (GMB) interviewed Professor Devi Sridhar, who in HART’s view, was once again allowed to give out highly misleading information regarding the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in children.
Junk science serves neither side of the debate
2 July 2021 – A new paper attempting to determine the ratio of lives saved through COVID-19 vaccination to lives lost has been published in a journal called “Vaccines”.
Are vaccinations less effective in the under 50s?
2 July 2021 – Latest data from Public Health England shows that the household transmission rate is 9% for the alpha variant and 12% for the delta variant meaning that 88-91% of household contacts do not catch it.
Vaccine update
24 June 2021 – We have previously noted concerns about myocarditis and pericarditis caused by the mRNA vaccines (of which Pfizer is the main one in use in the UK), especially in young people.
Bloomsbury announce all staff must be vaccinated
24 June 2021 – Bloomsbury Publishing have told their UK staff that COVID-19 vaccination will be compulsory before returning to the office on 19 July.
