Not content with authorising the Pfizer vaccine for 12-15s last summer and more recently and even more controversially for 5-11s, they have now authorised the Moderna Spikevax for this young age group.
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Why are healthcare venues persisting with masks?
The evidence that masking healthy people in community settings reduces viral transmission is – at best – weak and contradictory. In light of this lack of empirical support for the effectiveness of face coverings, together with the multiple harms associated with them, HART welcomes the lifting of all mask mandates in the UK.

Worrying outbreaks of serious hepatitis cases in children
No apparent link to vaccination, but serious policy questions are still raised The UKHSA has reported a number of cases of severe hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) in young children. Some of these have been serious enough to require liver transplantation. The WHO issued a bulletin confirming that authorities in both Spain and Ireland were […]

Open Letter: To all members of the FDA Vaccines Committee
Pfizer application for Emergency Use Authorisation of the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines in children aged 6 months to 4 years.

Corporate-backed censorship does not keep us ‘safe’
One of the most galling tropes of the UK government Covid response, has been that officialdom has been “following the science” to keep everyone ‘safe’.

Rewriting history on school closures
If we are to avoid the mistakes of the last two years the first step must be admitting that mistakes were made. This has begun but some people are finding it harder than others.

Terms of Reference for the Covid-19 Public Inquiry
The deadline to respond to the proposed terms of reference for the English Public Inquiry into covid ends on 7th April. There are number of major omissions from the current proposed terms of reference

Doctors say ‘No’, politicians say ‘Go’. Stop the 5-to-11s ‘offer’
This is the heading of a crowdjustice appeal looking to challenge the government’s decision on vaccinating healthy primary school children. But given this is only an ‘offer’, is a legal challenge required?

Moving towards recovery
Surveying the costs of mass testing children and other NPIs in educational settings This piece was originally written for the British Medical Journal. They rejected the piece. The Daily Sceptic have also published it, but we feel this of the utmost importance and needs to be given the attention it deserves. Authors: Dr Zenobia Storah, […]

We need to talk about behavioural science…
The Government’s use of behavioural-science – particularly ‘nudges’ that use fear inflation, shaming and peer pressure to increase people’s compliance with the state’s agenda – has evoked major concerns in relation to both the ethics and the collateral damage.

First tranche of missing vaccine deaths found
Thousands of deaths in the vaccinated missing from ONS data Over 2,000 deaths in the vaccinated had been miscategorised as unvaccinated in the ONS deaths by vaccination status reports. These were people who had had a vaccine recorded electronically but never made it into the UKHSA dataset on who had been vaccinated (NIMS). There remains […]

What is a covid death?
After two years one might hope that there was a clear definition of what counted as a covid death. Collateral Global published a report this week exposing how far we are from an agreed definition with numerous different ways to define a covid death.

Lest We Forget
Not being a daily publication, we did not have the ‘pleasure’ of writing on the two year anniversary of that now most inauspicious of dates, 23 March 2020. If only the Prime Minister had stood up that Monday evening, ripped up his pre-prepared speech and stood firm – what an alternative reality that might have been!

Why the ongoing push for more vaccinations?
Since the arrival of the omicron variant, infection rates or positive cases have risen rapidly. Hospitalisations have also risen but it has been hard to disentangle admissions ‘with’ and admissions ‘for’ covid.

Hospital restrictions remain absurd and cruel
Following our recent article highlighting isolation and neglect in care homes, we are appalled to report that the situation is only slowly improving. What is more, many NHS sites are still imposing draconian and vindictive policies. Children are being separated from parents and dying relatives are being abandoned to a lonely end.

Reports of child deaths in the VAERS (US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System)
There have been 28 reports of deaths of children in the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System within 6 weeks of a Covid vaccine. As is stated in each VAERS report, the submission of a report ‘does not mean that the vaccine caused or contributed to the adverse event’.

Will the government’s ‘Public Inquiry’ be a whitewash?
From the start of the pandemic, a number of eminent voices were speaking out against lockdowns, as a blunderbuss approach with no prior mention in pandemic preparedness plans, and one for which no impact assessment was ever produced.

Are the Court of Protection vaccine rulings for autistic and mentally handicapped adults unlawful?
A detailed look at the legalities Guest author, Philip Ridley has thoroughly researched the legalities surrounding the Court of Protection vaccine rulings for autistic and mentally handicapped adults and whether they are in fact lawful. We hope his deep dive into this topic may be of use for those faced with similar issues. It was […]