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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Vaccination update
17 June 2021 – HART member, Dr Ros Jones joined with 60 other doctors and academics to voice grave concerns about the safety and necessity of COVID-19 vaccines for children.
BBC mislead with child vaccination video
16 June 2021 – In a week of very worrying developments, HART has been particularly appalled by a recent piece on BBC Newsround promoting the Pfizer vaccine for children. The senior doctors on HART are in agreement that this video material is heavily biased, makes several factually incorrect statements and could be seen as coercive propaganda.
COVID-19 child vaccination: irresponsible, unethical and unnecessary
9 June 2021 – It is shocking that as of Friday 6 June the MHRA approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine in children aged 12 to 15 years old.
Compulsory vaccination for NHS staff back on the agenda?
3 June 2021 – A number of professional bodies — such as the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Nursing — have already rejected the notion that COVID-19 vaccination for staff should be compulsory. Nevertheless, the government signalled its intention to consider mandating vaccination for NHS staff.
COVID-19 child vaccination: safety and ethical concerns
20 May 2021 – Recently leaked Government documents suggested that a COVID-19 vaccine rollout in children over 12 years old is already planned for September 2021, and the possibility of children as young as 5 years old being vaccinated in the summer in a worst-case scenario.
