A LETTER interesting to the subsequent Prime Minister to pause the Covid vaccine rollout for kids has been compiled by the Youngsters’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Council (CCVAC).
The letter has been opened up on-line for well being professionals and scientists so as to add their signatures by the point Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak enters Downing Avenue on September 5 and could be accessed right here
The CCVAC, whose main members embody retired advisor paediatrician Dr Ros Jones, desires a radical and impartial assessment into whether or not wholesome youngsters ought to be given the jab, within the face of great considerations about its security and efficacy.
Right here is the textual content of the letter and the signatories thus far …
July/August 2022
The Prime Minister
10, Downing Avenue,
London SW1A 2AA
Expensive Prime Minister,
Re: Covid-19 Vaccines for Children
Firstly, congratulations on turning into our new Prime Minister.
You’ll little doubt have many urgent issues as you are taking up workplace. However what could be extra vital than the well being and well-being of the nation’s youngsters?
We, the undersigned well being professionals and scientists,have enormous considerations in regards to the security and necessity of Covid-19 vaccines for kids, for causes detailed within the linked letters under. We name upon you, urgently, to pause the Covid-19 vaccine rollout for wholesome youngsters, whereas a radical and impartial security assessment is undertaken.
Between us, we’ve written quite a few letters to the regulators, copied to your predecessor, relating to use of those mRNA merchandise in youngsters. We strongly urge you to rethink their deployment for the next causes. Covid-19 was all the time a a lot milder sickness in youngsters, with round a 1 in 2,000,000 threat of demise for in any other case wholesome youngsters. Successive variants have change into much less virulent, lowering the chance nonetheless additional. As well as, there isconsiderable proof of quickly waning vaccine efficacy, and growing considerations over rapid vaccines accidents (resembling myocarditis with its identified potential for extreme and presumably everlasting cardiac injury). There’s nonetheless a complete lack of long-term security information and the worrying rise in extra non-Covid deaths in younger males aged 15-19 years has but to be defined. Lastly, the overwhelming majority of youngsters have already been uncovered to SARS-CoV-2 repeatedly and haveachieved demonstrably efficient immunity, which is way superior to vaccine-induced immunity.
In brief, the stability of profit and threat, used to help the rollout of mRNA vaccines to the aged and susceptible in 2021, is completely inappropriate and inapplicable for kids in 2022.
Beneath are hyperlinks to all of the absolutely referenced letters we’ve written to the MHRA, the JCVI and the CMOs over the previous yr. The detailed questions posed have by no means been correctly addressed by these regulators. Teams of well being professionals from around the globe have comparable considerations and certainly some international locations have already paused youngsters’s Covid-19 vaccines, significantly for many who have already had SARS-CoV-2 an infection. The Danish Minister of Well being not too long ago declared that vaccinating youngsters had been a mistake.
• 30th June 2022 – https://childrensunion.org/6-month-to-4-years-covid-vaccines/
• 14th February 2022 – https://childrensunion.org/ccvac-pause-covid-roll-out/
• 19th January 2022 – https://www.hartgroup.org/open-letter-to-the-mhra-regarding-child-death-data/
• 7th January 2022 – https://www.hartgroup.org/gmc-reply-07-12-2021/ (reply to letter of 10/12/21)
• 10th December 2021- https://www.hartgroup.org/open-letter-to-the-gmc/ re consent
• 14th November 2021- https://www.hartgroup.org/open-letter-to-mhra-14-11-2021/ re security
• 23rd August 2021- https://www.hartgroup.org/open-letter-to-mhra-23-08-2021/ re security
• 6th June 2021 – https://www.hartgroup.org/open-letter-to-mhra-06-06-2021/ re security
• 17th Might 2021- https://www.hartgroup.org/open-letter-to-mhra-17-05-2021/ re security
• 17th Might 2021 – https://www.hartgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Covid-19_Vaccine_in_Children_FULL_document.pdf appendix to above letter
Chances are you’ll bear in mind that members of the Pandemic Response All Get together Parliamentary Group additionally wrote to the JCVI in January 2022, relating to the documented increasein all-cause mortality in 15-19-year-old males, once more with no passable reply given to deal with their considerations.
The well being of the nation’s youngsters is of paramount concern and should absolutely be a excessive precedence for an incoming Prime Minister. You’ll little doubt concentrate on Sir Christopher Chope’s tireless work on a Covid-19 Vaccine Harm Invoice, pushing for correct and truthful compensation for hundreds of vaccine-damaged adults. You can’t permit the chance of Covid-19 vaccine accidents in youngsters, who stand to realize zero profit from vaccination because of the overwhelming majority having already been contaminated, and who’ve subsequently already acquired pure immunity.
We entreat you to use the precautionary precept to using these merchandise, which nonetheless haven’t any long-term security information and stay in Section 3 medical trials. The proof of injury that this rushed coverage is inflicting for kids mounts each day.
Along with considerations in regards to the bodily threat to youngsters posed by these mRNA merchandise, we might additionally remind you of the acknowledged and vital psychological and academic injury to youngsters which resulted from the college closures and masking necessities applied by your predecessor. We’d ask that, as a matter of urgency, you clarify that faculty closures and masking of schoolchildren is not going to be repeated beneath your watch.
Firstly of your time period as Prime Minister, you now have a vital alternative to forestall avoidable injury to youngsters, and the inevitable outcry and backlash that may comply with, by pausing the rollout with rapid impact, in addition to bringing to an finish all dangerous covid restrictions in faculties. It is a risk-free motion. Till then, the political and well being dangers of those damaging insurance policies will solely escalate.
We eagerly await your response.
Wishing you effectively within the difficult job you’ve got forward.
Yours sincerely
Dr Rosamond Jones, MBBS, MD, FRCPCH, retired advisor paediatrician, convenor of CCVAC
Professor Anthony J Brookes, Professor of Genomics and Well being Knowledge Science, College of
Leicester
Professor Angus Dalgleish, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FRCPath, FMed Sci, Principal, Institute for
Most cancers Vaccines & Immunotherapy (ICVI)
Professor Richard Ennos, MA, PhD. Honorary Professorial Fellow, College of Edinburgh
Professor John Fairclough, FRCS FFSEM, retired Honorary Advisor Surgeon
Professor Norman Fenton, CEng, CMath, PhD, FBCS, MIET, Professor of Danger Info
Administration, Queen Mary College of London
Prof Anthony Fryer, PhD, FRCPath, Professor of Medical Biochemistry, Keele College
Professor David Livermore, BSc, PhD, retired Professor of Medical Microbiology
Professor Dennis McGonagle, PhD, FRCPI, Professor of Investigative Rheumatology, College of
Leeds
Professor Keith Willison, PhD, Professor of Chemical Biology, Imperial School, London
Lord Moonie, MBChB, MRCPsych, MFCM, MSc, retired member of the Home of Lords, former
parliamentary under-secretary of state 2001-2003, former advisor in Public Well being Medication
Julie Annakin, RN, Immunisation Specialist Nurse
Dr Abby Astle, MBBChir, BA(Cantab),DCH, DGM, MRCGP, GP Principal, GP Coach,
GP Examiner
Dr Elyse Baril-Guerard, MD, CCFP, MRCGP, Normal Practitioner
Dr Michael Bazlinton, MBCHB, MRCGP, DCH, Normal Practitioner
Dr David Bell, MBBS, PhD, FRCP(UK), Public Well being Doctor
Dr Mark A Bell, MBChB, MRCP(UK), FRCEM, Advisor in Emergency Medication
Dr Michael D Bell, MBChB, MRCGP, retired Normal Practitioner
Dr Alan Black, MBBS, MSc, DipPharmMed, retired Pharmaceutical Doctor
Dr David Bramble, MBChB, MRCPsych, MD, Advisor Psychiatrist
Dr Emma Brierly, MBBS, MRCGP, Normal Practitioner
Kim Bull, Basis Diploma in Paramedic Science, Paramedic
Dr Elizabeth Burton, MB ChB, retired Normal Practitioner
Dr David Cartland, MBChB, BMedSci, Normal practitioner
Dr Peter Chan, BM, MRCS, MRCGP, NLP, Normal Practitioner, Practical medication
Dr Marco Chiesa, MD, FRCPsych, Advisor Psychiatrist, Visiting Professor
Michael Cockayne, MSc, PGDip, SCPHNOH, BA, RN, Occupational Well being Practitioner
Dr Julie Coffey, MBChB, Normal Practitioner
John Collis, RN, Specialist Nurse Practitioner, retired
Mr Ian F Comaish, MA, BM BCh, FRCOphth, FRANZCO, Advisor Ophthalmologist
James Prepare dinner, NHS Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Nursing (Hons), Grasp of Public Well being
Dr Clare Craig, BMBCh, FRCPath, Pathologist
Dr David Critchley, BSc, PhD in Pharmacology, 32 years’ expertise in Pharmaceutical R&D
Dr Sue de Lacy, MBBS MRCGP AFMCP UK, Integrative Medication Physician
Dr Jayne LM Donegan, MBBS, DRCOG, DCH, DFFP, MRCGP, Homeopathic Practitioner
Dr Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB, personal doctor
Dr Jonathan Engler, MBChB, LlB (hons), DipPharmMed
Dr Elizabeth Evans, MA(Cantab), MBBS, DRCOG, retired Physician, Director UKMFA
Dr Christopher Exley, PhD FRSB, retired professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry
Dr John Flack, BPharm, PhD, retired Director of Security Analysis at Beecham Prescribed drugs,
retired Senior Vice-president for Drug Discovery SmithKline Beecham
Dr Charles Forsyth, MBBS, BSEM, Impartial Medical Practitioner
Dr Simon Fox, BSc, BMBCh, FRCP, Advisor in Infectious Illnesses and Inside Medication
Dr Jenny Goodman, MA, MBChB, Ecological Medication
Dr Ali Haggett, Psychological well being neighborhood work, third sector, former lecturer within the historical past of
medication
David Halpin, MB BS FRCS, Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon (retired)
Dr Catherine Hatton, MBChB, Normal Practitioner
Mr Anthony Hinton, MBChB, FRCS, Advisor ENT surgeon, London
Dr Renée Hoenderkampf, Normal Practitioner
Dr Andrew Isaac, MB BCh, Doctor, retired
Dr Steve James, MBBS, MA, FRCA, FFICM, Important Care Advisor
Dr Keith Johnson, BA, DPhil (Oxon), IP Advisor for Diagnostic Testing
Dr Pauline Jones, MB BS, Retired Normal Practitioner
Dr Gemma Kemp, MBBS, FRCPath, Advisor Forensic Pathologist
Dr Tanya Klymenko, PhD, FHEA, FIBMS, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
Dr Charles Lane, MA, DPhil, Molecular Biologist
Dr Branko Latinkic, BSc, PhD, Molecular Biologist
Dr Theresa Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD, Director, Proof-Based mostly Medication Consultancy Ltd, Bathtub
Dr Jason Lester, MRCP, FRCR, Advisor Medical Oncologist
Dr Felicity Lillingstone, IMD DHS PhD ANP, Physician, Pressing Care, Analysis Fellow
Mr Malcolm Loudon, MBChB, MD, FRCSEd, FRCS(Gen Surg), MIHM,VR, Advisor Surgeon
Katherine MacGilchrist, BSc (Hons), MSc, CEO/Systematic Overview Director, Epidemica Ltd.
Dr Geoffrey Maidment, MBBS, MD, FRCP, Advisor doctor, retired
Ahmad Okay Malik, FRCS(Tr & Orth) Dip Med Sport, Advisor Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr Ayiesha Malik, MBChB, Normal Practitioner
Dr Kulvinder Singh Manik, MBBS, Normal Practitioner
Dr Fiona Martindale, MBChB, MRCGP, Normal Practitioner
Dr Julie Maxwell, MBBCh, MRCPCH, Affiliate Specialist Group Paediatrician
Dr S McBride, BSc(Hons) Medical Microbiology &Immunobiology, MBBCh BAO, MSc in Medical
Gerontology, MRCP(UK), FRCEM, FRCP(Edinburgh). NHS Emergency Medication & geriatrics
Mr Ian McDermott, MBBS, MS, FRCS(Tr&Orth), FFSEM(UK), Advisor Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr Scott McLachlan, FAIDH, MCSE, MCT, DSysEng, LLM, MPhil, Postdoctoral researcher
Dr Franziska Meuschel, MD, ND, PhD, LFHom, BSEM, Dietary, Environmental and Built-in
Medication
Dr Scott Mitchell, MBChB, MRCS, Emergency Medication Doctor
Dr Alan Mordue, MBChB, FFPH. Retired Advisor in Public Well being Medication & Epidemiology
Dr David Morris, MBChB, MRCP(UK), Normal Practitioner
Dr Claire Mottram, BSc Hons, MBChB, Physician in Normal Follow
Margaret Moss, MA(Cantab), CBiol, MRSB, Director, The Diet and Allergy Clinic, Cheshire
Dr Alice Murkies, MD, FRACGP, MBBS, Normal Practitioner
Dr Greta Mushet, MBChB, MRCPsych, retired Advisor Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy
Dr Sarah Myhill, MBBS, retired GP and Naturopathic Doctor
Mr Colin Natali, BSc(hons) MBBS, FRCS (Orth), Advisor Spinal Surgeon
Dr Chris Newton, PhD, Biochemist working in immuno-metabolism
Dr Rachel Nicholl, PhD, Medical researcher
Dr Richard J. O’Shea. MBBCh, BA(Hons) MRCGP, Normal Practitioner
Sue Parker Corridor, licensed transactional analyst (CTA, psychotherapy); MSc (Counselling &
Supervision) MBACP (senior accredited practitioner); EMDR practitioner, Psychotherapist
Dr Dean Patterson, MBChB, FRCP, Advisor Heart specialist
Dr Christina Friends, MBBS, DRCOG, DFSRH, FFSRH, Menopause specialist
Rev Dr William J U Philip MB ChB, MRCP, BD, Senior Minister The Tron Church, Glasgow,
previously doctor specialising in cardiology
Anna Phillips, RSCN, BSc Hons, Medical Lead Coach Medical Programs (Paediatric Intensive Care)
Dr Angharad Powell, MBChB, BSc (hons), DFRSH, DCP (Eire), DRCOG, DipOccMed,
MRCGP, Normal Practitioner
Dr Gerry Quinn, PhD. Postdoctoral researcher in microbiology and immunology
Dr Johanna Reilly, MBBS, Normal Practitioner
Jessica Righart, MSc, MIBMS, Senior Important Care Scientist
Mr Angus Robertson, BSc, MB ChB, FRCSEd (Tr & Orth), Advisor Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr Jessica Robinson, BSc(Hons), MBBS, MRCPsych, MFHom, Psychiatrist and Integrative
Medication Physician
Dr Jon Rogers, MB ChB (Bristol), Retired Normal Practitioner
Mr James Royle, MBChB, FRCS, MMedEd, Colorectal surgeon
Dr Salmaan Saleem, MBBS, BMedSci, MRCGP, Normal Practitioner
Dr Roland Salmon, MB BS, MRCGP, FFPH, Former Director, Communicable Illness
Surveillance Centre Wales
Sorrel Scott, Grad Dip Phys, Specialist Physiotherapist in Neurology, 30 years in NHS
Dr Rohaan Seth, BSc (hons), MBChB (hons), MRCGP, Retired Normal Practitioner
Dr Haleema Sheikh, MRCGP, Normal Practitioner
Dr Gary Sidley, retired NHS Advisor Medical Psychologist
Dr Annabel Sensible, MBBS, BSc, retired Normal Practitioner
Natalie Stephenson, BSc (Hons) Paediatric Audiologist
Dr Zenobia Storah, MA (Oxon), Dip Psych, DClinPsy, Senior Medical Psychologist (Little one and
Adolescent)
Dr Noel Thomas, MA, MBChB, DCH, DObsRCOG, DTM&H, MFHom, retired physician
Dr Stephen Ting, MB CHB, MRCP, PhD, Advisor Doctor
Dr Julian Tompkinson, MBChB MRCGP, Normal Practitioner GP coach PCME
Suzanne Tomkinson BSc MSc CSci FIBMS Senior Biomedical Scientist (Medical Biochemistry)
Dr Livia Tossici-Bolt, PhD, Medical Scientist
Dr Helen Westwood MBChB MRCGP DCH DRCOG, Normal Practitioner
Dr Carmen Wheatley, DPhil, Orthomolecular Oncology
Mr Lasantha Wijesinghe, FRCS, Advisor Vascular Surgeon
Dr Damian Wilde, PhD, (Chartered) Specialist Medical Psychologist
Dr Ruth Wilde, MB BCh, MRCEM, AFMCP, Integrative & Practical Medication Physician
Dr Lucie Wilk, MD, Advisor Rheumatologist
Dr Stefanie Williams, MD, Dermatologist
Dr Holly Younger, BSc, MBChB, MRCP, Advisor Palliative Care Medication
