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23 Sept: UK Daily Mail: ‘Covid is going to just become a cold’: Vaccine pioneer says virus will get weaker all the time as Whitty says every child is going to get it, unless they are jabbed
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert said Covid unlikely to mutate into deadlier variant
Said viruses tend to ‘become less virulent as they circulate’ through population
Professor Whitty says all schoolchildren will come into contact with Covid
England’s chief medical officer warned all who remain unjabbed will be infected
By ELEANOR HAYWARD FOR THE DAILY MAIL and JOE DAVIES FOR MAILONLINE
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert said ‘there aren’t very many places for the virus to go to have something that will evade immunity but still be a really infectious virus’.

She said viruses tend to ‘become less virulent as they circulate’ through the population, adding: ‘There is no reason to think we will have a more virulent version of Sars-CoV-2’.

Dame Sarah said the virus which causes Covid-19 will eventually become like the coronaviruses which circulate widely and cause the common cold. ..

Speaking at a Royal Society of Medicine seminar, Dame Sarah said: ‘We already live with four different human coronaviruses that we don’t really ever think about very much and eventually Sars-CoV-2 will become one of those...

It comes after Tory MPs yesterday slammed the Government for ‘undermining’ the Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) — the independent body advising the Government on vaccine policy — by pushing through jabs for children.

They argued bringing in the measure now was ‘perverse’ because Britain is ‘through the worst of the pandemic’...

The JCVI decided not to recommend mass vaccination of 12 to 15-year-olds on health grounds alone because youngsters face such a vanishingly small risk of becoming seriously ill.

There were also concerns over a rare side effect called myocarditis — inflammation of the heart...

When asked what proportion of children had already had Covid, he replied: ‘It varies by age and it does also vary by setting, but I think if we go for roughly half I think that is a reasonable stab at this.
‘That’s half over the period of the entire epidemic to date, and we’ve got quite a way to run.’...

Yesterday in a Commons debate about the move to vaccinate children, Bolton West MP Chris Green said: ‘In many ways we can objectively say we are through the worst of the pandemic and yet the more draconian or authoritarian measures are being introduced at this stage. It’s perverse.’

MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge Miriam Cates, who led the debate, questioned the logic behind the plans, adding: ‘Children are not disease spreaders, they’re not a buffer for our healthcare system and they’re not an economic inconvenience.’...

Britain began inoculating healthy secondary school-aged children with a single dose of Pfizer’s vaccine for the first time yesterday.

It did so despite originally not getting the blessing from No10’s vaccines advisory panel, which said the health benefit to youngsters was ‘marginal’...

Will it need parental consent?
But the courts have previously ruled that under-16s are competent to give consent to an intervention if they have ‘sufficient understanding and intelligence to understand fully what is proposed’.
This is known as the ‘Gillick test’, and has been in place since the 1980s...

Can children overrule their parents?
Mr Zahawi said today that children as young as 12 could be able to overrule their parents to get the vaccine.
But he admitted this was likely to be a ‘very rare occurrence’ for the youngest... children.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10017431/Professor-Chris-Whitty-warns-unjabbed-youngsters-infected.html

23 Sept: UK Mirror: ‘Covid is going to just become a cold’: Vaccine pioneer says virus will get weaker all the time
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, who worked on the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, has predicted that Covid-19 is unlikely to mutate into a deadlier or more virulent variant
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert made the comments at a Royal Society of Medicine seminar
by Milo Boyd
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/covid-going-just-become-cold-25050545