UK: Joint Committee on Vaccines & Immunizations ‘largely opposed’ to Covid vaccination for children under 16

The Guardian ^ | Aug 2021 | Rowena Mason and Jessica Elgot

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Members of the government’s expert committee on vaccination remain largely opposed to extending Covid jabs to younger teenagers, despite politicians having signalled they would like to see a shift in the guidance, the Guardian has been told.

The JCVI has moved to “refresh” the membership of its Covid subcommittee in recent weeks, with one prominent critic of Covid jabs for children, Prof Robert Dingwall, leaving the body.

Dingwall and others on the committee said his views were not the reason for the shake-up, and that sentiment on the body is still that the risks outweigh the benefits for 12- to 15-year-olds. Three other members – Prof Lucy Yardley, Prof Liz Miller and Prof Bryan Charleston – also left at a similar time.

His departure was reported by the Spectator on Thursday and sparked outrage in some quarters of social media, but Dingwall said his departure was to do with pulling more work back into the main JCVI committee.

Dingwall was co-opted to the JCVI’s Covid-19 committee from the chief medical officer’s Moral and Ethical Advisory Group, of which he remains a member.

He has previously expressed scepticism about vaccinating children, saying they were at “low risk for Covid” and suggested they might have been better protected by simply catching the virus. He has also written previously in favour of lifting Covid restrictions once the population is mostly vaccinated.

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Because it literally logically makes no sense.

Children are low risk, extremely low risk. Covid is highly age specific, then based on co-morbidities, and finally sex (males get it worse).

In all of the US, including those that are at risk because of comorbidities, since 2019 the US had 950 deaths from folks 19 or under, and that includes early on where there was no test and folks with mere symptoms were automatically diagnosed as having Covid...

Reason me this: Why would you take an experimental drug, using a fairly new technique in vaccine development equals unknown risk to children 19 and under, which are factually known to not be at risk.

Cost/benefit: Known and “UNKNOWN” risks for a known marginal/miniscule benefit?

Who comes up with these ideas?

This makes about as much sense as taking positive tested old folks and stuffing them back into senior living homes! Our government simply makes decisions to make decisions, action for the sake of showing action... but the shit don’t even make sense anymore!