UK Medical Experts Object to Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout for 12- to 15-Year-Olds: Myocarditis Risk By Richard Miller (London)
While the Australian mainstream has ploughed ahead with the quest to vaccinate all human life forms, including 12-to-15-year old’s, in the UK, not all scientific elites agree. A number of medical experts have presented an open letter to members of the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation (JCVI). The experts said data proved that “for males under 40, risk of myocarditis was up to 14 times higher after vaccination than after infection” and the risk of myocarditis in young men and boys increased “significantly after a second dose of the vaccine.” The experts also argued the vaccines are less effective “at stemming the transmission of Omicron compared to Delta” and therefore there may be few advantages for young people facing the potential increased risks from the jabs.
“Dozens of medical professors, heads of scientific organizations, MP’s and experts in immunology asked UK regulators to overhaul the country’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout for 12- to 15-year-olds based on new data showing a high risk of myocarditis in that age group.
In an open letter to members of the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation (JCVI), the experts said data prove that “for males under 40, risk of myocarditis was up to 14 times higher after vaccination than after infection” and the risk of myocarditis in young men and boys increased “significantly after a second dose of the vaccine.”
They also argued the vaccines are less effective “at stemming the transmission of Omicron compared to Delta” and therefore there may be few advantages to exposing young people to the potential increased risks.
The experts wrote that our children “have 50 or more years of healthy life expectancy ahead of them that could be compromised by long-term vaccine harms.”
They added:
“It is crucial that, if we are to proceed with the mass double vaccination of healthy children, we are absolutely certain that this policy will do more good than harm. Furthermore, we need to give consideration to what precedent is being set for triple or even continuous and regular vaccination for this age group.”
The concerned professionals warned the medical authorities against taking hasty action that could cause long-term harm:
“The risk and benefit calculations made by the JCVI and the chief medical officers were based on less complete data on both the harms and benefits of vaccinating children compared to the evidence now available.
“Four months later, we are in a very different position, with the virulent Delta variant almost completely replaced by the milder Omicron variant. Additionally, society now has a higher level of robust immunity from natural infection than it had when teenage vaccination was approved.”
Here’s the full letter:
Letter From Politicians and Scientists Regarding Vaccination of Children
To Members of the Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation
Re: Review of Child Vaccination Programme
On September 3, 2021 the JCVI advised against recommending the mass vaccination of healthy 12-15-year-olds against Covid-19. The principal reason given for this was that, while the known benefits and harms from vaccination to this age group were both very small, the Committee was concerned about the unknown potential harms of the new vaccine, particularly the long-term and possibly serious risks of myocarditis.
The JCVI estimated that for every one million 12-15-year-olds vaccinated with two doses, 2.54 ICU admissions would be avoided and up to 51 cases of myocarditis caused. Subsequently, the risk of myocarditis and other adverse events has been shown to be greater than believed by the JCVI at the time.
The Government referred the matter to the CMO, asking him to consider the ‘wider benefits’ to children of vaccination. On September 13, 2021, Professor Chris Whitty recommended that one dose of the vaccine be given to healthy 12-15-year-olds on the basis that it would possibly provide “marginal benefits,” specifically in reducing the time spent out of school as a result of Covid infection.
This was calculated as a saving of, on average, 15 mins of education per child. (This estimate did not take into account disruption even from short-term vaccine side effects and is also based on assumptions about the level of protection one dose of the vaccine gives against infection which has proved to be over-optimistic.)
The risk and benefit calculations made by the JCVI and the CMO were based on less complete data on both the harms and benefits of vaccinating children compared to the evidence now available. Four months later, we are in a very different position, with the virulent Delta variant almost completely replaced by the milder Omicron variant. Additionally, society now has a higher level of robust immunity from natural infection than it had when teenage vaccination was approved.
We have seen in recent weeks that Omicron is significantly more infectious than Delta (based on secondary attack rates, it was originally twice as transmissible as Delta, but this has declined to 1.3 times as transmissible as naturally acquired variant-specific immunity to it has risen). Vaccines are also far less effective at stemming the transmission of Omicron, compared to Delta (protection appears to fall to zero, three months after vaccination).
More data have emerged about the frequency of harmful side effects of Covid vaccination. One study found that for males under 40, risk of myocarditis was up to 14 times higher after vaccination than after infection (101 cases after the Moderna second dose, compared to 7 cases after infection).
It is particularly important to note that the risks of myocarditis in young men and boys seem to increase significantly after a second dose of the vaccine — which is why Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty initially recommended just one dose be given to 12- 15-year-olds — and yet we are now offering second doses to children, despite the evidence of risk growing.
It therefore seems clear that the risk-to-benefit ratio for child Covid vaccination has worsened since September. The risks of adverse events (including but not limited to myocarditis) increase as more doses are given, and any advantages are reduced as vaccine effectiveness in suppressing Omicron transmission decreases (especially given widespread natural immunity).
Given that any potential benefits of vaccinating children were calculated to be marginal at best in the first place, we suspect that this margin has not only evaporated but actually reversed in light of the characteristics of the new and dominant Omicron variant and the increase in robust and durable naturally-acquired immunity.”
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