Minutes of key meetings held in September 2021 in which the U.K.’s four Chief Medical Officers agreed to overrule the Government’s vaccine advisers to push through the vaccination of children for COVID-19 have been released – and they’re damning.
They indicate:
- Significant undeclared conflicts of interest.
- No ethical input was sought or received by the CMOs.
- A divergence of views between CMOs including concerns over potentially significant unknown vaccine harms.
The minutes were obtained under a Freedom of Information request by campaign group UsForThem. They reveal that when the CMOs authorised the mass rollout of a Covid vaccine to 12 to 15 year olds – a decision taken despite the Government’s own expert vaccine advisory committee, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) having repeatedly declined to recommend it for healthy children – some of the parties involved in the critical meetings appear not to have declared potentially significant conflicts of interest.
They also show that some of the CMOs and their deputies raised concerns about the risk of exposing children to potentially significant known and unknown harms by proceeding with a mass rollout, but these concerns were set aside.
Despite the ethically contentious nature of their decision, the CMOs also appear neither to have sought nor received ethical input from the U.K. Government’s expert ethics committee.
The revelations come in a video released by UsForThem as part of a new series of exposés documenting serious pandemic wrongdoing.
