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Healthy British citizens under 50 will no longer be able to get COVID-19 boosters beginning next month, according to reports.
This is the program’s first scaling back, which started out with lockdowns and mandatory masks.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, or JCVI, said the transition continues to move away from a pandemic emergency response and toward pandemic recovery.
The U.K. is expected to continue offering the first vaccine doses to anyone over the age of 16, but boosters are a different story.
Once in effect, only people over the age of 50 will be able to get a booster, although people who are younger and immunosuppressed will qualify.
Kate Bingham told the Financial Times that vaccinating everyone in the country was “not going to happen”, adding: “We just need to vaccinate everyone at risk.
People keep talking about ‘time to vaccinate the whole population’, but that is misguided,” she said. “There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.
Ms Bingham said vaccination policy would be aimed at those “most at risk” and noted that vaccinating healthy people, who are much less likely to have severe outcomes from Covid-19, “could cause them some freak harm”, potentially tipping the scales in terms of the risk-benefit analysis
Denmark will no longer be offering COVID-19 vaccines to people under 50-years-old, months after ending vaccination for those under 18-years-old
originally posted by: TheLieWeLive
Of course they are. There are less questions when someone 50 years or older dies than an 18 year old. I guess they have reached their sudden death quota for the youth.
50 and over? Probably need to remove more pensioners out of the system before the funds run out.
Ms Bingham said vaccination policy would be aimed at those “most at risk” and noted that vaccinating healthy people, who are much less likely to have severe outcomes from Covid-19, “could cause them some freak harm”, potentially tipping the scales in terms of the risk-benefit analysis
we could have isolated and vaxxed the elderly and continued on, but TPTB choose to go full bore when the situation didn't warrant it, and it was obvious 6-8 weeks in.
originally posted by: putnam6
so NOW they are going to an age-based vaccine program?
You mean just like a plethora of people suggested would be the correct course of action in the beginning?
Makes complete sense when you actually look at the demographics of those who have serious cases or who have passed.
Always has, we could have isolated and vaxxed the elderly and continued on, but TPTB choose to go full bore when the situation didn't warrant it, and it was obvious 6-8 weeks in.
Not that long before the start of this absurd and dangerous public health policy of mass and mandatory vaccinations
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: putnam6
so NOW they are going to an age-based vaccine program?
You mean just like a plethora of people suggested would be the correct course of action in the beginning?
Makes complete sense when you actually look at the demographics of those who have serious cases or who have passed.
Always has, we could have isolated and vaxxed the elderly and continued on, but TPTB choose to go full bore when the situation didn't warrant it, and it was obvious 6-8 weeks in.
There should have never been a vaccination program for the healthy and young. Even for those healthy that are between the age of 50-65. Vaccinations should have been offered for those over the age of 65 and especially with comorbidities and the younger people who were immunosuppressed or had serious issues such as cancer & diabetes or a few other.
Look what Kate Bingham said back in October 2020 a few weeks before the start of the vaccination program in the UK. She was the Head of the vaccine task force.
originally posted by: RAY1990
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Not that long before the start of this absurd and dangerous public health policy of mass and mandatory vaccinations
See that's where you lost me.
It wasn't mandatory and I've been saying for a while that the UK has all but given up pushing vaccines. The only people who are offered vaccinations are those who are potentially immuno-compromised. Just like the flu jab.
SSDD. It's like reading propaganda or being caught between two equally crap salesmen. Mandatory masks and lockdowns was like 2 years ago here, stop living in the past.
originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: putnam6
we could have isolated and vaxxed the elderly and continued on, but TPTB choose to go full bore when the situation didn't warrant it, and it was obvious 6-8 weeks in.
If they had only vaccinated those over 50 the alarming increase in deaths and serious adverse events would have been obvious in the first month. They had to vaccinate everybody to muddy the waters and make new millionaires.
Typical response from the bootlickers and vaccine cheerleaders.