Mar 8, 2023
- Covid not deadly enough to fast-track vaccines, Chris Whitty advised ministers
- Chief Medical Officer gave opinion in February 2020 after Dominic Cummings mentioned Israel was planning to inoculate population
- Prof Sir Chris Whitty told Matt Hancock
- Diseases with a mortality rate in the range of 1%
- would need a “very safe” vaccine
- the necessary clinical trials would be a “rate limiting step”.
- May 2021 Mr Cummings Told a Covid group of MPs
- “unarguable” that the vaccine trials process should have happened more quickly.
- Taken “literally hours” for a vaccine to be invented in January 2020
- Government should have recruited 5,000-10,000 for human challenge trials
- (Human challenge trials started in January 2021)
- Preparing for a successful spring 2023 COVID-19 booster campaign
- Booster campaign in England, April 17 to June 30.
- Adults aged 75 years and over Residents in a care home for older adults
- Individuals aged 5 years and over who are immunosuppressed Vaccination, six months after previous dose
- Millions now able to book their autumn booster (7 September 2022)
- Resident Jean Rosebuck said: “I wanted the vaccine so it doesn’t go around the carers and other residents”.
- Fellow resident Tom Spinks, 80, said: “I wanted to get the booster because it keeps everyone safe and gives me peace of mind”.
What about the CDC?
Originally posted at Dr Campbells YouTube Channel
