Thread by @karamballes

@HelenEBedford arguing hard against child vax, why do so many professionals and experts in the media say we need to wait until its approved, the MHRA have approved it, have JVCI replaced the regulator?
Do these experts no longer trust MHRA? Ah she's just answered..
@StephenNolan

She says the MHRA approving a product doesn't mean its safe, makes out that children are at higher risk from the vaccine, we can hit HI without child vax, and says risks to children of covid are nearly zero

Flinn of the JCVI was on yesterday. Wouldnt confirm the Telegraph story but then went on about balance of risks, the main argument im getting from the JCVI members is that their calculation of covid risk including long covid are incredibly low

Flinn said children are harder to infect and considerably less likely to infect others.
He's basically quoting Viners study from early on in the pandemic, a study still being quoted in official docs like the Green book

Very problematic if JCVI are calculating the balance of risks based on a limited scope of sources, their sums will be wrong.
Also Viner doesn't match up with the thinking that schools will provide a fire break in transmission. I'm seeing a return to this kids less infections line

I guess going back to arguments from April 2020 which have been proven wrong are useful if the gov is planning on mass infection.