Do not undergo a national roll out program of covid vaccines for under 5s

Rejected 16 signatures

What the petition asks

Do not roll out COVID vaccines for under 5s, unless there is a clearly evidenced, health only benefit for the individual child. This must be based on long term data & not extrapolated from other age groups, or be assumed from other vaccines using different technology.

The CMOs approved jabs for 12-15 year olds in contradiction to advice from JCVI on educational rather than health benefits. JCVI were not aware of any evidence of educational benefits & stated concerns vaccination could disrupt education. The FDA approved Pfizer to be used on under 5s based on weak efficacy data, using a very small sample size: The claimed efficacy after dose 3 was based on a difference of 3 versus 7 infections. Blinded safety surveillance was for < 2 months after dose 3

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you are concerned about the prospect of a national covid-19 vaccination programme for under 5s, but it's not clear if you want the Government to commit to not having such a programme at all, or if you only want a programme to go ahead in certain circumstances. If the latter, it would need to be clear exactly what criteria you wanted to be met before a national programme went ahead.

Timeline

27 Jun 2022	Petition opened for signatures
4 Jul 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 16

Status Rejected

Rejected 4 Jul 2022

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