UK Government Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for Healthy People Under 50

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The United States has continued its aggressive vaccination campaign, promoting both the primary series and multiple boosters to most of the population. Even infants and babies are advised to get three doses.

By Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times, January 26, 2023

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People under 50 without conditions that put them at risk of contracting COVID-19 will soon be unable to get a COVID-19 booster, the UK government announced on Jan. 25.

Uptake in the under-50 population has been extremely low since early 2022 and the government is accepting a recommendation from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to end the booster campaign for most of the age group.

The booster availability to healthy individuals in the age group will end in the UK on Feb. 12, the government said.

National Health Service (NHS) official Steve Russell said that people should get their booster before the availability ends.

“The NHS will continue to operate a smaller scale vaccine offer from mid-February onwards to ensure those eligible for first and second doses can still get their jabs,” UK Health Minister Maria Caulfield said.

Health officials have also accepted the recommendation to end the availability of the initial vaccination, or a primary series, for the population not at clinical risk subject to further consideration, according to Caulfield.

No date has been given as of yet for the end of the primary series campaign. The JCVI recommended that it be ended before the end of 2023, narrowing the targets to “those persons at higher risk of severe COVID-19,” including individuals aged 12 to 49 who are household contacts of immune-suppressed people.

Most children in the UK are already unable to get a booster or primary series.


‘Transition Continues

The JCVI said that the change in vaccine availability stems from the high levels of immunity acquired through vaccination and infection as well as the lower severity of cases that Omicron and its subvariants cause when compared to earlier strains.

“Based on the current data, keeping the booster (third dose) offer open to these groups is considered of limited ongoing value and the overall impact on vaccine coverage is negligible,” the committee said.

Officials also noted that after an initial high uptake of a booster, or third dose, in December 2021, uptake has been low, at less than 0.1 percent per week since April 2022 in all people under 50 who are eligible for a booster.

The vast majority of people aged 12 and older have received a primary series, but booster uptake has been much less prevalent, especially among younger people. Of those aged 50 and up, the older a person was, the more likely they were to get a booster as part of a campaign launched in the fall of 2022. More than 8 out of 10 people aged 75 or older, for instance, received a booster, compared to just 42.4 percent of those aged 50 to 54.

Other developed countries have also seen enthusiasm for the vaccines lag as a growing body of evidence shows that their effects are worse initially against the newer variants that have emerged and that the protection quickly wanes, especially against infection. Some studies have indicated that the vaccinated are more likely to get infected after a period of time.

UK authorities approved the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent boosters in late 2022 to try to better combat COVID-19.

Based on advice from the JCVI, an independent committee that advises the government on vaccines, the government will focus on vaccinating and boosting the elderly as well as people with compromised immune systems.

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Other Countries

The United States has continued its aggressive vaccination campaign, promoting both the primary series and multiple boosters to most of the population. Even infants and babies are advised to get three doses.

Some other countries, in addition to the UK, have gradually eased up on vaccines.

Denmark’s government, for instance, announced in September 2022 that it would stop offering boosters to people under 50.

In numbers released on Jan. 25, UK authorities said (pdf) they calculated that tens of thousands of healthy, young people would need a booster in order to prevent a single hospitalization. That included 168,200 boosters to prevent a single hospitalization in those aged 20 to 29.

The calculus was different for older people. For all people aged 70 or higher, for instance, the figure was 800.

Authorities didn’t provide calculations for how many adverse events tens of thousands of vaccinations would cause. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been documented to cause heart inflammation and other side effects, including severe allergic shock.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist who has called for the withdrawal of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, hailed the end of the booster campaign for many.

“But this alone is not good enough. We must help the vaccine injured & make the government, the regulator & Pharma fully accountable,” he wrote on Twitter.

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Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Every country should be ending the Franken Shot of Poison for everyone.

LaddyboyD
Laddyboy
1 year ago

Tis a SHAM, a SHAME and an EMBARRASSMENT that these governmental controllers are attempting to obliterate MILLIONS of lives using and pushing an “EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE” just to make a penny!

Vanessa
Vanessa
1 year ago
Reply to  Laddyboy

No governmental controllers are doing that. The only embarrassment is your unbelievable stupidity.

Edward George Kennedy
Edward George Kennedy
1 year ago

Murderers and criminals exist in the CYSTem that is corrupt and out of control.

kermpn2
kermpn2
1 year ago

I may be missing something here but the wearing of useless masks while protesting vaccine mandates strikes me as absurd. Masks and “vaccines” are both useless and have proven to be, on balance, bad ideas.

dabooh
dabooh
1 year ago

I am British.
Our government has betrayed us.

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