COVID VACCINE ELIGIBILITY 🇬🇧,
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JCVI have just advised that, going forwards, eligibility for Covid vaccination will be even more tightly restricted.
But the ‘bespoke cost-effectiveness assessment’ upon which this is based is heavily flawed…
https://gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-in-2025-and-spring-2026-jcvi-advice/jcvi-statement-on-covid-19-vaccination-in-2025-and-spring-2026
a thread🧵
JCVI have just advised that, going forwards, eligibility for Covid vaccination will be even more tightly restricted.
But the ‘bespoke cost-effectiveness assessment’ upon which this is based is heavily flawed…
https://gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-in-2025-and-spring-2026-jcvi-advice/jcvi-statement-on-covid-19-vaccination-in-2025-and-spring-2026
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I have never been doubted or checked.
In the UK, if you’re under 65 and not ‘at risk’, the last time you were eligible for a Covid vaccination was 2 years ago (Autumn 2022).
For most under 50s, it’s been 3 years since you were eligible (Autumn 2021).
Their governments recommend that certain risk groups should get vaccinated…
…but even outside these risk groups, ANYONE who wants to get vaccinated, can be as part of their national vax programme.
There are 4 main issues:
1️⃣ The analysis *only* considered hospital & ICU admissions and deaths using reported data from 2023/24.
https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.08.24316972v2.full.pdf
For starters, Covid hospital data is now significantly under-reported.
Since April 2023, most patients with Covid symptoms are no longer tested to confirm if they have Covid, unless they are clinically vulnerable & eligible for antiviral treatment…
https://gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-testing-from-1-april-2024
Even the experts at UKHSA agree that changes in hospital testing policy in April 2023 had a significant impact on hospitalisation numbers.
Hundreds of thousands of PCR tests used to be performed every single day. Now we’re down to a teeny tiny fraction of that.