Here are some of the comments from people in authority in recent weeks on the Oxford and Pfizer Covid jabs which have been authorised for emergency use only in the UK.
Prof Sir Munir Pirmohamed, a doctor who has been assessing vaccine safety on behalf of the UK, said: “It is extremely safe. The benefits far outweigh the risks. I say that to my family as well.”
MHRA chief executive Dr June Raine said: “Safety is our watchword. It is vital that people continue to get their jab when they get the invitation.”
Professor Jonathan Van Tam, deputy medical officer to the UK said: “If you have a vaccine … and you think you’ve had some kind of reaction to it or a side effect, you can report that on the yellow card system. That’s being done every single day spontaneously by the public in relation to the Covid-19 vaccines that we’ve deployed.
“We are well over the 12 million mark now in terms of vaccines we’ve deployed. We’re getting to a point where, if we were going to see any kind of safety signal, it would be pretty obvious by now”.
Many will of course take Van Tam’s words at face value, he has been familiar face on the majority of the nations television screens throughout the past year with his hypnotic tone and nutty analogies. His latest being about running a hot bath in relation to the “new variants” which we predicted would come....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
