Norman Fenton, professor of risk and information management at the Queen Mary University of London and director of risk assessment software company Agena, told The Epoch Times he used to believe that people at risk of serious illnesses and death from COVID-19 can benefit from the vaccines, but no longer sees “any evidence at all that anybody should get vaccinated” based on more recent data.
Fenton is a member of the Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART), a group of UK academics who are critical of the government’s response to the pandemic.
Diagnostic pathologist Dr. Clare Craig, also a member of the HART group, called on the government to “get realistic,” saying people can’t be expected to be injected “at great expense every six months,” and that “pushing another vaccination campaign will just ramp up fear again.”
Many mutations in the coronavirus have been observed in its spike protein, which binds to host cell receptors, fuses the virus envelope with the host cell membrane, and starts an infection.
Repeatedly vaccinating people against older versions of the spike protein, Craig argues, is “forcing our immune system to go down one particular strategy” while the virus is “evolving away from having that appearance.” She also said the spike protein, which is included in the COVID-19 vaccines, is the “most damaging” part of the virus.
According to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, the primary aim of the UK’s autumn booster programme is to increase immunity in those at higher risk of hospitalisation and death from COVID-19 this winter.
The government advisory body said the recommended mRNA vaccines offer “lower and relatively short-lived” protection against infection and mild disease while giving “good protection against severe disease” from coronavirus variants, with the implication being that the vaccines will reduce the number of deaths from COVID-19.
However, Craig and Fenton contended that the vaccines had not demonstrated effectiveness in saving lives....<<<Read More>>>...
