3. Bijlage - Brieven en informatie bij brief Regenboogteam

Open Letter from UK doctors: Safety and Ethical Concerns Surrounding COVID19 Vaccination in Children to Dr June Raine, Chief Executive, MHRA We wish to notify you of our grave concerns regarding all proposals to administer COVID-19 vaccines to children. Recently leaked Government documents suggested that a COVID-19 vaccine rollout in children over 12 years old is already planned for September 2021, and the possibility of children as young as 5 years old being vaccinated in the summer in a worst-case scenario.1 We have been deeply disturbed to hear several Government and SAGE representatives calling in the media for the COVID -19 vaccine rollout to be “turning to children as fast as we can”.2 Teaching materials circulated to London schools contain emotionally loaded questions and inaccuracies3.

In addition, there has been disturbing language used by teaching union leaders, implying that coercion of children to accept the COVID-19 vaccines through peer pressure in schools was to be encouraged, despite the fact that coercion to accept a medical treatment is against UK and International Laws and Declarations.4 Rhetoric such as this is irresponsible and unethical, and encourages the public to demand the vaccination of minors with a product still at the research stage and about which no medium- or long-term effects are known, against a disease which presents no material risk to them. A summary of our reasons is given below and a more detailed fully referenced explanation is available.5 Risks and benefits in medical treatments Vaccines, like any other medical treatment, come with varied risks and benefits. Therefore, we must consider each product, individually, on its merits, and specifically for which patients or sections of the population is the risk/benefit ratio acceptable. For COVID-19 vaccines, the potential benefits are clear for the elderly and vulnerable, however, for children, the balance of benefit and risk would be quite different. We are raising these concerns as part of an informed debate, which is a vital part of the proper, scientific process.

We must ensure that there is no repeat of any past tragedies which have occurred especially when vaccines are rushed to market. For example, the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix, rolled out following the pandemic of 2010, resulted in over one thousand cases of narcolepsy, a devastating brain injury, in children and teenagers, before being withdrawn.6 Dengvaxia, a new vaccine against Dengue, was also rolled out to children ahead of the full trial outcomes, and 19 children died of possible antibodydependent enhancement (ADE) before the vaccine was withdrawn.7 We must not risk a repeat of this with the COVID-19 vaccines, which would not only impact on the children and families affected, but would also have a hugely damaging effect on vaccination uptake in general. No medical intervention should be introduced on a ‘one size fits all’ basis, but instead should be fully assessed for suitability according to the characteristics of the age cohort and of the individuals concerned, weighing up the risk versus benefit profile for each cohort and the individuals within a group. This approach was outlined last October, by the head of the Government Vaccine Task Force, Kate Bingham, who said “We just need to vaccinate everyone at risk. There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18.

It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.”8

Children do not need vaccination for their own protection Healthy children are at almost no risk from COVID-19, with risk of death as low as 1 in 2.5 million9. No previously healthy child under the age of 15 died during the pandemic in the UK and admissions to hospital or intensive care are exceedingly rare10 with most children having no or very mild symptoms. Although Long-Covid has been cited as a reason for vaccinating children, there is little hard data. It appears less common and much shorterlived than in adults and none of the vaccine trials have studied this outcome11 12. The inflammatory condition, PIMS, was listed as a potential adverse effect in the Oxford AstraZeneca children’s trial13. Naturally acquired immunity will give broader and better lasting immunity than vaccination14. Indeed, many children will already be immune15. Individual children at very high risk can already receive vaccination on compassionate grounds16. Children do not need vaccination to support herd immunity Already, two thirds of the adult population have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine17. Models that assume vaccination of children is required to reach herd immunity have failed to account for the proportion who had immunity prior to March 2020 and those who have acquired it naturally18.

Recent modelling suggested that the UK had achieved the required herd immunity threshold on 12 April 202119. Children do not transmit SARS-CoV-2 as readily as adults, moreover adults living or working with young children are at lower risk of severe COVID-1920. Schools have not been shown to be the focus on spread to the community, teachers have a lower risk of COVID -19 than other working age adults21. Short-term safety concerns As of 13th May, the MHRA22 has received a total of 224,544 adverse events, including 1,145 deaths in association with SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. Reports of strokes due to cerebral venous thromboses were initially in low numbers but as awareness increased, many more reports led to the conclusion that AstraZeneca vaccine should not be used for adults under 40 years of age and this unpredicted finding has also led to the suspension of the Oxford AstraZeneca children’s trial. Similar events have been noted with Pfizer & Moderna vaccines on the US adverse reporting system (VAERS)23 and it is likely that this is a class effect related to production of spike protein. New UK guidelines on managing Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT)24 include all COVID-19 vaccines in their advice. The possibility of further unexpected safety issues cannot be ruled out.

In Israel, where the vaccines have been widely rolled out to young people and teenagers, the Pfizer vaccine has been linked to several cases of myocarditis in young men25 and concerns have been raised about reports of altered menstrual cycles and abnormal bleeding in young women following the vaccine.26 Most concerning with regard to possible vaccination of children, is that there have now been a number of deaths associated with vaccination reported to the VAERS system in the US, despite the vaccines only being given to children within trials and a very recent rollout to 16-17 year olds27. Long-term safety concerns All Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trials are ongoing and not due to conclude until late 2022/early 2023. The vaccines are, therefore, currently experimental with only limited

short-term and no long-term adult safety data available. In addition, many are using a completely new mRNA vaccine technology, which has never previously been approved for use in humans28. The mRNA is effectively a pro-drug and it is not known how much spike protein any individual will produce. Potential late-onset effects can take months or years to become apparent. The limited children’s trials undertaken to date are totally underpowered to rule out uncommon but severe side effects. Children have a lifetime ahead of them, and their immunological and neurological systems are still in development, making them potentially more vulnerable to adverse effects than adults. A number of specific concerns have been raised already, including autoimmune disease and possible effects on placentation and fertility.29 A recently published paper raised the possibility that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines could trigger prion-based, neurodegenerative disease30. All potential risks, known and unknown, must be balanced against risks of COVID-19 itself, so a very different benefit/risk balance will apply to children than to adults. Conclusion There is important wisdom in the Hippocratic Oath which states, “First do no harm”. All medical interventions carry a risk of harm, so we have a duty to act with caution and proportionality.

This is particularly the case when considering mass intervention in a healthy population, in which situation there must be firm evidence of benefits far greater than harms. The current, available evidence clearly shows that the risk versus benefit calculation does NOT support administering rushed and experimental COVID -19 vaccines to children, who have virtually no risk from COVID -19, yet face known and unknown risks from the vaccines. The Declaration of the Rights of the Child states that, “the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection”.31 As adults we have a duty of care to protect children from unnecessary and foreseeable harm. We conclude that it is irresponsible, unethical and indeed, unnecessary, to include children under 18 years in the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Clinical trials in children also pose huge ethical dilemmas, in light of the lack of potential benefit to trial participants and the unknown risks. The end of the current Phase 3 trials should be awaited as well as several years of safety data in adults, to rule out, or quantify, all potential adverse effects. We call upon our governments and the regulators not to repeat mistakes from history, and to reject the calls to vaccinate children against COVID-19.

Extreme caution has been exercised over many aspects of the pandemic, but surely now is the most important time to exercise true caution - we must not be the generation of adults that, through unnecessary haste and fear, risks the health of children. Signatories Dr Rosamond Jones, MD, FRCPCH, retired consultant paediatrician Lord Moonie, MBChB, MRCPsych, MFCM, MSc, House of Lords, former parliamentary undersecretary of state 2001-2003, former consultant in Public Health Medicine Prof Anthony Fryer, PhD, FRCPath, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Keele University Professor Karol Sikora, MA, MBBChir, PhD, FRCR, FRCP, FFPM, Dean of Medicine, Buckingham University, Professor of Oncology Professor Angus Dalgleish, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FRCPath, FMed Sci, Professor of Oncology, St Georges Hospital London

Professor Richard Ennos, MA, PhD. Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh Professor Anthony J Brookes, Department of Genetics & Genome Biology, University of Leicester Dr John A Lee, MBBS, PhD, FRCPath, retired Consultant Histopathologist, former Clinical Professor of Pathology at Hull York Medical School Dr Alan Mordue, MBChB, FFPH (ret). Retired Consultant in Public Health Medicine & Epidemiology Dr Elizabeth Evans, MA, MBBS, DRCOG, retired doctor Mr Malcolm Loudon, MB ChB, MD, FRCSEd, FRCS (Gen Surg). MIHM, VR. Consultant Surgeon Dr Gerry Quinn, Microbiologist Dr C Geoffrey Maidment, MD, FRCP, retired consultant physician Dr K Singh, MBChB, MRCGP, general practitioner Dr Pauline Jones MB BS retired general practitioner Dr Holly Young, BSc, MBChB, MRCP, Consultant physician, Croydon University Hospital Dr David Critchley, BSc, PhD, 32 years in pharmaceutical R&D as a clinical research scientist. Dr Padma Kanthan, MBBS, General practitioner Dr Thomas Carnwath, MBBCh,MA, FRCPsych, FRCGP, consultant psychiatrist Dr Sam McBride BSc(Hons) Medical Microbiology & Immunobiology, MBBCh BAO, MSc in Clinical Gerontology, MRCP(UK), FRCEM, FRCP(Edinburgh).

NHS Emergency Medicine & geriatrics Dr Helen Westwood MBChB MRCGP DCH DRCOG, general practitioner Dr M A Bell, MBChB, MRCP(UK), FRCEM, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, UK Mr Ian F Comaish, MA, BM BCh, FRCOphth, FRANZCO, Consultant ophthalmologist Dr Jayne LM Donegan MBBS, DRCOG, DCH, DFFP, MRCGP, general practitioner Dr Dayal Mukherjee, MBBS MSc Dr Clare Craig, BM,BCh, FRCPath, Pathologist Mr C P Chilton, MBBS, FRCS, Consultant urologist emeritus Dr Theresa Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD, Director, Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd, Bath Dr Jason Lester, MRCP, FRCR, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Rutherford Cancer Centre, Newport Dr Scott McLachan, FAIDH, MCSE, MCT, DSysEng, LLM, MPhil., Postdoctoral researcher, Risk & Information management Group Michael Cockayne, MSc, PGDip, SCPHNOH, BA, RN, Occupational health practitioner Dr John Flack, BPharm, PhD. Retired Director of Safety Evaluation at Beecham Pharmaceuticals 1980-1989 and Senior Vice-president for Drug Discovery 1990-92 SmithKline Beecham Dr Stephanie Williams, Dermatologist Dr Greta Mushet, retired Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy.

MBChB, MRCPsych Dr JE, MBChB, BSc, NHS hospital junior doctor Mr Anthony Hinton, MBChB, FRCS, Consultant ENT surgeon, London Dr Elizabeth Corcoran,MBBS,MRCPsych,Psychiatrist,Chair Down's Syndrome Research Foundation UK Dr Alan Black, MB BS MSc DipPharmMed, retired pharmaceutical physician Dr Christina Peers, MBBS,DRCOG,DFSRH,FFSRH, Consultant in Contraception & Reproductive Health Dr Marco Chiesa, MD, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist & Visiting Professor, UCL Elizabeth Burton, MB ChB, retired general practitioner Noel Thomas, MA, MB ChB, DCH, DObsRCOG, DTM&H, MFHom, retired doctor Malcolm Sadler, MBBS, FRCGP, retired general practitioner with 37 years in Medical Practice Dr Ian Bridges, MBBS, Retired general practitioner

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9502227/Coronavirus-UK-Children-young-12-Covid-vaccinesSeptember.html

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9285157/Sage-member-calls-children-Covid-jab-fast-avoid-riskresurgence.html 3 Critical Thinking Assembly on Vaccines 4 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/02/schools-back-mass-vaccinations-children-headteachers-saypeer/ 5 https://www.hartgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Covid19 Vaccine in Children FULL document.pdf 6 https://www.narcolepsy.org.uk/resources/pandemrix-narcolepsy 7 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/dengue-vaccine-fiasco-leads-criminal-charges-researcherphilippines 8 https://www.ft.com/content/d2e00128-7889-4d5d-84a3-43e51355a751 9 https://gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/5/9/e003094.full.pdf 10 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3249 11 Illness duration and symptom profile in a large cohort of symptomatic UK school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2 12 Post-acute COVID-19 outcomes in children with mild and asymptomatic disease 13 https://www.hartgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/COV006 Participant-Information-Sheet-16-17years V2.0 09Feb2021.pdf 14 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03207-w 15 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/1339 16 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/priority-groups-for-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-advicefrom-the-jcvi-30-december-2020/joint-committee-on-vaccination-and-immunisation-advice-on-prioritygroups-for-covid-19-vaccination-30-december-2020 17 Vaccinations |

Coronavirus in the UK (data.gov.uk) 18 https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563?fbclid=IwAR2v7qLBSWYOv4LdJB6ziwvzPaCvrvoaB1uzLQNRTMeCDkHHDo0a6Tsrto 19 Britain will achieve herd immunity by Monday, according to UCL 20 Sharing a household with children and risk of COVID-19: a study of over 300,000 adults living in healthcare worker households in Scotland 21 https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/2927/report-of-record-linkage-english-december2020.pdf 22 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions 23 https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html 24 Guidance produced from the Expert Haematology Panel (EHP) focussed on Covid-19 Vaccine induced Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia 25 https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-probing-link-between-pfizer-shot-and-heart-problem-in-menunder-30/ 26 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-women-say-covid-vaccines-affect-their-periods-so-whydon-t-doctors-care-1.9754865 27 https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html 28 https://www.immunology.org/coronavirus/connect-coronavirus-public-engagement-resources/typesvaccines-for-covid-19 29 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-020-00462-y 30 https://scivisionpub.com/pdfs/covid19-rna-based-vaccines-and-the-risk-of-prion-disease-1503.pdf 31 https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx

Z.M. Koning Willem-Alexander Paleis Noordeinde Postbus 30412 2500 GK Den Haag Adres afzender:

Brussel, 7 juli 2021

Majesteit, Betreft: WOB verzoek en herstel LinkedIn account Unico van Kooten en Artsen Covid Collectief In navolging op de 2 eerdere brieven die ik aan Uwe Majesteit heb gericht – over het nationale belang om de vrijheid van meningsuiting maximaal te borgen - verzoek ik u nu om het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijkrelaties aan te moedigen mijn WOB verzoek uit te voeren. Het WOB verzoek betreft het overhandigen van alle communicatie tussen de betrokken Ministeries en de organisatie LinkedIn in de periode van 19 juni tot en met 6 juli inzake het verwijderen van de LinkedIn accounts van Unico van Kooten, Dr. Robert Malone en het Artsen Covid Collectief. Entiteiten die in deze periode op hetzelfde onderwerp – namelijk het uitspreken van grote bezorgdheid over het vaccineren van gezonde kinderen in de leeftijd vanaf 12 jaar met Pfizer-BioNTech – actief waren en zonder notificatie vooraf verwijderd zijn van LinkedIn. Ik ben verwijderd op 21 juni, kort nadat ik contact had kunnen leggen met Dr. Malone. De reden van mijn verzoek raakt aan de kracht van onze democratie. Ik was in een proces om via LinkedIn steunbetuigingen te verzamelen over het onderwerp ten behoeve van een brief aan de Vaste Commissie van VWS. De verstuurde brieven zijn bijgevoegd. Tevens had ik op 19 juni LinkedIn contact weten te leggen met Dr.

Malone, de grondlegger van de mRNA vaccin techniek én een vooraanstaande zender van uitermate belangrijke signalen1 over de huidige generatie mRNA vaccins. Het nationaal belang van het kennisnemen van deze zorgelijke signalen zijn groot. Immers lijkt de risico/ benefit ratio negatief te zijn voor gezonde kinderen. Tevens is de observatie te maken dat de Gezondheidsraad onder grote druk een advies heeft geformuleerd. Immers kan in de tijdlijn vastgesteld worden dat de publieke opinie in Nederland via het OMT en de Minister van VWS al voorgekookt werd op het nog niet uitgebrachte advies van de “onafhankelijke” Gezondheidsraad. In navolging van dat treintje deed ook de Volkskrant een duit in het lobbyzakje door een aantal kinderartsen te bewegen zich alvast positief uit te spreken over het vaccineren van gezonde kinderen vanaf 12 jaar2. De heer Omtzigt heeft een warm pleidooi gehouden voor herstel van vertrouwen in het landsbestuur, de werking van onafhankelijke instituten en daarmee in onze democratie. Er lijkt nu sprake te zijn geweest van opzichtige obstructie en ik maak mij derhalve zorgen over het welbevinden van 1) onze democratie en 2) de gezondheid van de Nederlandse gezonde kinderen op korte- en lange termijn. Ik moge de Koning verzoeken de betuiging van mijn diepe eerbied te willen aanvaarden. Unico van Kooten

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https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/06/28/gebruik-tieners-niet-als-immunologisch-schild-a4049058 https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/de-kinderartsen-zijn-om-vaccineer-de-tieners~b5209991/

24 juni 2021

Ter attentie van de Vaste Commissie voor Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (VWS)

Bijlagen: - inbreng Artsen Covid Collectief 14 juni 2021 - vragen Regenboogteam 24 december 20203 - advies Duitse STIKO4 - positionering VK Hartgroup5 - Hoogleraar Christine Stabell Benn6 - Nieuwe inzichten gebracht door Robert Malone (uitvinder mRNA vaccins)7 8 - Lijst steunbetuigingen

Geachte voorzitter en leden van de Vaste Commissie VWS,

Zeer gaarne steunt een delegatie van het Regenboogteam het op 14 juni jongstleden aan u gerichte schrijven van het Artsen Covid Collectief inzake mogelijke coronavaccinatie van gezonde kinderen. Tevens roepen wij in herinnering ons schrijven van 24 december 2020 met gerichte vragen over coronavaccins. We constateren dat wij op deze inbreng voor Nederland tot heden geen antwoord hebben mogen ontvangen. Ons verzoek is derhalve aan u om deze antwoorden alsnog te verzorgen, ook in het licht van de bovengenoemde ontwikkeling. We beginnen onze brief van 24 december 2020 met de uitleg van een Moleculair Geneticus over nieuwe RNAvaccins, inclusief 11 geïntegreerde vragen. Dit deel van de bijdrage is peer-reviewed door verschillende wetenschappers, experts en een professor. Daarna volgen 7 technische - en aanvullende vragen (8-24) over coronavaccinatie en overheidsbeleid. Het tweede deel is door artsen, microbiologen, immunologen, professoren en juristen getoetst. Wij kijken uit naar beantwoording van de gestelde vragen, die in het licht van het – aanstaande debat – over het vaccineren van gezonde kinderen, uitermate relevant zijn om te beantwoorden. Met Hoogachting,

G.J.U. van Kooten Namens een delegatie van het Regenboogteam

Brief Artsen Covid Collectief 3

14 juni 2021

https://artsencollectief.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/vragen-vaccin-en-Informed-consent-en-Wgbo-combi-1.pdf

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https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Infekt/EpidBull/Archiv/2021/23/Art 01.html https://www.hartgroup.org/child-vaccination-irresponsible/ 6 https://overnu.nl/vaccin-hoogleraar-voordelen-pfizer-bij-kinderen-niet-groter-dan-risicos/ 5

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https://trialsitenews.com/how-to-save-the-world-in-three-easy-steps/

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https://www.rwmalonemd.com/news

Geachte leden van de Vaste Commissie voor Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, De Gezondheidsraad (GR) heeft afgelopen woensdag geadviseerd om kinderen van 12 tot en met 17 jaar uit medische risicogroepen te vaccineren tegen Covid-19. Het wachten is nu op een advies over het vaccineren van gezonde kinderen. Vooruitlopend hierop, willen wij nu al onze zorg uitspreken. Het belangrijkste principe van de artseneed is: primum non nocere. Ofwel: “In de eerste plaats geen schade doen”. Alleen al op basis van dit principe dient te worden afgezien van het vaccineren van gezonde kinderen. De EMA heeft het Pfizer-vaccin voorwaardelijk goedgekeurd op basis van één onderzoek, waarin slechts duizend gevaccineerde tieners zijn vergeleken met duizend controles. Daarbij beperkte het veiligheidsonderzoek zich tot de duur van slechts twee maanden. Over eventuele nadelige gevolgen op de langere termijn is nog niets bekend. De kans dat kinderen ernstig ziek worden met Covid-19 is zeer klein; de kans te overlijden nagenoeg nul. De overgrote meerderheid krijgt meestal geen of slechts milde klachten. Voor volwassenen hebben de coronavaccins een ‘voorwaardelijke’ EMA-goedkeuring gekregen vanwege emergency of noodzaak. Voor gezonde kinderen is er echter geen enkele noodzaak of emergency. Kinderen hebben evenmin een belangrijk aandeel in de verspreiding van het coronavirus (zie bijlage: BMJ-editorial).

De hamvraag luidt daarmee: moeten we gezonde kinderen met een heel leven voor zich gaan vaccineren om kwetsbare ouderen te beschermen? Jaap van Dissel stelt dat het vaccineren van kinderen helpt om de R-waarde te verlagen. Epidemioloog en kinderarts Patricia Bruijning (UMC Utrecht) zei afgelopen week in Het Parool: “Je moet kinderen vaccineren als dat voor henzelf voldoende nut heeft, niet enkel omdat het de R-waarde onder de 1 houdt.” Wij zijn het hartgrondig met haar eens. Nog nooit is in Nederland grootschalig een vaccin aan kinderen gegeven waarbij zij zelf niet direct baat hadden. Als kinderen voor het eerst in de historie worden gevaccineerd “voor een ander”, dient de veiligheid onomstotelijk vast te staan. Maar die data, en daarmee die zekerheid, zijn er nog niet. Het genoemde onderzoek onder tieners was veel te kort en te beperkt om eventuele bijwerkingen op (middel)lange termijn op te kunnen sporen. Over mogelijke schade op de lange duur tasten we volledig in het duister, en zo wordt met gezonde kinderen een onverantwoord risico genomen. De drama’s door het Mexicaanse griepvaccin staan helaas nog in ons geheugen gegrift. Laten we geen gok nemen met de gezondheid van onze kinderen om de R-waarde onder de 1 te houden. Zij hebben al te veel moeten opofferen de afgelopen anderhalf jaar en de jeugd is de toekomst.

Laten we onze kinderen niet als ‘schild’ gebruiken: wij moeten hen beschermen, en hun lichamelijke integriteit niet opofferen voor volwassenen. Dat is de omgekeerde wereld. Laten we opkomen voor het welzijn en de gezondheid van de generatie die nu opgroeit. Wij hopen van harte dat u notie wilt nemen van ons standpunt, met het oog op de beraadslagingen die komen gaan na het volgende GR-advies en de uiteindelijke besluitvorming. Graag zouden wij onze expertmening toelichten in een commissievergadering. Hoogachtend, Evelien Peeters, internist en voorzitter Artsen Covid Collectief Mede namens de meer dan 1.500 medisch specialisten aangesloten bij het Artsen Covid Collectief

28 juni 2021

Ter attentie van de Vaste Commissie voor Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (VWS)

Bijlagen: - Biodistributie spike-proteïne toegelicht9 - Prioriteit WHO is vaccinatie kwetsbaren, niet jongeren10 - De “risk-benefit” ratio voor kinderen is niet eenduidig positief en lijkt ongunstig te zijn11 - Dr Robert Malone – uitvinder mRNA vaccins – over “risk-benefit” ratio en deltavariant - Presentatie Professor Peter Doshi, FDA website vanaf 4 uur en 8 minuten12

Geachte voorzitter en leden van de Vaste Commissie VWS,

Zeer gaarne reik ik u aanvullende informatie aan ter ondersteuning van de volgende debatten over mogelijke coronavaccinatie van gezonde kinderen. Deze brief volgt op de eerder aan uw Commissie verzonden brief over het onderwerp (d.d. 24 juni 2021) en een meer algemeen schrijven met 24 vragen over coronavaccinatie (24 december 2020). Het lijkt verstandig dit onderwerp meer tijd te gunnen alvorens een afgewogen beslissing te kunnen nemen. De te snelle besluitvorming in de Verenigde Staten en Singapore maakt het voor deze landen politiek bijzonder lastig om nieuwe inzichten publiekelijk te erkennen en het ingezette vaccinatieprogramma op bijvoorbeeld gezonde kinderen daarop aan te passen. Een hoge mate van bedachtzaamheid en voorzorg is in deze kwestie van u allen gevraagd. Wij kijken uit naar beantwoording van de op 24 december 2020 gestelde vragen, die in het licht van de – aanstaande debatten – over het vaccineren van gezonde kinderen, uitermate relevant zijn om te beantwoorden. Ook in relatie tot de geconstateerde ongewenste biodistributie van het spike-proteïne. Het lijkt verstandig Dr. Robert Malone als expert uit te nodigen op dit onderwerp. Met Hoogachting,

G.J.U. van Kooten Namens een delegatie van het Regenboogteam

9 https://doorbraak.be/mrna-pionier-malone-we-negeren-fundamentele-ethische-

principes/?dbcode=e2981161567&u=945710710 10 https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2021/06/27/younger-kids-to-vax-or-not-to-vax-that-is-the-question/

11 https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/558757-the-ill-advised-push-to-vaccinate-the-young?rl=1 12 https://youtu.be/70Xhn3K9SlQ

Bijlage 4 Dr. Robert Malone about adolescents, children and infants and bioethics. 2:19 - 2:23 hrs https://www.bitchute.com/video/zxOH2J3PHh1t/ Bioethics on informed consent So absolutely, unequivocally, people under the age of 18 should not be coerced to receive vaccines and if they do receive vaccines there has to be parental approval. That is just the rules. WHO statement: Children should not be vaccinated for the moment! Personal opinion Dr. Robert Malone. No vaccination to children! “The justification that the Delta variant is going to spread more readily and has an increased admin threat to children. My problem with that is that it sounds an awful lot like scare tactics because I have not seen any data on the effects of the Delta variant in children. SO if you are going to make public health statements they ought to be data-based. That is the core here. So let's do science based medicine. Let's stop the fake it until you make it. SO if Delta variants represent an enhanced risk for children and adolescents show me the data. Show all of us the data. You owe it to us. The government has no right to coerce you to do things with your body. It is their obligation to convince us based on real information and give us the information that we can make our own judgments as adults because we are competent. We intuitively understand risk benefits.

We know that some people die in airplanes and yet we take airplanes all the time. Likewise with our cars. We can process this stuff. We are not children. We do not need the government to tell us what to do. What we need the government to do is to be frank and open and honest about what the actual data are and stop the scare tactics. So where I come down is that children and adolescents I am not aware of data that the Delta variant actually is an enhanced risk. It may be. show me the data. Otherwise, all the information that I have seen is the risk of covid disease - which is not the same as infection - in adolescents, children and infants is remarkably low and the risk of adverse events in those populations is not nothing. But not nothing divided by almost nothing is a big number. It is not the right risk benefit ratio that normally would be used to justify a vaccine intervention. So I think that ratio has too much risk, too little benefit and if public health services are going to make a case that they should be vaccinated let's see the data, let's see the actual calculations.”

10 REASONS why children and young people should NOT get the COVID-19 vaccines. 1. Children and young people have a mostly mild or asymptomatic presentation when infected with SARS-CoV-2. They are at near-zero risk of death from COVID-19. 2. There is an unusually high rate of reported adverse events and deaths following the COVID-19 vaccines compared to other vaccines. Some adverse events are more common in the young, especially myocarditis. Where potential harm exists from an innovation and little is known about it, the precautionary principle dictates to first do no harm. Better safe than sorry. 3. Medium and long-term safety data about the COVID-19 vaccines are still lacking. Children and young people have a remaining life expectancy of 55 to 80 years. Unknown harmful long-term effects are far more consequential for the young than for the elderly. 4. Vaccination policies rely on expected benefits clearly outweighing the risk of adverse events from the vaccination. The risk-benefit analysis for the COVID-19 vaccines points to a high potential risk versus no benefit for children and young people. 5. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from children to adults is minimal and adults in contact with children do not have higher COVID-19 mortality. 6. It is unethical to put children and young people at risk to protect adults.

Altruistic behaviors such as organ and blood donation are all voluntary. 7. Several prophylactic treatments as well as the COVID-19 vaccines are available to high-risk individuals so they can protect themselves. 8. Natural immunity from infection with SARS-CoV-2 is broad and robust and more effective than vaccine immunity, especially in combating variants. Children and young people are safer with natural immunity. 9. There are several prophylactic (preventive) protocols and effective treatments available to children and young people with comorbidities. 10. Vaccinating children and young people is not necessary for herd immunity. After a year and a half of the pandemic, most people either have pre-existing immunity from other coronaviruses, have recovered from COVID-19 or have been vaccinated. There is thus no medical or public health case for the mass vaccination of children and young people, or for coercive or restrictive measures affecting those who are unvaccinated. https://www.pandata.org/allrisk-zerobenefit/

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de Gezondheidsraad om “het Covid-19 vaccin van BioNTech/Pfizer beschikbaar te stellen voor alle adolescenten van 12 tot en met 17 jaar die daarvan zelf gebruik wensen te maken”. Een dag later nam de minister van VWS dit advies over. Dat was een historisch besluit: nooit eerder zijn kinderen in Nederland gevaccineerd “voor een ander”. Het advies van de Gezondheidsraad en het besluit van de minister roepen veel vragen en discussie op. Bij ons, bij ouders en bij tieners. Daarom hebben wij een brochure samengesteld met onafhankelijke informatie. Hopelijk draagt het bij aan een afgewogen besluitvorming in de huiselijke kring. Neem bovenal geen overhaaste beslissing over wel of niet vaccineren. Je hebt maar één lichaam, en daar moet je nog tientallen jaren mee verder. Vertrouw op het aloude voorzorgsprincipe. Ofwel: bij twijfel (nog) niet doen. Gok niet met je gezondheid. Bescherm jezelf met informatie. Lees hier de 10 redenen om jezelf de prik, voorlopig, te besparen. Deze brochure is gebaseerd op de inzichten zoals we die nu kennen en die ook door vele internationale experts worden gedragen. We verwelkomen inbreng en reflecties vanuit het wetenschappelijke en medische domein om onze bijdrage te versterken en/of bij te stellen. Bestuur van het Artsen Covid Collectief 9 juli, 2021

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