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BBC: “ Scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds”. Link below. UK’s vaccine top advisory body (that refused to recommend the vaccine for 12-15 a

BBC: “ Scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds”. Link below. UK’s vaccine top advisory body (that refused to recommend the vaccine for 12-15 age bracket) membership: Professor Andrew Pollard, Chair (University of Oxford) Professor Lim Wei Shen, Chair COVID-19 immunisation (Nottingham University Hospitals) Professor Anthony Harnden, Deputy Chair (University of Oxford) Dr Kevin Brown (Public Health England) Dr Rebecca Cordery (Public Health England) Dr Maggie Wearmouth (East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust) Professor Matt Keeling (University of Warwick) Alison Lawrence (lay member) Professor Robert Read (Southampton General Hospital) Professor Anthony Scott (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Professor Adam Finn (University of Bristol) Dr Fiona van der Klis (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands) Professor Maarten Postma (University of Groningen) Professor Simon Kroll (Imperial College London) Dr Martin Williams (University Hospitals Bristol) Professor Jeremy Brown (University College London Hospitals) Approved government media: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58438669 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58438669 What was the risk and is it approved for discussion if the absolute top vaccine experts declined to recommend it and a government funded news media, BBC, reported on that? Is this too fringe to talk about? Is BBC anti-vaxx now? Are these professors anti-vaxxers?

6510 5y ago
I'm surprised by the ever growing HN trend of not reading articles before commenting. This time the comments fail to guess what the article is about spectacularly. Tell me again how the public should not get involved in the debate but this time give the right example and do it silently?
- inter_netuser 5y ago
  - 6510 5y ago
iso1631 5y ago
"Approved government media" That's not what the BBC is
- inter_netuser 5y ago
  It's literally the national broadcaster, and governed by the culture secretary. How much more government approval do you need? The Queen to notarize personally every utterance, noise and word they say/write? It's literally as close to that as one can get, has a Royal Charter too. Next would be the queen herself broadcasting live 24/7/365, might be hard to get that much juice out of a 90 year old. Maybe one day.
  - iso1631 5y ago
    No, government broadcaster would be the government broadcasting directly from a government broadcast centre over other platforms This is the youtube outlet for it https://www.youtube.com/user/number10gov https://www.youtube.com/user/number10gov Are you American by any chance? Is CBS a government mouthpiece because they carry actual government broadcasts like presidential addresses and have some oversight from a government agency (FCC)?
    - inter_netuser 5y ago
      CBS is a 100% private corporation. BBC is 100% government owned. You are basically saying there is no difference between the Empire State Building and the White House.

6510 5y ago

I'm surprised by the ever growing HN trend of not reading articles before commenting. This time the comments fail to guess what the article is about spectacularly. Tell me again how the public should not get involved in the debate but this time give the right example and do it silently?

inter_netuser 5y ago
- 6510 5y ago

iso1631 5y ago

"Approved government media" That's not what the BBC is

inter_netuser 5y ago
It's literally the national broadcaster, and governed by the culture secretary. How much more government approval do you need? The Queen to notarize personally every utterance, noise and word they say/write? It's literally as close to that as one can get, has a Royal Charter too. Next would be the queen herself broadcasting live 24/7/365, might be hard to get that much juice out of a 90 year old. Maybe one day.
- iso1631 5y ago
  No, government broadcaster would be the government broadcasting directly from a government broadcast centre over other platforms This is the youtube outlet for it https://www.youtube.com/user/number10gov https://www.youtube.com/user/number10gov Are you American by any chance? Is CBS a government mouthpiece because they carry actual government broadcasts like presidential addresses and have some oversight from a government agency (FCC)?
  - inter_netuser 5y ago
    CBS is a 100% private corporation. BBC is 100% government owned. You are basically saying there is no difference between the Empire State Building and the White House.