Director General Of The Danish Health Authority Admits Giving Covid Jab To Kids Was "A Mistake"
Søren Brostrøm is a Danish physician-scientist specializing in obstetrics and gynaecology, who serves as the current Director General of the Danish Health Authority who admits giving Covid jab to kids was "a mistake", in hindsight .
Danish kids (ages 12 till 15) were told to get jabbed late last year by Søren Brostrøm. Many parents complied, thinking he knew the best.
Now Søren Brostrøm has outright admitted it was mistake - although he covers himself by saying "well NOW that we know the Covid jab does not protect against infection, it was a mistake."
Article translated online from Danish to English below:
In hindsight, we did not get much out of vaccinating the children, Brostrøm admits
June 22 2022, 22:40
by Emilie Haaber Lynggaard
We have become wiser, and we would not do the same today, says Søren Brostrøm.
With the knowledge we have today, we did not get much out of having children vaccinated against coronavirus last year.
This is acknowledged by the director of the National Board of Health, Søren Brostrøm, on Wednesday, where the future corona strategy has been presented.
From mid-July last year, the first 12-15-year-old children in Denmark were invited to receive a vaccine against coronavirus. In November, the 5-11-year-olds were also recommended to be vaccinated against the virus.
At the time, it was said that the vaccinations were not predominantly for the children's own sake, but to ensure epidemic control in Denmark.
When Søren Brostrøm hosted 'Go' evening Live 'on TV 2 on Wednesday night, he was asked if it was a mistake to vaccinate children.
- With what we know today: yes. With what we knew then: no, was the answer.
At the press conference earlier on Wednesday, Søren Brostrøm also said that it was clear in the spring that the vaccines were not particularly preventive, but rather prevented serious illness, and that we must therefore now "take the learning further":
- In retrospect, we did not get much out of the expansion of the vaccination program for children when it comes to epidemic control. But it is seen in hindsight.
An "unjustified hard pressure on the parents"
Christine Stabell Benn, clinical professor at the University of Southern Denmark, has long been critical of the coronary vaccination of children. She had no doubt that the recommendation was unnecessary, already when Denmark went it alone and recommended them to the age group 12-15 years last summer.
- We had some vaccines with a very unknown side effect profile, and at the same time we had some children who had nothing to gain by being vaccinated, she says to TV 2.
As the National Board of Health itself has expressed that there were many uncertainties about whether it was the right decision, she also believes that the board should have adjusted the strength of their campaign. She urges the board to reconsider whether there was really a reason to "put so much pressure on the parents" to get the children vaccinated:
- In addition, children were made responsible for the health of their parents and grandparents. That, I think, is unreasonable, says Christine Stabell Benn and continues:
- I think there are a lot of parents left out there who say, "What was this all about?" There are many parents who have really struggled to get their children dragged down to the vaccination center, but to what use?
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A lack of confidence
In Dr. Bolette Friderichsen's practice, she met many parents who did not understand that their child "should take one for the team" and be vaccinated.
Now, almost a year after the recommendations on vaccines for children, she is particularly concerned that the parents of almost 60 percent of the children in the age groups in question declined the authorities' offer.
- One must imagine that the 60 percent have been in a big dilemma. And I may be worried about whether the families have now had a lack of trust in the authorities, which we otherwise in Denmark have a high degree of trust in, says Bolette Friderichsen, who is also chairman of the Danish Society for General Medicine, to TV 2.
She believes that the plan must therefore also include in the plan that we can achieve natural immunity through infection, because that kind of immunity "lasts longer" and involves a low risk for healthy children.
Message from Brostrøm
Allan Randrup Thomsen, professor of experimental virology at the University of Copenhagen, supports the new announcement from the National Board of Health and says that "it probably did not make much sense" to let the youngest be vaccinated, with the knowledge we have today.
- But what we must hold on to is that there has been no damage from it. It was more of a misinterpretation of the situation at the time, which we among professionals will discuss for a long time, he says to TV 2.
In 'Go' aften Live ', Søren Brostrøm came with a message to the parents who have let their children get the corona vaccine.
- I want to look all parents of children who have vaccinated their child in the eye and say: "You did the right thing and thank you for listening". But at the same time - and this is the important thing to maintain confidence - I will admit and say that we have become wiser and we would not do the same today. And we will not do that in the future either, said Brostrøm.
At Wednesday's press conference, it was revealed that only Danes over the age of 50 and particularly vulnerable are invited to a fourth coronation.
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