UKMFA FOI to MHRA re COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Surveillance and Monitoring Criteria

31/10/23

Following the unsatisfactory response to our previous FOI to the MHRA on a possible link between Scottish Mortality data and Cardiac Deaths and the Covid vaccine rollout, we have sent a further FOI request asking for further data relating to:

• Specific criteria set re COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring which would trigger either a formal epidemiological study or, re deaths reported to Yellow Card, would prompt them to call a halt to the COVID-19 rollout.
• Documents/discussions referring to rapid cycle analysis or targeted active monitoring in the context of COVID-19 safety monitoring.
• Documents/discussions relied upon to decide how many reported fatal outcomes were caused by a COVID-19 vaccine.

Open Letters and FOI Requests to RCOG, RCM and UKHSA re Safety Concerns of COVID-19 Vaccines in Pregnancy

13/11/22 UPDATED 15/05/23

Several UKMFA doctors have joined over 60 doctors in signing this open letter to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Midwives and UK Health Security Agency, calling for an urgent review of the evidence around the safety of COVID-19 vaccine use in pregnancy.

We argue that current official advice "is not grounded in robust data based on ethically conducted research" and evidence multiple serious safety signals and research data that should prompt an immediate halt to the rollout to pregnant women pending a full, independent safety analysis.

On 23/02/23 we sent a follow-up Appeal Letter, with a number of FOI Requests, to the RCOG expressing our dismay at the lack of response from a letter sent in December 2022 to RCOG President Dr Ranee Thakar, and that the RCOG's latest position statement on COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy had not taken any of our concerns into account.  

FOI Request to NPEU re Key Information on COVID-19 in Pregnancy Graphic

07/07/22 UPDATED 17/04/23

UKMFA sent an Freedom of Information Request to Prof Jenny Kurinczuk, head of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), to ask for data supporting their graphic entitled “Key Information on COVID-19 in Pregnancy” which presents selected data with the apparent purpose to convey two main messages (COVID-19 is dangerous for pregnant women and their babies and COVID-19 vaccines reduce this risk) with the aim of recommending COVID-19 vaccination to pregnant women.

UKMFA FOI Request to MHRA re Scottish Excess Mortality and Cardiac Deaths and Temporal Association with COVID-19 vaccinations

01/07/22 UPDATED 04/11/22

UKMFA sent an FOI request to Dame June Raine, Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), asking for to any and all documents or minutes of meetings analysing Scottish excess all-cause mortality data, as well as Scottish data regarding ambulance callouts for cardiac events in young people and their temporal associations with COVID-19 vaccinations.

We stated our serious concern that the temporal association between all-cause mortality and also cardiac morbidity and COVID-19 vaccination in different age groups is striking und undeniable.