“COVID-19 vaccines are the best way to protect people from coronavirus and will save thousands of lives.” “These claims are false, dangerous and deeply irresponsible,” said a spokesman for Britain’s Department of Health & Social Care, when asked about Yeadon’s views. COVID-19 has already killed more than 2.6 million people worldwide. But many health experts and government officials worry that opinions like his fuel vaccine hesitancy – a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated – that could prolong the pandemic. Yeadon has said he personally doesn’t oppose the use of all vaccines. The anti-vaxxer movement has amplified Yeadon’s skeptical views about COVID-19 vaccines and tests, government-mandated lockdowns and the arc of the pandemic. In recent months, Yeadon (pronounced Yee-don) has emerged as an unlikely hero of the so-called anti-vaxxers, whose adherents question the safety of many vaccines, including for the coronavirus.
“These claims are false, dangerous and deeply irresponsible.” A spokesman for Britain’s Department of Health & Social Care The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first COVID-19 shot to be authorized for use in the European Union. He later co-founded a biotech firm that the Swiss drugmaker Novartis purchased for at least $325 million. The 60-year-old is a former vice president of Pfizer, where he spent 16 years as an allergy and respiratory researcher. What gave the debunked claim credibility was that one of the petition’s co-authors, Michael Yeadon, wasn’t just any scientist. In January, a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a non-profit organization, found that 13% of unvaccinated people in the United States had heard that “COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to cause infertility.” Within weeks, doctors and nurses in Britain began reporting that concerned women were asking them whether it was true, according to the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. Social media quickly spread exaggerated claims that COVID-19 jabs cause female infertility. Regulators weren’t swayed, either: Weeks later, the European Medicines Agency approved the European Union’s first COVID-19 shot, co-developed by Pfizer Inc. The document appeared on a German website on Dec.1. The petitioners made a bold demand: Halt COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials.Įven bolder was their argument for doing so: They speculated, without providing evidence, that the vaccines could cause infertility in women. Late last year, a semi-retired British scientist co-authored a petition to Europe’s medicines regulator.
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