Submitted on Sunday 6th June 2021
Rejected on Wednesday 16th June 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop the vaccination of children until critical workers overseas are vaccinated.
The Government should donate the vaccines planned for use by British children (12-17) to the global COVAX foundation or some similar plan. We should only vaccinate low-risk children here once higher-risk people in less developed countries (medical workers, the elderly, etc.) have been vaccinated.
It is immoral to use vaccines here to slightly reduce the change of transmission when abroad the same vaccines would have a far greater effect, saving easily 10x the lives they would if deployed here. As a wealthy, developed nation, which has already got plans and means to vaccinate its entire adult population, it is immoral and irresponsible to prioritise vaccinating children over vaccinating health workers and the elderly overseas.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Once priority groups in the UK are vaccinated redirect Covid-19 vaccines abroad: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/572802
Coordinate with the EU to distribute Covid vaccines to priority groups in Europe: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/572830
Decisions about how vaccination programmes in other countries prioritise individuals for vaccination is a matter for individual national governments, not the UK Government or House of Commons.
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