Signatories: Matt Shelton, Anne O’Reilly, Anna Goodwin, Paul Butler, Caroline Wheeler, Tracy Chandler, Tracy Chapman, Tessa Jones, Ulrich Doering, Aida Hasbun, Adeline Lee, Cindy De Villiers, Damian Wojcik, Rob Maunsell, Wellington Tan, Simon Thornley, Fred M. Timmermans, Rene de Monchy, Mike Godfrey, Samantha Bailey, Emanuel E. Garcia, William J Reeder, Graham H. Evans, Tihomir Djordjic, Matthius Seidel, Robin Kelly, Anna Harvey, Kate Armstrong, and Anonymous Doctors (don’t want their names public)
“We write formally to express our shared concern that:
1. A new prescription only medicine with s23(1) provisional approval, which legally can only be for the treatment of a limited number of patients, is being promoted for the entire adult population of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
2. Medsafe asked 58 questions, but the answers for most of these are not due until March to July 2021.
3. The clinical trials will not be completed until 2023.
4. Nobody currently knows how safe or effective this novel mRNA technology is in the medium to long term, but highly credible medical experts around the world, and even some vaccine developers themselves, are predicting problems and raising urgent red-flag concerns…
9. The signatories note that even the promoters of the vaccine do not claim that it prevents transmission and that public representations that the vaccine is effective for this purpose are misleading…"