NZ First leader Winston Peters says questions must be answered over the decision to give second Covid-19 vaccine doses to teenagers despite concerns raised by Government health advisers about myocarditis.
Speaking to RCR, Peters said medical experts had advised against giving a second dose to 12 to 17-year-olds, but the recommendation was not followed. “There was a far greater number than we thought. This should have all been in the Inquiry. And this is what stinks about this darn thing. We’re finding it out from the back door, so to speak, of the number that would have been caught by that. There were 400,000 teens in that age group,” he said.
Newly analysed vaccination data shows 311,257 teenagers, out of a cohort of 400,000, received a second dose in 2021, representing about 78% of the 12–17 age group.
“This stinks, because people are going to have shortened lives. They’re going to be sick when they shouldn’t be. It’s already happening to people,” Peters said, adding that the figures should have been examined by the Phase Two Covid-19 Royal Commission of Inquiry.
He also criticised what he described as a failure to hold those responsible for the vaccination decision to account.
“This is a horrible circumstance where the former Prime Minister … [and] later on Hipkins and the Minister of Health, are all responsible. Are they being held to account? No”.
Listen or watch RCR’s interview with Winston Peters.
Read the full story: The emails, expert advice and newly obtained vaccination data behind RCR’s investigation. Read more about the evidence and events surrounding the Covid-19 response in The People’s Position and The People’s Report, and see RCR’s updated myocarditis timeline.
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