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Pharmac eyes expansion of free flu jab for children

Free flu vaccine for children

Associate Health Minister David Seymour has backed a new proposal from Pharmac that would expand New Zealand’s vaccine programme, including offering free flu jabs to children aged between six months and five years from 2027.

The proposal would also lock in continued supply agreements for 17 vaccines and a diagnostic test, while introducing new vaccine brands aimed at improving protection for older adults and vulnerable groups.



Around 260,000 extra children could become eligible for funded flu jabs under the changes, with more than 1.5 million people expected to receive vaccines covered by the proposal in its first year. Pharmac is now seeking public and clinical feedback before making a final decision, with the proposed rollout beginning from April and July 2027 depending on the vaccine type.

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17 COMMENTS

  1. Disgusting let the kids get natural immunity.
    I will never vote for him although i do like some of his other policies.
    He is in the pocket of big pharma.

  2. How many people under the age of 25 have been seriously impacted by flu?
    What the heck happened to natural immunity – that we are becoming a seriously unhealthy nation?!

    If youth have suffered from flu, what have been their other co-morbidities/ailments that have reduced their natural immune response?

    And, is the flu jab a vaccine ora “vaccine” (mRNA)?

    Just asking.

    • Time has passed asking.
      We are not asking anymore.
      Thej are just too stupid to realize.
      And who t f is david seynomore?

  3. More people refusing vaxx poison fullstop, so the credulous sheeple have to make up the profit shortfall.

  4. No….just No. Who’d trust a health system that’s been hacked six ways before Saturday to ‘vaccinate’ (ahem) anything with a pulse?

  5. This is because the number of people taking the jabs is declining. I was at a doctors surgery the other day and heard them discussing this. So how do the vaccine company’s keep making money? Offer to another group of people.

    What a disgrace. Hard to have confidence in the system. Unfortunately we need to occasionally seek help from this system. It scares me.

  6. Pharmacies via the Pharmacy Council have been lobbying for a bigger slice of the healthcare pie for a long time.

    Pharmacists agreed to control drugs on behalf of central govt despite doctors producing scrip for those drugs.

    These are your healthcare gate keepers now. To do big pharma bidding when doctors are replaced by AI.

  7. Who in their right mind would trust these creeps anymore? I know there will be idiots who will go along with this but seriously? Just big pharma’s lapdogs.

  8. Remember during covid, getting it wasn’t enough, you still had to get the shot even though natural immunity is and has always been far superior, where were all the experts, that knew this, bloomfield , baker etc, frightened to say a word, all cowards.
    Got a call from my doctors nurse, do you want the flu jab, no, what about your wife, no, can you ask her, no she doesn’t want it.

  9. I would like to leave a like to many of the comments made on here but I don’t want to make a statement about it, can you add the facility in please ?

  10. Has Seymour been spending time with Kill Gates, the world’s leading genocidal maniac.
    Obviously Seymour is either brain dead as to the dangers of these jabs or he wants to thin out the Kiwi population.
    Probably the latter.

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