Senator Malcolm Roberts – Senate Community Affairs – Questions the TGA
Senator Malcolm Roberts questions the TGA on the current vaccines
Reference points in this article (Q) = Question, (A) = Answer, (R) = Response
Senator Malcolm Roberts – One Nation
Professor Paul Kelly – (Chief Medical Officer)
John Skerrit – Deputy security Health Products Regulations and Head of the TGA
An absolute must watch as Senator Malcom Roberts hits the TGA with some hard questions regarding the current vaccines on roll-out as part the the States Mandate program.
Below are some of the questions ask during the hearing;
Senator Roberts (Q) – “What is the risk of being infected by a vaccinated person who have COVID, compared with an Unvaccinated person with COVID?”
Professor Kelly (A) – “Well its lower. I’m not sure I can give you an exact amount. I think professor Murphy earlier talked about the issue and also Senator Colbeck about the issue of transmission and how the vaccine affects that. We are getting more information and it seams like there is a definite influence on transmission, decreasing transmission, somewhere between 30 – 60% less likely.”
Senator Roberts (Q) – “Can you guarantee Australians that all the vaccines you have obtained are 100% safe?”
Professor Kelly (A) – “I cant say they are 100% safe senator, no.”
Senator Roberts (A) – “How many years will it be before we know the long term and intergenerational affects of these vaccines that only have provisional approval?”
Professor Kelly (A) – “I might ask my collage from the TGA to come up to answer that one.”
John Skerrit (A) – “Deputy security health products regulations and also responsible for the TGA. So, TGA unlike the US and the UK for example did a provisional approval of a vaccines as apposed to an emergence use authorization. The reason why it is a provisional approval is because we don’t have for example as Professor Kelly has just said, information on the duration of protection from these vaccines and we require that the companies to give us that sort of information in the coming years. I mean no one has those answers now, there are some encouraging results but as Professor Kelly has said it is likely that further vaccinations will be required. As part of the approval of any medicine or vaccine, the company together with us are involved in very extensive safety monitoring and we publish the results of the safety monitoring of that vaccine every week, including mild or 24 hour adverse events right through to those that might be much more serious and require hospitalization. And no medicine or vaccine is without adverse events but on balance the number of adverse events, especially serious adverse events of these vaccines are comparable low, the overwhelming majority of people vaccinated from them at worse suffer a 24 or 48 hour sore arm or tiredness, fatigue excreta.”
Senator Roberts (R/Q) – “So thank you, its a very comprehensive response. So to summarize, we don’t know yet, but your relying on the vaccine makers to feed you back information as time goes moves on?”
John Skerritt (A) – “No, the information on safety comes from a wide range of sources. Its comes from the states and territories, the GP vaccination agreements, the GP’s make an undertaking to also report any adverse events, the companies are legally bound to report adverse events not only in Australia but also globally. And of course we share, and in fact at 9 / 10pm tonight we will be having one of our regularly fortnightly video conferences, we share information on adverse events with all the major regulators globally, so, and the final source is from the medial scientific lecturer, so while the companies have this legal requirement to report, its only one of a number of imputes to understanding adverse events, and many of our adverse events reports come directly from doctors or even individuals, any individual can report an adverse event directly to us.”
In summary. They don’t have the data on long term affects and are relying on the reports from within Australia and around the world when taking a vaccine and what reactions they might have… YOU ARE THE DATA.
Senator Malcolm Roberts
Professor Paul Kelly – (Chief Medical Officer)
