The definition of COVID-19 fully vaccinated

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Dear Scottish Government,

As a Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA 2002) request please provide the currently recorded definition (or definitions) of “fully vaccinated" as it pertains to treatment with one of the so called “COVID-19 vaccines" e.g. BNT162b2, AZD1222, mRNA-1273, JNJ-78436735.

It is understood by the requester that there could be more than one definition as “fully vaccinated” may be function of age of the recipient and the nature of the genetic therapy e.g. individuals over 50 years of age may may not be defined as “fully vaccinated" unless they have received three doses of BNT162b2 or two doses of JNJ-78436735.

Thanks.

Yours faithfully,

J Grove

Scottish Government

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Dear Scottish Government,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Scottish Government's handling of my FOI request 'The definition of COVID-19 fully vaccinated'.

The Scottish Government are thanked for directing the requester to the legislation under The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021.

I believe that the Scottish Government has provided an inconsistent response with clear incongruence between the information in the legislation and the information on the Scottish Government's own website and on the NHSinform website.

The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021 7E (Interpretation of regulations 7A to 7D) states:

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—
(a)a person (“P”) has completed a course of doses if P has received the complete course of doses specified—
(i) in the summary of product characteristics approved as part of the marketing authorisation for the authorised vaccine, or
(ii) in the instructions for usage approved as part of the authorisation by the licensing authority on a temporary basis under regulation 174 (supply in response to spread of pathogenic agents etc.) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012(3) for the authorised vaccine,
(b)where a person (“P”) has received a dose of one authorised vaccine and a dose of a different authorised vaccine, P is deemed to have completed a course of doses of an authorised vaccine.

This implies that as soon as a first in class genetic therapy such as BNT162b2, AZD1222 or mRNA-1273 is approved for use under an Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) for a particular age group then this will be added to the “course" that must be “completed" in order to have COVID-19 certification (i.e. “a COVID-19 passport").

Given that another FOISA 2002 request to the Scottish Government for recorded evidence held to show that 2 doses of a “COVID-19 vaccine" reduces transmission of the virus has been met with a section 17(1) exemption notice then this implies that the only reason the Scottish National Party and The Green Party members of the Scottish Party voted for the introduction of “COVID-19 certification" was to coerce the population of Scotland into being medicated with EUA genetic therapies for which long term safety studies (in humans and preclinical species) are absent in order to treat a disease that has an average (median) age of death on or around the average age of mortality in Scotland.

The information in the legislation would imply that as of this point on time the “booster" dose of BNT162b2 would now be required to access certain hospitality venues and sporting events in Scotland for those individuals aged over 40 who are 6 months out from their “2nd jag” but confirmation of this would require clarification, this internal review should clarify this matter.

The link to the Test and Protect website of the Scottish Government is appreciated but the statement “supporting these close contacts to self-isolate, if they test positive or haven’t received both vaccine doses, so that they are less likely to transmit the virus to others” is bizarre in light of the FOISA 2002 section 17(1) exemption provided to request 202100236330 (Response 202100254458) identifying that the Scottish Government holds no information on papers/reports showing a reduction of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 after two doses of a “COVID-19 vaccine".

There is another key incongruence in the information provided in the Test and Protect information that is accessed by the link provided by the Scottish Government that forms the basis of this internal review. The Test and Protect website states “fully vaccinated means you have received both of your vaccine doses, with at least two weeks passing since your second dose” which is clearly at odds with The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021 7E (Interpretation of regulations 7A to 7D) and the line “(ii) in the instructions for usage approved as part of the authorisation by the licensing authority on a temporary basis under regulation 174 (supply in response to spread of pathogenic agents etc.) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012(3) for the authorised vaccine”. Once the UK medicines regulator the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approves a dosing regime for an “authorised vaccine” such as a “booster dose” then two doses of an “authorised vaccine" would not be regarded as being “fully vaccinated" and thus the information on the Test and Protect website would be obsolete, as it must surely be at this point in time.

In short the information on the Scottish Government’s own Test and Protect website contradicts the legislation established by the Scottish Government and this is a clear incongruity that must be resolved as part of this internal review.

The information on the NHSinform link is the same as that provided in the Test and Protect link. The NHSinform site states “You can get your COVID Status to use within Scotland if you’re over 18. You also need to be fully vaccinated. This means you’ve received your second dose of the Moderna, AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccine at least 2 weeks ago”.

As an internal review I want the Scottish Government to confirm that the definition of being “fully vaccinated" is that described in The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021 7E (Interpretation of regulations 7A to 7D) and ONLY the The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021 7E (Interpretation of regulations 7A to 7D). I want the Scottish Government to confirm that the information on being “fully vaccinated” on the Test & Protect and NHSinform websites is now out of date since the “booster doses" were authorised by the MHRA.

Thanks.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/th...

Yours faithfully,

J Grove

Scottish Government

Our Reference: 202100260614

Dear J Grove,

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Dear Scottish Government,

Thanks for letting me know that when the Scottish Government announces that there is to be a 4th jag to “maintain immunity” against Omicron when immunity wanes after 10 weeks (as the “experts” are saying will happen) that this has been well planned for within The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021 7E (Interpretation of regulations 7A to 7D) and that as long as the UK’s MHRA does not investigate risk stratification of novel first in class mRNA genetic therapies (see the latest pre-prints in the literature such as ‘Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex’ by Julia Hippisley-Cox et al) that the coercion of the Scottish population to take such novel and experimental genetic therapies is already embedded within the legislation for whenever the FM and DFM want to use it.

It is clear from this response that the Scottish Government already view three doses of an experimental genetic therapy as being “fully vaccinated" and that they are just waiting for the Overton window to shift before the third dose is rolled out to all age groups on the NHS App.

Yours faithfully,

J Grove

Scottish Government

Our Reference: 202100268315

Dear J Grove ,

Thank you for your correspondence sent on 28/12/2021. Your query will be
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