This is not correct. By our count, children in the UK would be offered a maximum of 40 doses by the age of 17.
Kate Shemirani, a former nurse and campaigner against vaccines, has made false claims about vaccines in a Facebook post. We’ve checked several false claims about the Covid-19 vaccines by Ms Shemirani before.
These claims are part of a wider problem with misinformation about vaccines. Bad information about vaccines could influence the decisions people make about their health. .
Uptake rates of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine dropped sharply in the UK following now-discredited research linking the jab to autism in children, and this may have been responsible for outbreaks of measles in children ever since. Similarly, false claims about Covid-19 vaccines may have contributed to reduced uptake in certain communities.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)–which licences vaccines for use in the UK–told Full Fact that no vaccine would be approved in the UK unless it met stringent standards for safety, quality and effectiveness.
Ms Shemirani made four specific claims in the post, which are not true. Full Fact approached Ms Shemirani for comment via social media, but we have not received a response at the time of writing.
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