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In a quiet but historic reversal, the Australian government has officially updated its national immunization guidance to state that healthy individuals under 18 years old should not receive the COVID-19 injection, citing “potential harms.”
According to the government’s own website, “COVID-19 vaccine is not recommended for healthy infants, children or adolescents who do not have medical conditions that increase their risk of severe illness.”
The update cites the “extremely low” risk of severe illness in this age group and explicitly acknowledges that “the benefits of vaccination are not considered to outweigh the potential harms.”
The recommendation, published June 3, 2025, marks a stunning shift from earlier public health campaigns that heavily promoted COVID jabs for nearly all Australians, including children.
The guidance was issued via the Australian Immunisation Handbook, maintained by the Department of Health and Aged Care and advised by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) and other national health bodies.
This admission follows mounting international concern over adverse events tied to COVID shots, including myocarditis, pericarditis, and other complications observed in younger recipients.
The new policy does not apply to children with underlying medical conditions, who may still be considered at higher risk.
U.S. CDC data show 38,615 deaths have been linked to the COVID jab since 2020, but if fewer than 1% of adverse events are reported—as a 2010 HHS-funded Harvard analysis suggests—the real number could exceed 3.8 million.
Pfizer’s own data showed over 1,200 negative health outcomes associated with their mRNA COVID shot.
Australia’s updated guidance comes just days after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the COVID shot would also be removed from the CDC’s recommended schedule for healthy children and pregnant women, citing a “lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children.”
The near-simultaneous reversals by two Western governments underscore a growing international retreat from universal COVID vaccination, at least for so-called low-risk populations.
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Says a lot from the country with one of the most draconian restrictions of the ‘West’ (yes, I know they are in a different hemisphere). It was always about the money and nothing to do with public health at all.
EudraVigilance, which tracks reports of injuries and deaths following the experimental COVID vaccines was the agency responsible during the pandemic and the injuries and deaths in Europe. They actually did a better job reporting than VAERS who made the process difficult for GP’s to report and the slaughter was through the roof.
They merged both VAERS and EudraVigilance a couple of years ago into one BLOB entity to obscure the results. MSM did not report on EudraVigilance results in the first year after release of the jab. I’m assuming Australia would of been using the European data due to obvious ties. Most have not kept up with all of this and are completely in the dark. Unfortunately when you’re dead you can’t report so the cover up was successful.