Pelas Crianças e Jovens na Pandemia

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This website intends to communicate legal actions and civic interventions related to the protection of the health of children and young people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal.

It was also created so that, in an informed and conscious way, everyone can join these Actions and their objectives, so the contents and framework of the actions are available here, which will help decision-making.

In this space you will find information on the Popular Action for precautionary procedure (23 August 2021), the Participation to the Attorney General's Office (PGR) (12 September 2022) and the Participation to the Regulatory Entity for the Media (ERC) (17 September 2022 ) and its developments since then.

These are actions taken by people who feel a responsibility to do what they can, for the common good, in a deep respect for different opinions, ideas and options.

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PARTICIPATIONS

PARTICIPATION TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE REPUBLIC - PGR

On September 12, 2022, the Movement for Children and Youth in the Pandemic filed a PARTICIPATION (DA 19499/22) with the Attorney General's Office regarding serious failures in security, information transparency, pharmacovigilance and regulation of medicines with regard to vaccines for COVID-19 in children and young people in Portugal.

Pharmacovigilance data in Portugal, hidden at national level, but available for consultation in the American adverse drug reactions database (CDC – VAERS), allowed us to detect serious signs of problems with COVID-19 vaccines in children, namely deficiencies in safety, in pharmacovigilance, and drug regulation by the National Medicines Authority.

These were the main reasons for an explicit participation in a document with 36 pages and annexes that present in detail a set of more than one hundred and a half reports of adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines in children under 18, anonymous, where notifications are found. shocks of serious adverse reactions and death, concealed by INFARMED and the Health Authorities. In addition to children, there are reports of some cases of death in young adults from myocarditis and anaphylactic shock.

Additionally, in the document addressed to the PGR, it is reported that Covid-19 vaccines are being administered to children without a prescription, being mentioned in the therapeutic indications of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC), approved by the EMA/European Commission, which “The use of this vaccine must follow the official recommendations”. It is questioned whether, in the event of an adverse reaction, the medical and legal responsibility lies with the pharmaceutical company, the doctor/nurse of the vaccination center or the Director-General of Health, Minister of Health, or the 1st Minister, in the capacity of responsible for the “ official recommendations”.

Also, because users and, in the case of children, their guardians or legal representatives, are not being provided with a duly informed and signed consent, namely with regard to the genetic and experimental nature of vaccines, to the type of authorization on the market that hold - conditional - on possible adverse reactions already known and their frequency, the absence of studies of long-term adverse reactions, absence of studies on effects on pregnancy, lactation, embryo and fetus, in immunocompromised patients, genotoxicity, and carcinogenicity.

The whistleblowers asked the Attorney General of the Republic to carry out an investigation to ascertain the factual truth, namely with the carrying out of evidence diligences that include auditing INFARMED's performance, uncovering the detailed lists of adverse drug reactions in children and young people vaccinated for Covid-19, independent audit of cases of death, serious adverse reactions and with sequelae in children and young people in Portugal, complete contracts for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines for use in children under 18 by the Portuguese state, audit of the monitoring of data from public health with regard to COVID-19 vaccines, namely hospitalization data, COVID-19 disease mortality and all-cause mortality, called on the health line 24 and INEM, since the beginning of the vaccination campaign for COVID -19 to date, by vaccination status and age-adjusted.

This participation in the Attorney General's Office takes advantage of the entire Presidency of the Council of Ministers, in particular: the Minister of Health, now resigning; and to all those who have performed administrative acts and/or procedures, within the scope of contracting for the acquisition and administration of Vaccines for Covid19, for Pediatric use, with Conditional Marketing Authorization, (that is, ALL those given in Portuguese territory). The present participation also takes advantage, in the exercise of current powers and attributions, of the head of the Directorate-General for Health; and to all employees, collaborators, doctors and nurses, who have participated in any procedures or administrative acts that have given rise to the acquisition and administration of Vaccines for Pediatric use, with Conditional Marketing Authorization, for Covid19 (that is, ALL the that are administered in Portuguese territory), as well as those who created and implemented plans of indirect coercion to the population for the administration of these vaccines. Participation also takes advantage of the head of INFARMED, IP, as well as all employees and collaborators, with direct action in the omission of the assessment of the existence of a pandemic emergency in children and the adequate pharmacovigilance of vaccines for Covid-19, in the territory Portuguese, and finally, take advantage of this participation to all others who, within the scope of the investigation, will be responsible for investigating the matter of this participation, especially in the absence of informed consent on the part of family members and children who have suffered injuries and damage from taking these vaccines.

See Participation in the PGR and List of Adverse Effects in Portugal in DOCUMENTS and OPINIONS

PARTICIPATION TO THE SOCIAL COMMUNICATION REGULATORY ENTITY - ERC

On September 17, 2022, the Movement for Children and Youth in the Pandemic, filed a participation (Process n.º 500.10.01/2022/284) for the binding decision under art. 64 of law no. 53/2005, of 8 November – regarding the lack of journalistic rigor with a strong impact on public opinion.

The ERC is a legal person governed by public law, with the nature of an independent administrative entity, which aims to ensure the functions that have been constitutionally assigned to it, independently defining the orientation of its activities, without being subject to any guidelines or guidelines by the political power. We warn that the national press refers to vaccines for Covid19 as “approved vaccines”, uninterruptedly and without any inspection being carried out.

However, there are no “approved vaccines” and “non-approved vaccines” (there are no “approved drugs” and “non-approved drugs”).

This terminology misleads the public, since it does not exist and cannot be brought back to the pharmaceutical universe.

Thus, we request that the following entities and the journalists who collaborate with them, be bound to use the appropriate terminology when referring to COVID-19 Vaccines, ceasing to use “approved vaccines” and starting to use “vaccines with conditional authorization”, coming It is also made public to rectify the error perpetuated since the beginning of vaccination, in order to fulfill the public interest, with impartiality, transparency and journalistic rigor, in the wake of Democratic Constitutionality and the Rule of Law.

See ERC Participation in DOCUMENTS and OPINIONS

Last Update (21 June 2022)

POPULARACTION

SUMMARY OF POPULAR ACTION

On August 13, 2021, the popular precautionary procedure no. conditional, whose safety and efficacy has not yet been duly proven without an emergency for this age group.

The unprecedented number of adverse reactions to vaccines for Covid-19, evidenced by the main pharmacovigilance systems (Portuguese, European, American, British, WHO), including serious adverse reactions and deaths, have been systematically undervalued by health and communication authorities. society, and we aim to protect children from these unnecessary risks.

We considered this process extremely important for the country, as we believed in the separation of powers and in the value of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. Thus, its submission, to what we understood at the time to be, the impartial scrutiny of the Courts, would make it possible to clarify the population about the legality of this measure, its necessity, and also, about the balance between the private interests of pharmaceutical companies and the public interests in the presence of . These doubts are legitimate given the high amount spent by the state on the acquisition of vaccines and antivirals for Covid-19, all of which are conditional authorization, and without the safety and efficacy being duly proven and the quality assured (from the production cycle to the product effectiveness).

Now, when the preliminary injunction was filed with the Lisbon Administrative Court for the provisional suspension of the vaccination of children against Covid-19, after hearing the Public Prosecutor's Office who spoke in less than 4 hours, the judge dismissed outright, having declared that the author was an illegitimate party. to bring a class action for the diffuse interest of children's public health and that the claim was unfounded. From the evidence offered, the court made a “clean slate”.

The appeal went to the Central Administrative Court of the South, which, after a few months, ruled that the action was useless. It was useless because “all children would be vaccinated”, even if some were not. All, even if some don't.

But, as a result of a new appeal, the Supreme Administrative Court decides that the supervening uselessness of the action could not be declared, as there were children to be vaccinated - a new hope emerged!

So, the still unanalyzed case went again to the Central Administrative Court of the South, which once again upheld the 1st sentence of the Lisbon Circle Court – the plaintiff was not a legitimate part of the class action and her claim was unfounded, as there is no danger of harm from these vaccines.

Almost a year has passed since the beginning of the process, a new appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court. An appeal to you to carefully observe our request for the suspension of the vaccine for children and young people in Portugal, so that we do not create more damage to the health of these human beings who count on compliance by adults who have sworn to comply with the Portuguese Constitution. Because if nothing is done, soon they will want to vaccinate babies from 6 months, the future of our country.

As a period of 10 months has elapsed since the beginning of vaccination for children over 11 years of age, and 6 months for children aged 5-11 years, the conviction is firmed that this age group (children and young people) does not run life-threatening when coming into contact with the virus in question. But they could be in danger of being seriously injured (as already indicated in the reports attached to the aforementioned process) when being inoculated with a substance that is still in an experimental phase and does not prevent infection and transmission in a significant number of people, particularly with the emergence of variants, natural in this type of virus, and hence, strictly speaking, it cannot be called a "vaccine".

It was this word VACCINE, which led the population of parents or guardians of minors to believe that it would be a safe drug, as a VACCINE should actually be.

The importance and seriousness of this issue requires keeping in mind what Science says: there is no URGENCY in the prevention of Covid-19 with substances insufficiently tested in the body of children and young people.

We remain deeply committed! Together we are stronger, for a transparent future of true freedom for our Children!

(June 21, 2022)

Popular Action asks the State and Infarmed to temporarily suspend the vaccination of children and young people under 18 years old

This is an Administrative Popular Action in the form of a precautionary procedure, which requires the provisional suspension, throughout the national territory, for minors under 18 years of age, of the therapeutic indication and administration of Covid19 vaccines, who have conditional authorization to market.

The authors argue that:

There is no urgency for children, in the current pandemic context, to justify their vaccination (with a conditional authorization vaccine), since children, except for very rare exceptions, do not suffer from serious illness and do not die from Covid19 disease (from the beginning of the pandemic and until the end of July 2021, 4 children, with serious comorbidities, died in Portugal, as a result of Covid19, but without a medical-legal autopsy that could attest). weekly on the EMA website, so the risks and adverse reactions, which are only determinable in the short, medium and long term, are constantly updated. Regulation No. 507/2006/EC explains that the conditional marketing authorization, in which all Covid19 vaccines are found, presupposes that there is not enough data on their efficacy and safety. Pursuant to paragraph 1 of article 4 of the said Regulation, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use is responsible for granting a conditional marketing authorization for these vaccines, although the clinical data provided on the safety and efficacy of the medicinal product are incomplete. The effectiveness of vaccines is still under study and there is evidence of reduced effectiveness over time and the emergence of new, more resistant variants, even leading to the need for a 3rd dose to be considered. The vaccine does not contribute to solving the public health problem since the desired objective of preventing the spread of the virus and achieving herd immunity is not scientifically proven to be likely to occur, quite the contrary.

The authors present themselves to the Administrative Court of the Lisbon Circle as being in favor of vaccination of the population and the National Vaccination Plan as a determining factor for the protection of health, both public and of each individual belonging to society, repudiating, from now on, , that any negationist aspect or the prerogative of conspiracy theories can be attributed to them.

It is further reported that the authors are deeply imbued with the noble principles and purposes associated with the right of Popular Action, typical of developed, committed and civilized countries and citizens. The law assumes that those who resort to popular action are also exercising the rights conferred on them in a responsible and legitimate manner, as well as with a view to defending the “common good”.

(August 23, 2021)

Appeal to the Central Administrative Court of the South

Bearing in mind that:

The Administrative Court of Lisbon decided to reject the initial petition outright, that is, it also decided to accept the initiation of this urgent action, considering that the request would be manifestly unfounded, since it considered that vaccines have an authorization to introduction on the market, like other medicines; There is a manifest error in the judgment of the Court, since according to Infarmed – Autoridade Nacional do Medicina e Produtos de Saúde, IP, the EMA itself - European Medicines Agency and the Summary of Medicines Characteristics of all Covid19 Vaccines, claim that the marketing authorization is a conditional authorization; A conditional authorization is only allowed - Regulation No. The nature of a conditional authorization is determined by the fact that the efficacy and safety have not been duly proven - Regulation No. 507/2006/EC; to bring to the Court that children's health is in everyone's interest, as well as the administrative process that allowed a conditional authorization vaccine must be scrutinized by the Court, because it is also in everyone's interest;

THE SOUTH CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL WAS REQUESTED that the initial petition for the subpoena for the adoption by the Administration of a conduct, for violation and well-founded fear of violation of national administrative law and European Union law, demanding the State and Infarmed - National Authority for Medicines and Health Products, IP, to adopt the necessary measures for the provisional suspension of the therapeutic indication and administration of Covid-19 vaccines, which have conditional marketing authorization, throughout the national territory, to minors under 18 years, BE ADMITTED only in this way affirming the principle of effective judicial protection and the rule of law and democratic legality.

It also happens that, in view of the dismissal of the subpoena, adverse reactions and serious adverse reactions have already been reported in Portugal, in children up to 17 years of age, namely cases of myocarditis and multisystem inflammatory syndrome, demonstrating that there is an effective risk of administering these vaccines with authorization conditional on minors under 18.

(September 7, 2021)

The Judgment of the Central Administrative Court of the South of December 16, 2021

On December 16, a ruling by three judges of the Central Administrative Court of the South decreed the extinction of this Popular Action.

It was considered that there was supervening uselessness of the dispute, or that it was no longer worth it, given that “the result that the party sought to obtain with the interposition of the present measure (suspension of the therapeutic indication of Covid19 vaccines for minors between 12 and 17 years old) was impaired, a since the one who was the respective target audience has already been fully vaccinated (this without prejudice to greater or lesser adherence to the initiative, since vaccination is not mandatory.” This incongruous decision was taken despite, as mentioned in the same Judgment , the present injunction aims to “provisionally suspend the therapeutic indications to persons under 18 years of age, of COVID19 vaccines, which have a conditional marketing authorization, throughout the national territory”.

When the injunction was filed, on August 23, it had only been granted by the European Medicines Agency, conditional authorization for Covid19 vaccines for people over 11 years old.

More than three months of waiting for the Court to rule on the present injunction, despite its urgent nature, gave time for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), on 25 November, to decide to recommend the extension of this conditional authorization to Covid19 vaccines in Europe to children aged 5 to 11 years.

Given the evidence that political pressure, namely the advance purchase of pediatric vaccines announced by the Portuguese government, would condition the assessment of national experts from the Covid-19 Technical Vaccination Commission and the Directorate-General for Health in order to issue a recommendation favorable to universal vaccination of children aged 5-11 in Portugal, this information was delivered to this same Central Administrative Court of the South in the form of a supervening pleading on 30 November. The Court cannot therefore allege ignorance of the imminence of vaccination for children aged 5 to 11 years, which began on December 17 in mainland Portugal, as is a well-known public fact.

Information will soon be given on the next steps they will take towards appealing this incomprehensible decision.

(December 16, 2021)

Appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court

Taking into account the incomprehensible decision of the Central Administrative Court of the South on December 16, 2021 to decree the extinction of the instance of this Popular Action due to the existence of “supervening uselessness of the dispute”, an appeal for review was filed with the Supreme Administrative Court of Justice, within of the period granted.

Judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court of 7 April 2022

Three months after the appeal was filed, on April 7, 2022, a ruling by three judges of the Supreme Administrative Court decrees that at the date of the appealed judgment of the Southern Central Administrative Court “there was no uselessness, and to this date the action more useful than ever”.

The judgment under appeal had wrongly considered that it was intended “to obtain the provisional suspension of the therapeutic indication of covid 19 vaccines for minors between 12 and 17 years of age and, since they had already been vaccinated between August 28 and 29, 2021 (1 2nd dose) and September 18 and 19 of the same year (2nd dose), the intended result was jeopardized with the granting of the injunction by the one who constituted the "target audience" was already fully vaccinated" and therefore determined the extinction of the instance of this Popular Action.

The Supreme Administrative Court now determines in an 8-page judgment, that this understanding is not acceptable: “Effectively, with the precautionary process aimed at suspending the therapeutic indication of covid 19 vaccines to all persons under 18 years of age, it can never be considered that it is incapable of producing useful effects on account of the fact that a group included therein has already been given two doses of those vaccines. In addition to the fact that it has not been demonstrated that all the minors who make up this group have already received two doses of the vaccine, nor that they cannot be subjected to later doses, it is clear that the required suspension of effectiveness is not only aimed at to this age group but to all those under 18 years of age and that, over time, there will be children who have not yet been vaccinated who will be included in that pediatric group”.

The Supreme Administrative Court concludes as follows: “For the foregoing, they agree to grant the appeal, revoking the appealed decision and ordering the write-off of the case to TCA-Sul”.

(April 7, 2022)

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COMMONQUESTIONS

What is a Popular Action?

History - Popular action dates back to ancient Roman law, having been consecrated, for the first time, in a legal text, in Belgium in 1836, and constitutes an instrument for exercising citizenship, which serves to supervise the performance of leaders, servants, agents and public representatives.
What is the main intention of this Popular Action?

This popular action intends that Infarmed suspend the therapeutic indication of vaccines for COVID 19 with conditional marketing authorization for children under 18 years old, throughout the national territory, and that the State, accordingly, suspend their administration in this group. age.
What are the main arguments of this Popular Action?

Children, with very few exceptions, do not suffer from serious illness due to COVID-19, so there is no emergency to vaccinate children, which justifies a conditional authorization for its use in this age group. Conditional authorization, by definition, presupposes the absence of sufficient data to assess the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Vaccines for COVID-19 do not prevent infection or transmissibility, and there is no scientific evidence that proves the possibility of achieving herd immunity, quite the contrary.
What implications and costs can arise if I join this Popular Action?

To request the Central Administrative Court of Lisbon to consider this People's Action, showing the Court that children's health is in everyone's interest, as well as in the interest of all the administrative process that allowed vaccines with marketing authorization conditional condition is verified by the Court, through an email request (draft available in "How can I join this Popular Action?) there are no costs and no implications.
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