Mother Wins Battle to Stop Son Having Covid Vaccine She Feared Could Kill Him

The mother of a disabled son with a rare heart condition has won a landmark case to prevent the state from injecting him with the COVID-19 vaccine she feared could kill him. The Telegraph has the story.

After a three-year court battle, the mother, who can only be named as Sarah, said she had endured a “Kafkaesque nightmare” to protect her son, Tom, who has severe learning difficulties as well as a range of life-threatening conditions.

Mr. Justice Hayden, sitting in the Court of Protection, has now ruled it is “no longer in Tom’s best interests to receive the jab” because the virus “landscape” had changed so much since the peak of the pandemic.

He made the ruling after an American Professor of Paediatrics said Tom was more likely to suffer heart complications – such as myocarditis and pericarditis – if given the mRNA vaccine.

But Sarah says the battle has eroded her trust in public organisations such as social services, doctors and the courts, and accused the Government of introducing a policy that ignores individual circumstances.

Tom’s conditions include a chromosome abnormality which causes severe learning difficulties, meaning he has the mental age of an 18-month-old child despite being 24.

His mother feared the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, which tells cells how to trigger an immune response to Covid, could cause an adverse reaction in his heart. So, she resisted doctors and social workers’ demands that he be injected for the “greater good of society”.

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