Last time we revealed how a single headline published in The Guardian that advocated for more vaccine use in the UK actually had very clear financial ties to Sanofi, Janssen, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. If you haven’t already, go back and read the first article as this will make much more sense if you do.

Sanofi, Janssen and the Gates Foundation have major financial interests in pushing more Covid-19 vaccines, and wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly what the paper and subsequent news stories recommended! So what happens if we turn our attention away from the actual study, and start to examine the conduits through which it arrived in the media?

Read on.

With the authors of the study which underpinned the article investigated, it’s time to turn our attention to the quotes used in The Guardian piece. The article sought comment from a number of UK academics, and broadly those comments bolstered the main thrust of the editorial: more vaccines, including for children, are a good thing.