Top UK medical officials have ruled that UK children aged 12 to 15 should be able to be vaccinated against Covid-19, despite criticism of the idea.
English medical director Chris Whitty said Monday that childhood vaccination will be one “Useful tool to reduce interruption” in schools.
Children will be eligible at this time for a dose of Pfizer’s Covf-19 vaccine and imminent deployments are expected to occur.
The decision on whether to vaccinate children was postponed to chief physicians after the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Vaccinations (JCVI) refused to advise under-16s to be vaccinated earlier this month.
In its decision, the JCVI stated so “The health benefits of vaccination are marginally greater than the possible known harms … the benefit margin is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy children 12 to 15 years of age at this time.”
However, the government has constantly tried to implement Covid-19 vaccination for children.
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, AstraZeneca’s vaccine designer, has publicly opposed vaccinating children and giving most British booster shots, arguing that leftover doses of vaccine should be sent to countries in need. fight the virus worldwide.
In July, Professor Gilbert told La Repubblica: “If you can’t prevent vaccination transmission and children aren’t at risk for serious illness, hospitalization, or death, which the vast majority of children aren’t, you have to ask yourself,‘ What benefits would vaccination have? of children? ‘”
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Last week, School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said children would be vaccinated at school if the scheme was approved. “Faster and more efficient” and add that parental permission would do so “Always searched”.
Covid-19 vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi, however, has said children could still be vaccinated if their parents opposed the idea. “What you’re essentially doing is making sure that doctors talk about it with the parents, with the teen, and if they think they can make a competent decision, that decision will go in favor of what the teen decides to do.” Zahawi told Times Radio this month, confirming that children could cancel their parents if they are “Competent to make that decision.”
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