Boris Johnson prepares to overrule JCVI and offer vaccinations to all teenagers
All teenagers could be cleared to receive vaccinations against coronavirus within days, after ministers ordered a review that could override the government’s immunisation experts who have refused to recommend jabs for healthy 12 to 15-year-olds.
The chief medical officers of the four nations of the UK including England’s Prof Chris Whitty are expected to report as early as next week on whether the educational and social damage of the pandemic to teens should tip the balance in favour of vaccination.
With public health experts calling for a swift programme of injections to see off a feared spike in cases as children return to classrooms, the NHS and schools have been told to be ready for mass vaccinations to start as soon as the judgement of the chief medical officers is delivered.
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