Covid-19: Vaccinating children will help end pandemic, says minister

Offering 12-15 year olds covid vaccination is the way out of pandemic, vaccine deployment minister, Nadhim Zahawi, has said. The government confirmed on 13 September that it had accepted advice from four UK chief medical officers and in England children aged 12 to 15 should be offered one dose Pfizer BioNTech vaccine. Schools will deliver programme, with invitations for starting next week. The other countries were expected act similarly. Zahawi said CMOs’ recommendation was made “on basis benefits alone not adults or wider society.” The CMOs asked by ministers review vaccinating years after UK’s Joint Committee Vaccination Immunisation recommended, purely health grounds, against universal this age group.1 The agreed …