The spread of Covid-19 among children in England is fuelling a recent rise in cases nationally and causing concern among some scientists that vaccines are being rolled out in schools too slowly.
Last month, Britain’s chief medical officers recommended that children aged 12 to 15 should be offered a Covid-19 vaccine to help reduce disruption to their education.
The recommendation to vaccinate those children was delayed after the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation declined to recommend broad vaccination of over-12s, saying the benefit to health was marginal and referring the decision to the chief medical officers. “We shouldn’t imagine that somehow we missed the boat on some dramatic effect that would have been beneficial to children or everyone else, because the vaccines just don’t very efficiently, particularly with the Delta variant.”
In Scotland, by contrast, where 46.5% of 12- to 15-year-olds have had a Covid-19 shot, walk-in vaccination facilities are available, meaning children are not reliant on schools to get access to shots.
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