Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children aged between 12 and 15 are not being recommended
(Picture: PA Wire)Schools could face a “lot of disruption” if Covid jabs aren’t approved for 12 to 15 year olds, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said.
Vaccinating school children could be given the green light as soon as next week as four scientific advisors will make a decision in days on whether the UK should vaccinate age 12 to 15 year olds.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) did not recommend the Covid-19 vaccination rollout for healthy 12 to 15 year olds. But Professor John Edmunds, a member of SAGE, issued a stark warning about schools facing chaos if plans to vaccinate children age 12 to 15 years old are rejected.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think we have to take into consideration the wider effect Covid might have on children and their education and developmental achievements.
“In the UK now it’s difficult to say how many children haven’t been infected but it’s probably about half of them, that’s about six million children, so that’s a long way to go if we allow infection just to run through the population, that’s a lot of children who will be infected and that will be a lot of disruption to schools in the coming months.”
