A number of countries have imposed similar bans on boosters for healthy under-50s, a trend that has been linked by observers to safety concerns, though public authorities have not confirmed this. The U.K. will continue to offer the first two doses to over-16s.
The Government has also accepted JCVI advice that another round of Covid booster jabs should be dished out this autumn to the over-50s and other risk groups. The advisers have also called for senior citizens and those who are immunosuppressed to receive an extra booster dose this spring. These will be the seventh and eight jabs for thousands of Brits. The Mail has more.
Under the 2022 autumn Covid booster campaign which began in early September last year, over-50s, residents and staff at care homes for older adults and frontline health and social care workers are eligible for a jab.It comes as the FDA in the U.S. is set to recommend annual Covid boosters for Americans of all ages.
On top of these groups, five to 49 year-olds who are a clinical risk group, live with an immunosuppressed person or are carers have also been offered a booster - similar to that for the annual flu vaccine.
According to the latest data, published on January 15th, 64.5% of those aged 50 and over and 82.4% of those aged 75 and over have received their [autumn] jab.
In England, the closure of the autumn booster campaign and the first [spring] booster offer will be on February 12th.
The JCVI also advised that the booster third dose which became available in 2021, will no longer be offered to those aged between 16 and 49-years-old who are not in a clinical risk group, from February 12th, "as the transition continues away from a pandemic emergency response towards pandemic recovery".
Professor Wei Shen Lim, Chair of COVID-19 vaccination on the JCVI, said: "The COVID-19 vaccination programme continues to reduce severe disease across the population, while helping to protect the NHS.
"That is why we have advised planning for further booster vaccines for persons at higher risk of serious illness through an autumn booster programme later this year."
She added: "We will very shortly also provide final advice on a spring booster programme for those at greatest risk." ...
The NHS will continue to operate a smaller scale vaccine offer from mid-February onwards to ensure those eligible for first and second doses can still get their jabs, it said today.
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some head(s) in the FDA need to roll post haste, and then how about close the doors to that 3-letter agency....
let it die first, then the CDC, the FBI, the CIA, the EPA, the IRS, and so on and so forth...the democrats, the republicans - the parties of both of them, pretty much all of the effing federal gubment not behaving consistent with how they been vested.
Oh yeah, and for sure the DoD as well. what a bunch of dimwits they all are...
Now or never I reckon.
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I just don't undestand why they are not going after the medical mafia, the politicians, the Globalists etc.