Prognosis
U.K. Covid Panel Declines to Back Vaccines for Adolescents
- Advisory group seeks input from chief medical officers
- U.K. decision out of step with the U.S. and most of the EU
Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg
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A U.K. government advisory panel declined to recommend rolling out Covid-19 shots to all adolescents, instead passing the decision to Britain’s chief medical officers.
While the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said Friday that the benefit of vaccination for healthy 12-to-15-year-olds was “marginally greater” than the potential known harms, it advised the government to ask the U.K.’s four chief medical officers to weigh in on the decision, taking into account the impact on schools and young people’s education.