UK says will give COVID booster vaccines to over 50s
Boosters of the #coronavirus #vaccine can be offered to the over 50s this winter after approval by the government’s medical advisors.
Those who live in care homes, as well as frontline health and social care workers, will be offered an extra jab of the Pfizer/BioNTech version, which is also safe to be given alongside the usual annual flu jab.
Everyone in the clinically extremely vulnerable category, and anyone aged 16 to 65 in an at-risk group group for Covid-19, will also be eligible for an additional dose.
Around 30 million are expected to be administered, with the rollout expected to start within days, with England’s deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan telling a Downing Street briefing: “Double jabs can start now, subject to the availability of both products.
“The MHRA has looked at the data from the trials on giving flu in one arm and Covid in the other at the same time and the antibody response to both of those vaccines is not impaired by doing so, and the tolerability of doing that at the same time is also fine.
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