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24 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
For more than a year, Britain has faced one ethical dilemma after another.

❓ Is it okay to immunise children for the benefit of adults?

#coronavirus

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Ministers face one of the most controversial questions of all. Should children be vaccinated?

#coronavirus has largely spared children causing few fatalities or severe cases across the population.

Yet health officials are contemplating whether it could be necessary and ethical
If trials, now ongoing, show the jabs are safe and effective then the programme could be rolled out as soon as this August.

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One of the scientists involved in the research says until there are results from trials - the case for vaccinating children wouldn't be based on the threat infection poses to them.

It would be an attempt to reduce their role in transmitting the virus

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