It has been announced that JCVI has recommended, or likely to recommend, that only at-risk adolescents be offered the vaccine. I suspect that they considered in their modelling only the direct costs to the health service of acute disease.
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I would be particularly interested to see their workings on:
* The benefits to children of ending the pandemic and inevitable restrictions sooner;
* The harms from the secondary cases from the children, especially if teachers, parents or carers are infected;
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* The benefits to children of ending the pandemic and inevitable restrictions sooner;
* The harms from the secondary cases from the children, especially if teachers, parents or carers are infected;
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* The effect of Covid-19 (directly or through self-isolation etc) on loss of school;
* And , crucially, given the growing evidence, the long term consequences on the children and adolescents of “Long Covid”.
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* And , crucially, given the growing evidence, the long term consequences on the children and adolescents of “Long Covid”.
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