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9 Nov, 9 tweets, 4 min read

💉Almost a year since the UK became the first country in the world to approve a clinically-tested Covid jab, cracks are starting to show.

A complex patchwork of vaccine rules have created no end of confusion

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Currently, teens in the UK aged 12 to 17 are eligible for a jab – but healthy teenagers can only receive one dose.

➡️Countries like Canada and Germany require children over 12 to be double-jabbed to avoid quarantine

❌This is leaving families divided across oceans.

Tanja Hoffman, a Canadian who lives in the UK, planned to fly home this Christmas to visit her 80-year-old mother and 83-year-old mother-in-law.

Now, those plans are on hold
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🗣️“To say we are devastated is an understatement,” Hoffman says.

“Because the UK government won’t fully vaccinate our 17-year-old daughter we are unable to go home”

🔴Teenagers aged 16 and 17 are facing even more confusion.

In August, it was announced that this group should be offered one dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine, with their second jab only becoming available three months before their 18th birthday
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Parents are now worried their children might have to wait for more than a year between jabs – far longer than scientists initially proposed.

✖️Pfizer-BioNTech recommended a gap of three weeks between doses; the government later increased this waiting time to 12 weeks

💉Health Secretary Sajid Javid has been waxing lyrical in recent weeks about the need for patients to arrange their booster jabs as soon as they become eligible.

But, depending where you live, it might prove near-impossible to find a slot
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📱Some patients report spending hours on the phone to their GP or NHS booking service.

Others say they are directed over the phone to walk-in centres, only to turn up and find out that no such service exists
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❗️That's not all. Hopes of winter ski trips have been thrown into peril, and unrecognised medical issues are causing havoc...

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This was due to poor global vaccination rates linked to hesitancy, weak health systems and a lack of access to the jab
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