6/ for example, 12-15 year olds living in the most deprived areas were Only HALF as likely to have had one jab compared to those least deprived areas 👇
7/ also: black Caribbean children are more than 4 times less likely to have had 1 jab, and more than 5 times less likely to have had 2 jabs compared to white British children
8/ also pupils living in a household with an adult aged 75 or over were only slightly more likely to have had a vaccine
( priority for public health communication is to encourage as many household members of a vulnerable family member to have a vaccine )
(Caveats noted here 👇)
Also May be of interest to @devisridhar who has been a big proponent of sage effective vaccines for children:
Even *if* COVID was 'just another' virus (its not BTW), then this is still a problem. Here's why 🧵
In short, having ('just') ANOTHER virus that hospitalises many and infects many, many more ON TOP of existing respiratory viruses, is a big burden on healthcare
2/n the classic epidemiology bathtub metaphor may be useful here. Lets think of the bathtub as NHS (healthcare system) capacity ... adding covid to the mix, is like rapidly opening the tap up - or rather, like turning an extra tap on.
3/Also its not a choice between covid OR other viral infections
So not only can people get re-infected with covid multiple times, they can also get infected withmultiple viruses-i'll defer to epidemologists and virologists like @SGriffin_Lab@ArisKatzourakis@dgurdasani1 4 more