Ministers face a difficult decision on whether to overrule the JCVI's finding on vaccinating 12 to 15-year-olds against COVID19. Analysis from Sky's RowlsManthorpe 👇
The other issue is the potential waste involved in vaccinating teenagers when older people and healthcare workers in other countries still cannot get access to the vaccine, something which is known to weigh heavily in the minds of several JCVI members.Students need to get back 'life they've lost'
This leaves the government with a difficult decision if the return of pupils to schools in England prompts a significant rise in cases of COVID-19, as experts are predicting it will. Either it can overrule the JCVI - something the committee itself suggested was possible, as ministers could take into account wider issues such as disruption to education which it did not look at - or it can attempt to hold back the virus by other methods.
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