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NHS flu jabs and Covid boosters to be scrapped for millions

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1 year, 5 months ago

Cells with bare minimum genes can still evolve as fast as normal cells: study

The Hindu

Around 5,000-10,000 years ago, dairy farming changed some people’s DNA. “What’s more important is that the rate of adaptation was not hampered by having a synthetically reduced genome.” Over 300 days, they found that the minimal cell also effectively regained all of the fitness it had lost due to genome minimisation and could perform as well as the non-minimised cell …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Warning of big change to Covid vaccines in UK

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The NHS in England said that until the universal programme ends, it will continue to …

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1 year, 11 months ago

UK health chiefs crank up plans for spring AND autumn Covid vaccine roll-outs

Daily Mail

It means that millions of Britons will have had an eighth vaccine by next winter Britain's universal Covid vaccine programme will be wound down this year as the country settles into post-pandemic life. Those who are older and those who are immunosuppressed should also receive an extra booster vaccine dose this spring, they advised Latest government data shows that 64.5 …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Children under 10 will get polio boosters as virus returns to UK after 40 years

The Independent

Children under 10 are set to be offered polio vaccine boosters amid a rise in the amount of the virus detected in London's sewage works. Health authorities plan to give children the shots regardless of where they are on their polio vaccine schedule, in a bid to prevent what would be the first community outbreak of the disease in the …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Spring booster recipient tells others offered fourth Covid jab: ‘Do not delay’

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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy One of the first people in England to get the …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Up to five million now eligible to book Covid spring booster jabs

The Telegraph

Up to five million people are now eligible for the spring booster jab, as the NHS launched on Monday the latest phase of its Covid vaccination campaign. Recent research by the UK Health Security Agency found the NHS booster jab helped prevent 157,000 hospitalisations since mid-December. Large numbers still 'seriously unwell' in hospital Nikki Kanani, the deputy leader of the …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Over-50s set to be offered Covid booster vaccines this autumn

The Telegraph

Millions of over-50s could be offered Covid boosters this autumn, as Boris Johnson hailed Britain's vaccine rollout as key to "restoring our liberties in full". Fourth jabs will start being offered to those aged 75 and over from next month, with a further rollout of vaccines expected later this year, when the programme may be much more widely extended. Announcing …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Fourth Covid jab: We can’t vaccinate the planet every six months, says JCVI chief

The Telegraph

Fourth Covid jabs should not be offered until there is more evidence, the head of Britain's vaccine body has said - as he warned that giving boosters to people every six months was “not sustainable”. In an interview with The Telegraph, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said “we need to target the …

Fourth Covid

3 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus LIVE Updates: India Reports 8,865 Covid Cases, Lowest in 287 Days; Singapore to Welcome Fully-vaccinated Travelers from India

News 18

West Bengal reopens in-person classes for school students in class IX, X, XI and XII after a gap of nearly two years. Meanwhile, Singapore is planning to allow quarantine-free travel for fully-vaccinated passengers from India and Indonesia from November 29 and will add three more countries early next month as it hopes to reclaim and rebuild the country’s status as …

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3 years, 1 month ago

'Zero Covid absolutists' accuse JCVI of being 'anti-vax'

Daily Mail

Newly-published minutes from JCVI meetings show that the group first looked at whether letting 12 to 15-year-olds catch Covid naturally was better than vaccinating them on May 13. It looked at a range of reasons against vaccinating people in the age group, which included the argument that natural infection might be better and less risky 'Zero Covid' scientists have slammed …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Keir Starmer demands No10 adopts Plan B

Daily Mail

Sir Keir Starmer today called for No10 to reintroduce compulsory face masks and WFH guidance in response to rising Covid cases amid growing calls for ministers to resort to Plan B — despite Government modelling suggesting the measures are unnecessary. Calls for Plan B come after No10's modellers estimated daily cases could plummet to just 5,000 next month due to …

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3 years, 3 months ago

UK to launch COVID-19 vaccine booster programme next week for vulnerable groups

Firstpost

Health minister Sajid Javid also approved a controversial proposal to offer jabs to children aged 12-15 as concern mounts about the spread of the virus in schools London, United Kingdom: Frontline health and social care workers, older people and the clinically vulnerable in Britain will start to receive a booster jab against COVID-19 from next week, the government said on …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Booster vaccine offered to over-50s within days

The Telegraph

All over-50s will be offered a third vaccine within days alongside the annual flu programme, after experts approved a booster jab for older people. On Tuesday, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation announced that 30million people in priority groups 1 to 9 should receive a third booster dose no earlier than six months after the second dose. The deployment …

Jcvi Booster Programme

3 years, 3 months ago

No decision yet on COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children: UK minister

Live Mint

British vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi on Sunday said a decision had not yet been taken on whether healthy children aged 12- to 15-years-old should be vaccinated against COVID-19, following reports that a rollout could begin in the coming days. Some newspapers reported confidence among ministers that the chief medical officers would swiftly back shots for healthy 12- to 15-year-olds, but …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Johnson prepares to overrule JCVI and offer vaccinations to all teenagers

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dashing widespread expectations of a mass vaccination drive of the nation’s 3.9 million 12 to …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Boris Johnson urged to ‘get on’ with Covid booster jabs rather than wait for scientific advice

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Boris Johnson’s government has been urged to “get on” with a …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Now give Britain the booster it needs: Critics call for NHS to start top-up jabs for ALL over-50s

Daily Mail

Ministers were yesterday urged to ‘stop hanging around’ and launch a mass booster jab programme. Ministers were yesterday urged to ‘stop hanging around’ and launch a mass booster jab programme Jeremy Hunt, who chairs the Commons health committee, said Israel’s campaign was reducing rates of severe illness. Health Secretary Sajid Javid stressed this was ‘not the start of a booster …

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3 years, 4 months ago

UK regulator approves Moderna COVID-19 shot for 12 to 17-year-olds

Live Mint

The UK's health regulator has approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 17 years, it said on Tuesday, weeks after Pfizer's shot was given the green light for deployment ahead of schools reopening. While most children develop mild or no symptoms with COVID-19, they are still able to spread the virus and some remain at risk …

Moderna

3 years, 4 months ago

UK to expand Covid-19 vaccination programme to 16 and 17-year-olds

India Today

Britain's health service will expand its Covid-19 vaccination programme to everyone aged 16 and over, from the current 18 and over, after formal scientific advice in favour of younger age cohorts on Wednesday. "Today’s advice from the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation means more young people aged 16 and over can benefit from Covid-19 vaccines. READ: Mixed AstraZeneca-Pfizer …

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3 years, 6 months ago

MOIRA PETTY: Why mixing your jabs could be even more effective

Daily Mail

Mixing Covid vaccines is not only safe and effective, but could give even greater immunity than having the same vaccine twice, according to a German study published a few days ago. It wasn't the first such finding — previous trials including another in Germany and one in Spain involving 670 people, have found that an AstraZeneca and Pfizer jab combination …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19: GPs are told to CANCEL planned AstraZeneca vaccination appointments for pregnant women

Daily Mail

GPs that are only dishing out AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine have been told to scrap all planned appointments for pregnant women. It advised pregnant women should be offered Pfizer or Moderna vaccines in the first instance — but did not ban expectant mothers from getting AstraZeneca's jab. GPs have now been told to cancel all planned AstraZeneca Covid vaccine appointments for …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Expert committee in UK recommends Pfizer, Moderna vaccines for pregnant women

India Today

Pregnant women in Britain should get a Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer or Moderna because there is more real-world data to show they are safe, the British public body that advises on vaccinations said on Friday. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said around 90,000 pregnant women had been vaccinated in the United States, mainly with the two American …

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3 years, 8 months ago

19 blood clot deaths in UK after AstraZeneca jab, new advisory issued | 5 points

Hindustan Times

The UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on Wednesday advised offering an alternative to AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to adults under 30s amid concerns over blood clot link. The advisory came soon after the EU’s drug regulator announced that the reported cases of blood clotting should be listed as a possible side effect of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine. At least 79 …

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NHS flu jabs and Covid boosters to be scrapped for millions

Cells with bare minimum genes can still evolve as fast as normal cells: study

Warning of big change to Covid vaccines in UK

UK health chiefs crank up plans for spring AND autumn Covid vaccine roll-outs

Children under 10 will get polio boosters as virus returns to UK after 40 years

Spring booster recipient tells others offered fourth Covid jab: ‘Do not delay’

Up to five million now eligible to book Covid spring booster jabs

Over-50s set to be offered Covid booster vaccines this autumn

Fourth Covid jab: We can’t vaccinate the planet every six months, says JCVI chief

Coronavirus LIVE Updates: India Reports 8,865 Covid Cases, Lowest in 287 Days; Singapore to Welcome Fully-vaccinated Travelers from India

'Zero Covid absolutists' accuse JCVI of being 'anti-vax'

Keir Starmer demands No10 adopts Plan B

UK to launch COVID-19 vaccine booster programme next week for vulnerable groups

Booster vaccine offered to over-50s within days

No decision yet on COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children: UK minister

Johnson prepares to overrule JCVI and offer vaccinations to all teenagers

Boris Johnson urged to ‘get on’ with Covid booster jabs rather than wait for scientific advice

Now give Britain the booster it needs: Critics call for NHS to start top-up jabs for ALL over-50s

UK regulator approves Moderna COVID-19 shot for 12 to 17-year-olds

UK to expand Covid-19 vaccination programme to 16 and 17-year-olds

MOIRA PETTY: Why mixing your jabs could be even more effective

Covid-19: GPs are told to CANCEL planned AstraZeneca vaccination appointments for pregnant women

Expert committee in UK recommends Pfizer, Moderna vaccines for pregnant women

19 blood clot deaths in UK after AstraZeneca jab, new advisory issued | 5 points