It has been advised that millions of people should be offered another Covid jab this autumn to help protect vulnerable groups and keep hospital admissions low during the winter – when the NHS is at its most stretched.
The extra jabs will help to protect vulnerable groups and keep hospital admissions low during the winter
While there is ‘considerable uncertainty’ over how severe a future wave of Covid infections in the UK might be and when it may come, the JCVI said the threat from the virus would be greatest in the winter months. Professor Wei Shen Lim, chair of Covid-19 vaccination on the JCVI, said that last year’s autumn booster programme worked well to protect vulnerable groups.
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