Frontline health workers will receive autumn COVID booster: The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation announced its advice on eligible groups for the 2023 autumn COVID-19 booster.
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The Committee decided that although most health and social care workers are no longer at much greater risk of severe COVID-19 compared with the rest of the population, offering an additional booster this autumn could potentially protect health and social care services from staff absences due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus this winter.
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