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Children should not for the moment be immunised. covid doesn't tend to make children very sick, so the benefits of vaccinating them have to be weighed up against the risks — like myocarditis, inflammation of the heart. it is a very rare complication from pfizer and moderna vaccines, and affects young people more. they tend to recover quickly, but thejcvi wants to know more about the longer term effects. but some of the 3 million iz—is—year—olds across the uk will be invited for a vaccine. 150,000 were already eligible because they have conditions including down�*s syndrome or immune ...

Of vaccinating them have to be weighed up against the risks — like myocarditis, inflammation of the heart. it is a very rare complication from pfizer and moderna vaccines, and affects young people more. they tend to recover quickly, but thejcvi wants to know more about the longer term effects. but some of the 3 million 12— to 15—year—olds across the uk will be invited for a vaccine. 150,000 were already eligible because they have conditions including down�*s syndrome or immune problems. same, too, for another iia,000 teenagers because they live with someone who is immunosuppressed. a...

100%. no vaccine is perfect. because of that, we need to have layered levels of protection and we need to continue to monitor to see whether future strains, future variants might actually be more of a problem. right now it looks like the mrna vaccines are quite effective, especially against severe disease, even with the delta variant. >> tom, do you think people should be getting booster shots? there is data coming out of israel and some more that says that the pfizer vaccine may have -- the antibodies may last six to nine months, not, you know, a year to 18 months as people had thought. when ...

No vaccine is perfect. because of that, we need to have layered levels of protection and we need to continue to monitor to see whether future strains, future variants might actually be more of a problem. right now it looks like the mrna vaccines are quite effective, especially against severe disease, even with the delta variant. >> tom, do you think people should be getting booster shots? there is data coming out of israel and some more that says that the pfizer vaccine may have -- the antibodies may last six to nine months, not, you know, a year to 18 months as people had thought. when do we ...

That gives me a lot of comfort that we won't see the same level of devastation we saw last year with peaks and last winter with peaks. we will see more young people in the hospital because even though the disease doesn't have the same level of impact in young people, if the number of cases is going up dramatically, we will see the number of people hospitalized and unfortunately the number of people that die will continue to increase. when i talk to patients about this and families about it, one thing i try and hit on is that you vaccinate to protect yourself but you also get vaccinated to prot...