the government s vaccination committee is set to recommend that all 16 and 17 year olds should be given a covid jab. thejoint committee on vaccination and immunisation stopped short of making the move last month because it said it was still assessing the benefits and risks for that age group. about 1.4 million teenagers would be included in the new roll out. some countries, including the united states, canada and france, are already routinely vaccinating those aged 12 and over. joining me now is professor beate kampmann, director of the vaccine centre at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. very good to have you with us, professor. as i said, thejoint committee on vaccination and immunisation had not recommended this roll out to 16 and 17 year olds last month, so i wondered if you could give us a sense of what might have changed in the intervening period?
"To sustain public confidence, compliance, and acceptance of immunization programs, it is important to have active safety surveillance to find AEFIs [adverse events following immunisation] during mass immunization campaigns and to report these events openly and transparently." One strategy national immunisation programmes use to increase uptake of
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