Vaccinating children before poor morally wrong, Oxford scientist says
Sun Online Desk
20th May, 2021 07:52:25
Offering children in some richer countries a coronavirus vaccine before some high-risk people in poorer ones is morally wrong , a group of MPs has been told.
Prof Andrew Pollard, who helped develop the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, said the inequity of vaccine distribution must change urgently .
The US and Canada have made a jab available to children as young as 12.
But in many low-income countries those most at risk are yet to be vaccinated. Appalling circumstances The overall aim of a global vaccination programme in a pandemic is to stop people dying, said Prof Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, who led the trials for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.