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Vaccinating children before poor morally wrong, Oxford scientist says-553553

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.

Imperative need to speed up vaccines access for poor countries – Oxford scientists

Offering children Covid jabs morally wrong in global context – Oxford expert

It is “morally wrong” to offer Covid-19 jabs to children in wealthy countries when high-risk groups in poorer nations remain unvaccinated, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said. Professor Andrew Pollard, who helped develop the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab, said global vaccine inequity was “plain to see”. His comments come as it emerged that the UK has secured enough vaccine to offer the Pfizer jab for use in children aged 12 and older if it is clinically approved. But Prof Pollard said that children had a “near-to-zero” risk of severe disease or death from Covid-19. And the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that some countries were only just beginning to vaccinate those at highest risk from Covid-19.

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