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Vaccinating teenagers could prevent further Covid-19 outbreak, expert says

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Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda Vaccinating teenagers against coronavirus could prevent a further outbreak this winter, an expert has claimed.

Professor Peter Openshaw, a member of the Nervtag advisory group, said that offering vaccines to those over the age of 12 could be key to “interrupting” the spread of the virus.

He told Sky News: “I think it’s quite likely, unless we do something pretty radical by way of interrupting the spread of this virus, that we will have to extend vaccination into teenagers in order to prevent a further outbreak in this coming winter and the following spring. “I think we do know that (vaccines) are very effective at inducing an antibody response and they are safe – that has to be

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