Do You Think the Vaccimation Will Be Delivered Through Primary Schools?

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A school base programme in primary schools would take up an enormous amount of time and resource. Weare concerned that doing that would actually impact adversely on other vaxin programes, which need to be maintained. So parents will have to take their children to those centres in order to get the vaccimation done. And how do you expect the roll out to go? Well, i guess we'll have to see. At in this case, the risc benefit balances quite tight - not because the risks of the vaccine are high, but because the risk of the disease is very low.

When the announcement came last week that all children aged five to 11 in England will be offered a Covid vaccine, emphasis was placed on parental decision-making. But with factors to consider including disease severity, transmission, long Covid and vaccine side-effects, for many parents and guardians this may not be an easy choice. Ian Sample speaks to Prof Adam Finn about how the evidence stacks up, and what parents should be thinking about when deciding whether to vaccinate their five- to 11-year-olds against Covid-19. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod