England urged to step up vaccinations to avoid winter Covid surge
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5QC9E)
Prof Neil Ferguson calls for booster rollout and teenagers' second jabs to be accelerated to ease NHS pressure
The distribution of Covid boosters for the most vulnerable people and second shots of vaccine for teenagers should be accelerated to help prevent a winter surge of coronavirus overburdening the NHS, a senior scientist has said.
Prof Neil Ferguson, the head of the influential disease modelling group at Imperial College London, said England's vaccine strategy had been cautious" in recent months, with many teenagers having only one jab, and boosters for the most vulnerable people given no sooner than six months after their second dose.
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