The British Vaccination Commission (JCVI) has surprisingly spoken out against nationwide corona vaccinations for 12 to 15 year olds.
Although the commission expanded its vaccination recommendation for children and adolescents of this age group with heart, lungs and liver disease, it did not want to make a general vaccination recommendation.
To justify it, it said on Friday in a communication from the health authority Public Health England that the health benefits of a vaccination are marginal for healthy people of this age group.
So far, the Commission's recommendation has only been to vaccinate 12 to 15-year-olds if they fall into the group of people who are particularly at risk from Covid-19.
This includes, for example, people with suppressed immune systems.
Just a week earlier, the British Ministry of Health had announced that it was preparing for the nationwide vaccination of 12 to 15-year-olds in most of England.
It was initially unclear whether the government would follow the recommendation of the vaccination commission.
The chief medical advisors of the four parts of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are now to make a final recommendation that, in addition to individual health, also includes other aspects such as the maintenance of the school.