The madness of vaccinating teenagers
Leave the kids alone – and give those jabs to the developing world.
Thanks to vaccines, the number of people dying with Covid-19 in the UK fell by 99 per cent between January and April. This is a phenomenal achievement and truly worth celebrating. Only now, vaccines are being called on not to prevent serious illness and death, but to serve a political role in the pursuit of Zero Covid. And this, it seems, requires vaccinating children for whom coronavirus has never posed a serious risk.
Back in November, the government promised the nation that the ‘scientific cavalry’ would allow us, in Matt Hancock’s words, to ‘cry freedom’ when the most vulnerable were vaccinated. But now, with an astonishing 75 per cent of the adult population having received a first vaccine dose, we are still embroiled in restrictions. Crying freedom has been postponed indefinitely – or at least until everyone over the age of 12 has received two jabs.