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COVID-19 autumn 2023 vaccination programme: JCVI advice, 26 May 2023 - GOV.UK

UK's Joint Commission on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommends COVID-19 boosters only for 65-and-older healthy people plus younger people in special risk groups. Anyone else wanting a booster will have to pay for it privately. The AP "fact check" story says that this is not a ban, but it does indicate a risk-benefit calculation that the risks of the jabs in younger people outweighs their risk of severe illness from the disease. JCVI estimates that you'd have to give the jab to 5,000,000 16-29 year olds in order to prevent one severe hospitalization from COVID in that age group. The UK stopped administering COVID jabs to 15 and under in the fall of 2021.