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Children and vaccines - your questions answered
大象传媒 Health reporter Jim Reed answers your questions on Covid jabs for teenagers. What are the benefits? What are the risks? And why is the advice changing now?
The UK's chief medical officers say healthy children aged 12 to 15 should be offered one dose of a Covid vaccine.
They say it will help reduce disruption to education.
It comes after the government's vaccine committee said there was not enough benefit to warrant a rollout on health grounds alone.
In this edition of 5 Minutes On, 大象传媒 Health reporter Jim Reed - himself a father of three - answers your questions about the jabs and what we know about the potential risks and benefits to children.
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