England plans biggest winter flu vaccine rollout
Free flu vaccines will be offered this winter to children aged two to 16 in England, as well as people aged 50 and over or in “at-risk” groups, amid the double threat of Covid and influenza.
Experts hope for a record-breaking rollout reaching more than 35 million people, including more teenagers than ever before.
Last winter there was a high uptake, with 19 million doses given.
Under-16s will be offered the vaccine in nasal spray rather than as a jab.
An expanded secondary school programme means, for the first time, pupils up to Year 11 (aged 11 to 16) will be invited, not just those in their first academic year – Year 7 – like last winter.
When the programme begins in September, the flu vaccine will be available for free on the NHS to:
- all children aged two and three on 31 August 2021
- all children in primary school and all secondary school pupils aged 11 to 16
- those aged six months to under 50 years in clinical risk groups
- pregnant women
- those aged 50 years and over
- unpaid carers
- close contacts of people with weak immune systems (immunocompromised individuals)
- front-line health and adult social care staff
People who are not in these groups will be able to pay for a flu vaccine at some supermarkets and High Street chemists, once available.
Flu levels were lower than expected across the world last winter, which experts attribute to infection control measures introduced to stop Covid, such as mask wearing, social distancing and lockdowns.
It is not clear what this winter may hold for flu and Covid.
Research from Public Health England, carried out in the first pandemic wave before any Covid vaccine had been made or given, suggests risk of death is more than doubled for people who catch flu on top of coronavirus, compared to coronavirus alone.
Flu by itself can also be a serious condition – it kills about 11,000 people in England each year.
Alongside the flu drive, the government is preparing for a booster programme of Covid vaccines for those most vulnerable, such as older people and those with underlying health conditions.
Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: “Last winter, flu activity was extremely low, but this is no reason for complacency as it means less people have built up a defence against the virus. Combined with the likelihood that Covid will still be circulating, this makes the coming flu season highly unpredictable.“
Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: “We want to build a wall of protection by immunising a record number of people. With the nation getting closer to normal life, we must learn to live with Covid-19 alongside other viruses and we’re offering the free flu jab to millions more people to help keep them safe this winter.“
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very old white guy
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I like that line, “double threat of covid and influenza” Covid is the the flu and so far no one has medically proven otherwise.
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Mark Tapley
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Hi Old white Guy:
The fake covid is not just the flu but also gunshots to the head, motorcycle fatalities and anything else the medical racket can get away with. As the elective surgeries have tapered off, the hospitals a being well paid by just tagging everything as covid. Any time there is a fake disease this is done but now there is an extra financial incentive. During the manmade polio “epidemic” there were about nine neurological diseases tha could be tagged as polio, which was really just a symptom, not an actual disease. As the fake vaccines were rolled out that in many cases caused paralytic crippling and death, they gradually dropped the other neurologic ailments off the list. Result- polio cured.
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itsme
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‘ it kills about 11,000 people in England each year’
so thats 365 days – thats 30 people a day in the UK that die from flu – wait!!! shut the whole world down – 30 people a day are dying from FLU!!!!!
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Herb Rose
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The ones at greatest risk in the coming flu season is those who have been vaccinated. Giving them anther vaccination will only help the pharmaceutical companies and the morticians.
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MarkTapley
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Hello Herb:
All the countries are working to keep the graphene oxide “vaccine” program going full blast. Just introduce some more “variants” and post more fake numbers. Gates has already said there are too many “useless eaters” just sucking air and generating C02. Those “rare” adverse reactions are really not a problem. Big Pharma has lots of new drugs flowing through their pipeline to the treat the goyim.
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Doug Harrison
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Free influenza shots! There’s no such thing as free anything. We will all pay through the nose as you can bet the costs will be astronomic and it will be very difficult to find out exactly how much they do cost.
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Linden Sheffield
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Yet another cash cow for Big pHarmer – why can people not SEE this?
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Rhonda
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I taught elementary school for thirty years. I very seldom got sick, ate well, drank filtered water, basically lived a healthy lifestyle. I never had a flu shot and seldom became ill unless I was detoxing from pollutants etc. Yes, we all get sick at times which is normal detoxing and cannot be prevented. This normal natural detoxing does not require the use of vaccines so I continue to refuse all jabs.
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