{"id":127649,"date":"2021-09-13T23:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T06:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/britains-young-teens-will-be-vaccinated"},"modified":"2021-09-13T23:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T06:23:30","slug":"britains-young-teens-will-be-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/britains-young-teens-will-be-vaccinated","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s young teens will be vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/britains-young-teens-will-be-vaccinated2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s young teens will be vaccinated \u2014 but with a single dose.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>London: <\/strong>Britain\u2019s chief medical officers have said that vaccinating young teenagers against COVID-19 is justified when their mental health and education are taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>Minors aged between 12 and 15 in England will be offered just a single dose of Pfizer or Moderna beginning next week, with more research ordered into whether a second dose should be given, as is currently administered to those aged 16 and above.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the CMOs brings the UK partly into line with countries <a class=\"\" data-vars-event-action=\"related article\" data-vars-event-category=\"internal link\" data-vars-event-label=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/what-do-we-know-about-covid-vaccines-and-kids-20210902-p58o5o.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/what-do-we-know-about-covid-vaccines-and-kids-20210902-p58o5o.html\" target=\"_top\">like Australia<\/a>, the United States, Israel and many European nations including France, which are already offering the jab to minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s young teens will be vaccinated \u2014 but with a single dose. London: Britain\u2019s chief medical officers have said that vaccinating young teenagers against COVID-19 is justified when their mental health and education are taken into account. Minors aged between 12 and 15 in England will be offered just a single dose of Pfizer or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}