{"id":16927,"date":"2021-09-03T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T22:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=16927"},"modified":"2021-09-03T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T22:35:50","slug":"who-will-be-eligible-for-a-third-covid-jab-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=16927","title":{"rendered":"Who will be eligible for a third Covid jab in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who will be eligible for a third Covid jab in the UK?<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”396013″]This article was originally published on The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

Half a million people in the UK who have severely weakened immune systems are to be offered third shots of Covid vaccines in an effort to improve their protection against the disease.<\/p>\n

So what is the advice, who is eligible, and where does this leave plans for an autumn booster programme?<\/p>\n

What is the new advice on vaccines?<\/h2>\n

The government\u2019s independent vaccine advisers, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), has recommended a third shot of Covid vaccine for people with severely weakened immune systems. The committee estimates 400,000 to 500,000 patients aged 12 and over are eligible in the UK.<\/p>\n

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Half a million people will be offered another vaccine shot, with a decision on autumn boosters yet to be reached<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-media","category-featured","category-covid19"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cll-Covid-UK.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16929,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16927\/revisions\/16929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}