With todays comments from Health Secretary Matt Hancock that the whole of the UK will be offered the Covid-19 vaccine by the autumn, once the vulnerable have been offered the jab, who should be next?
Premier League manager, Sean Dyche called for footballers to receive the vaccine as a priority to allow the costs incurred by teams in the Premier League to be donated to help the NHS and Teachers are expected to be moved up the list when the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) meet later in the week but who should be moved to the top of the list?
The current JCVI priority list is:
- Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
- All those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers
- All those 75 years of age and over
- All those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
- All those 65 years of age and over
- All individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put
- them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality
- All those 60 years of age and over
- All those 55 years of age and over
- All those 50 years of age and over
