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Old Oct 27, 2021 | 2:17 pm
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Originally Posted by HB7
corporate-wage-slave apologies if you mentioned this before, but is it likely or has it been announced that everyone over 16 will eventually get a booster?
There is no paperwork going around for this, and there isn't much evidence at this point that it will do much good. However some SAGE members have suggested the idea and I have long felt that there would be some pressure to offer this. After all what would you think if you were 49.9 years old? (Actually answer is that on your 50th birthday you become qualified for the booster).. After all children under 18 who live with the immuno suppressed can have dose 1, dose 2 and boosters, whereas other children only get the one primary dose. So I suspect there will be pressure to offer it to the under 50s if they want to have it on an informed consent basis, so minus the hectoring / nudging. However the bigger pressure I suspect will be on whether we now give a second dose to 12 to 17.75 year olds and/or whether we're going down the 5 to 11 year olds route. This entire paragraph is conjecture so don't take it too seriously.
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