The people you think should get a Covid vaccine next - from teachers to emergency service workers
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It is the Government’s target for everyone in the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s (JCVI) top four priority groups to have had their first Covid vaccine dose by Monday, February 15.
These groups are:
One – residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
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Two – all those aged 80 and over and frontline health and social care workers
Three – all those aged 75 and over
Four – all those aged 70 and over and the clinically extremely vulnerable (shielding)
The current JCVI advice then sets out five further groups to next receive vaccinations – including those aged between 50 and 65 and those aged 16-64 who suffer underlying health conditions which put them at greater risk.
People in this latter group are classed as at moderate risk from coronavirus and known as clinically vulnerable.
The following groups are:
Five – all those aged 65 and over
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Hide AdSix – all those aged between 16 and 64 with underlying health conditions (clinically vulnerable) which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality
Seven – all those aged 60 and over
Eight – all those aged 55 and over
Nine – all those aged 50 and over
JCVI guidance on these nine groups adds: “It is estimated that taken together, these groups represent around 99% of preventable mortality from Covid-19.”
Calls have recently increased for essential workers, including teachers, retail staff and those in the emergency services, to be vaccinated after the first four groups.
Speaking on Wednesday, January 27, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the Government will work to prioritise police in the roll-out, but has not given a timescale.
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Hide AdWe asked who you thought should be next in line for a Covid jab after those in the first four groups.
This is what you said on the Hartlepool Mail Facebook page:
Anthony Connor: “I am a taxi driver we should be vaccinated next. I take three children to school all week as they are vulnerable children and they don’t wear face masks and we all in a small space.”
Katie Talula Fletcher: “Shop workers and we should be getting tested every week.
Paige Corrie: “Teachers if they aren’t already classed as a priority. Anyone who's having to work through thisno matter how important their job is classed, should be be classed as a priority so they can continue their work without being worried about getting ill or spreading the virus onto friends and family.”
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Margo Rumble Angel: “After all the NHS and care home and care workers … I think then everyone in education so they can at least get back to normality, then all the shop workers and any more keyworkers.”
Alison Jones: “I think a blanket "all other public-facing keyworkers" covers most of the above comments.”
Kaylie Louise: “Supermarket staff and teachers. We are forced into the public daily. Teachers with no PPE and minimal social distancing. Supermarket staff have a mask and a plastic sheet but come into contact with hundreds of people per day.”