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UK Covid rates may rise because of vaccine delay, adviser concedes

But Prof Adam Finn says increase in infections unlikely to stop vaccine’s impact on hospitalisations

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Covid infections could rise as a result of the delay in people in their 40s and younger getting their vaccinations, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has conceded.

Adam Finn, who advises UK health departments on immunisation and is a professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that vaccination of those aged under 50 “may kick off slightly later than we’d optimistically hoped”.

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