Should children be given a Covid vaccine?
This is essentially what one of the key policy questions facing the government boils down to. One of the few unambiguous upsides of Covid is that children very rarely get severely ill. Young children especially both transmit and suffer from the virus much less than adults. The chances of under -15s dying of Covid is, literally, one in a million  just 12 are known to have died during the pandemic in England and Wales. Most had severe underlying conditions. Sponsored  For older teenagers the picture is a little different in that like young adults they do catch and pass on the disease easily  but still very rarely suffer severe symptoms. Given that, scientists are