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A panel advising the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now decide whether to recommend booster shots in this age group. The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be given to children aged 12 to 15. Nationwide, the number of patients in hospital with covid-19 increased by 40 per cent in the past week, according to Reuters. New York City’s mayor has vowed to keep schools open despite soaring infection rates, in contrast to cities such as Milwaukee, Cleveland and Detroit. In the US, thousands of schools have delayed the start of term or switched to remote learning amid surging cases caused by the omicron variant. It’s just too difficult to interpret current mixing trends and what the effect of opening schools again will be.” “Whether they then drop precipitously, or we see a pattern a bit like we saw with delta back in July of an initial drop and then quite a high plateau, remains to be seen.

“With an epidemic which has been spreading so quickly and reaching such high numbers, it can’t sustain those numbers forever, so we would expect to see case numbers start to come down in the next week may be already coming down in London, but in other regions a week to 3 weeks,” he said. Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College London, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that infection rates in the capital appear to be stabilising in the 18 to 50 age group, which has been driving the omicron epidemic. Covid-19 cases may have plateaued in London and could start to fall in other parts of the UK within 3 weeks, an epidemiologist and government adviser has said.

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