Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 24th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of ensuring priority access to the covid-19 vaccination for people with autism.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 26th March 2021

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has not recommended that those with autism are prioritised for vaccination as they have not yet found evidence that autism is a predictor of more serious outcomes for COVID-19. However, although autism is not considered a learning disability, many autistic people also have a learning disability. Those with learning disabilities and who are on the general practice Learning Disability Register are now included in cohort six in phase one of the vaccine programme.

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