There is 'no evidence' that children aged five to 11 years need a vaccine booster shot, a top expert has warned, just as leaders at the and plan to begin rolling out doses to elementary school-aged children as early as this week.Dr Monica Gandhi, an infectious diseases scientist at the University of , San Francisco, told DailyMail.com there were no studies showing the extra jab lowered children's risk of symptomatic infection. Youngster's are already at very low risk of severe disease and death, multiple data sources and studies find.She added that it was 'not clear' whether any benefit from the jab outweighed the risks for the age group, given the rare side-effect myocarditis — or heart inflammation — which is more likely among young boys.
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