10 Jan 2022

Children's Covid vaccine crucial to achieving herd immunity

From Morning Report, 8:49 am on 10 January 2022

More than half a million doses of the children's Pfizer vaccine have arrived in the country, ahead of the rollout next week.

From next Monday, those aged from 5 to 11 can receive their first paediatric dose, which is about a third of an adult shot.

It comes amid a new study out of Australia and Canada, which found adults are actually the biggest beneficiaries when children are vaccinated.

Professor Michael Good from Queensland's Griffith University spoke to Sarah Robson.