According to the WHO Strategic Advisory Group, pregnant women should be given adjuvant-free formulations of the vaccine whereever possible.
But the Department of Health's Director of Immunisations Professor David Salisbury said that even though the NHS has stocks of an alternative vaccine called Celvapan, it won't be prioritised for pregnant women
He said: "If the virus is increasing, as it has been recently and we had [the supply of] one vaccine ahead of the other, then we have to make a judgement that says pregnant women are at high risk and they need to be protected. More...
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