Vaccine call
MORBIDLY obese people should be given the flu vaccine, a body that provides advice to Department of Health has said.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said it had been given evidence from Public Health England showing people who are morbidly obese are at a greater risk of complications and death from flu.
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