Vaccine update: Family doctors set to roll out vaccine today - what are the side effects?

The vaccination centres will operate from doctors’ surgeries or community hubs in villages, towns and cities.

Professor Martin Marshall, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said: “GPs and our teams are about to embark on an enormous challenge, delivering the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the community whilst also delivering the expanded flu vaccine programme and the usual care and services our patients rely on us for.”

Amid the ambitious rollout, there are growing questions and concerns about possible side effects.

Speaking in a webinar with Professor Tim Spector of the ZOE COVID Symptom Study, Dr Anna Goodman, Infectious Diseases Consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London, outlined the possible side effects.

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