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Rolling out vaccines to care homes first comes with risks attached

Elderly people are more likely to have health problems that could be conflated with adverse reactions

The writer is a science commentator

In 2009, Natalie Morton, a British teenager, collapsed and died after receiving the human papillomavirus vaccine at school. The tragedy was splashed across newspapers and raised fears over a vaccine that had been given to more than 1m girls.

Natalie’s death turned out to be a terrible coincidence. A postmortem revealed the schoolgirl had an undiagnosed large malignant tumour in her heart and lungs that could have killed her at any time. Her death, experts concluded, was unrelated to the vaccine.

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