If the UK government proceeds to give the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to all 12- to 15-year-olds, the young teens may be able to give consent even if their parents say no, a minister said on Sunday. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is currently the only CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine authorised to be used on children over 12 years old by the UK’s medicines regulator. Ministers are yet to decide on whether or not to offer the vaccine to 12- to 15-year-olds pending advice from the four nations’ chief medical officers. The government’s independent advisory body on vaccination and immunisation has advised against offering the vaccine to healthy 12- to 15-year-olds on health grounds, but the chief medical officers are tasked with consulting other experts and “consider the matter from a broader perspective.” Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News on Sunday that he could “give that assurance, absolutely” that parents’ consent will be …