A disabled woman with severe epilepsy and learning difficulties can be offered the covid vaccine after a court overruled objections by her family.
The woman, referred to as 'X' in court documents, is 50 and lives in supported accommodation in West Derby. She is classed as lacking capacity, and as clinically vulnerable, and her doctors recommended she get the coronavirus vaccine.
However her sister, referred to as 'Y', adamantly opposed her being offered the jab based on fears of "unknown risks". Y, who the Court of Protection heard considered herself a "mother figure" to the woman, also said her sister had tested positive for antibodies of the virus which she argued meant the vaccine was not necessary.
