[Tex/LaTex] \vspace in beamer

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I'm trying to produce some padding around a table in a beamer slide. I've tried using \vspace{10mm} but that doesn't seem to produce anything. Other vertical spacing commands such as \bigskip don't seem to work either.

I've searched but I can't seem to find any solution to this. I assume beamer manages its own vertical spacing, but surely there must be some way to override this?

The minimal example below shows the problem with the table being too close to the text above and below:

\documentclass[t]{beamer}

\usecolortheme{rose}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Results: School children}
    \begin{block}{Hypothesis}
        School closures may cause significant reductions in disease spread
    \end{block}

    \begin{block}{Results}
    Worst case scenarios:
    \bigskip
    \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline \textbf{\% School Closure} & \textbf{Clinical Attack Rate} & \textbf{Mortality per 100,000} \\ 
\hline 0 & 30.6\% & 614 \\ 
\hline 100 & 0.6\% & 4 \\ 
\hline 
\end{tabular} \\
    With 100\% school closure starting early (0.1\% of population symptomatic) mortality is reduced \textbf{below normal levels for US seasonal flu}

    \end{block}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Best Answer

Put empty lines (aka paragraph breaks) before and after the tabular.

\documentclass[t]{beamer}

\usecolortheme{rose}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Results: School children}
    \begin{block}{Hypothesis}
        School closures may cause significant reductions in disease spread
    \end{block}

    \begin{block}{Results}
    Worst case scenarios:

    \bigskip
    \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline \textbf{\% School Closure} & \textbf{Clinical Attack Rate} & \textbf{Mortality per 100,000} \\ 
\hline 0 & 30.6\% & 614 \\ 
\hline 100 & 0.6\% & 4 \\ 
\hline 
\end{tabular}

    \bigskip
    With 100\% school closure starting early (0.1\% of population symptomatic) mortality is reduced \textbf{below normal levels for US seasonal flu}

    \end{block}
\end{frame}

\end{document}
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