Israel is continuing to shame Britain and the rest of the world with its 24/7 vaccination programme as it now begins innoculating people as young as 55. The Middle Eastern country has raced ahead by squeezing every last dose out of its vaccine supplies and using its efficient health system to launch a round-the-clock immunisation … Read more
Joan Collins appeared on Good Morning Britain on Monday to reassure anyone who was worried about getting the Covid vaccine. The 87-year-old, who had the Oxford jab recently said the jab was the ‘easiest thing’, said she felt fine afterwards and even had a drink when she got home. She said: ‘I just really want … Read more
Frail residents in the nation’s care homes have been betrayed by the slow rollout of the vaccine, it was claimed last night. Care providers say they have been ‘left in the dark’ and hit by outbreaks while waiting for jabs. Health Secretary Matt Hancock promised on December 10 that care home residents would be vaccinated … Read more
Britons are ‘highly likely’ to need a Covid vaccination every year for the ‘foreseeable’ future, Matt Hancock has today warned, as he also revealed 200,000 people a day are now receiving their first dose of the jab. The Health Secretary said the UK could require an ‘dual vaccination programme’, with yearly jabs to protect against … Read more
While the shortage of beds and staff distress are all too real, what hospital doctors and nurses see on the wards does not reflect the average experience of Covid-19, writes Professor Robert Dingwall (pictured) The reports from Britain’s hospitals in the past few days have been truly worrying. No one should doubt the reality of what … Read more
Elderly Britons who flout Covid rules after both jabs could ‘more than offset’ the benefits, experts warn Experts fear many will stop social distancing after they have been inoculated Protection from Covid only kicks in about two weeks after the first vaccine dose It remains unclear whether the jabs stop infection or just stops people … Read more
Police hunt Covid conman who jabbed 92-year-old woman in arm with ‘DART’ then charged her £160 after going door-to-door offering fake vaccines Woman, 92, was jabbed in the arm with a ‘dart-like implement’ in South London Man ‘from NHS’ knocked on her door and said he was administering vaccines Conman asked for £160, which victim … Read more
Three new studies suggest that as many people as possible should receive at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Currently, both vaccines approved for emergency use authorization in the U.S. – from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc – require two doses administered about one month apart. But researchers from Yale University, Stanford University and the … Read more
The advice was simple: one jab, and then another three weeks later. ‘It’ll only work properly if you come back for the second dose,’ is what Dr Helen Salisbury, an Oxford-based GP, had told her patients – all in their 80s and beyond – at the time of their first shot of the Covid vaccine. Doubtless, … Read more
India has completed a full dry run of its Covid-19 vaccination programme as it gears up to give the jabs to 300million people. Experts at the country’s drugs regulator have recommended for emergency use two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other backed by a state-run institute, the government said … Read more