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Jonathan Van-Tam’s ‘mum test’ won’t be enough to convince people to get a Covid jab, experts warn 

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Professor Jonathan Van Tam’s ‘mum test’ won’t be enough to convince Britons to take coronavirus vaccines, an editor of a top scientific journal has warned. England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer attempted to reassure people about jabs last month by claiming he’d encouraged his elderly mother to get inoculated.  But, in an editorial in the Drug and … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam’s numbers behind Boris Johnson’s ‘traffic light’ lockdown

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England’s second wave of coronavirus is extending south of the worst-affected areas in the North of the country and infections are spreading out of young age groups to the at-risk older generations, official data shows. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, today hosted a television briefing laying bare the data that Prime Minister … Read more