(MENAFN - The Conversation) Back in early January, Prime Minister Boris Johnson predicted that with a fair wind in our sails , the UK would be able to offer a first COVID-19 vaccine dose to its first four priority groups by mid-February.
The winds have evidently been good. All frontline health workers, care home staff and residents, extremely clinically vulnerable people and over-70s – some 15 million people – were offered a first dose before the middle of the month arrived. The question is what happens next.
The UK government s remaining priority groups cover everyone aged 50-70 and all other clinically vulnerable people. However, the government has shown that it s willing to be somewhat flexible with prioritisation, having this week added 1.7 million people to the clinically vulnerable list. Half of those added have yet to receive a first dose, so have been moved up the queue.
By Reuters Staff
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During a historic cold snap that has left millions of Texans without electricity, water, and heat for days, claims that the state’s use of renewable energy sources, specifically wind energy, are to blame have circulated on television and social media. These claims are misleading, as they shift blame for the crisis away from what appears, so far, to be the root cause: record cold temperatures that affected generation and transportation across all fuel types (including, but not limited to, wind energy), combined with the inability of the state’s independent and isolated electricity grid (operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT) to source supplies from elsewhere.
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The KOMU 8 First Alert Weather Team is inÂ
Storm Mode 3 (on a 0-5 scale) through Wednesday (Feb. 17).
This is for another round of accumulating snow Wednesday.Â
WEDNESDAY SNOW (STORM MODE 3)
Passing snow showers will continue through the afternoon, and slowly start to come to an end for the evening. We will see some dry time, and even a few peeks of sunshine are possible this afternoon. Snowfall totals, including what has already fallen and what will fall before the snow ends will range from 1-3 Â