Govt Scientist: It Could Take a Year to Vaccinate Whole of UK
16 Dec 2020
A member of the British government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has said that it could take a whole year to vaccinate the entire United Kingdom, adding that it is not known if the new vaccines will actually stop people from passing on Chinese coronavirus.
While Britons might have hoped that the recent approval and rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine would have afforded them a return to normal by Spring, SAGE’s Sir Jeremy Farrar and Professor Tim Cook, an intensive care medical consult from the University of Bristol, penned a warning to the contrary in an article for the journal,
Share this article 15 December 2020 An editorial co-authored by a member of the UK s influential SAGE committee that advises the UK Government on COVID-19, and published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) says that in order for the global COVID-19 vaccination program to be successful, the available vaccines must be able to do all three of: prevent infection becoming established in an individual, prevent disease progression and prevent onward transmission. Whether all three of these goals will be met by first generation vaccines is not known, but is vital to the long-term success of the program, explained co-authors Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar , Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and Director of the Wellcome Trust , and Professor Tim Cook , Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal United Hospital NHS Trust , Bath and Honorary Professor at the Bristol Medical School .
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