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Credit: steve parsons/pa SIR – On Friday morning I received the Pfizer vaccine. No side effects, or anything else. The arrangements were like a military operation: smooth-running and very competent. The jab was completed in seconds, done by a young doctor whom I did not know in a community hall, with volunteers guiding patients at every stage. All were charming and helpful. The sense of relief afterwards is something to be so grateful for. Janet E Hotter   SIR – Back in the Seventies, in the Lincolnshire village where I lived, two local transport companies would collect produce from the ...

Credit: John Cairns/University of Oxford SIR – You report that, out of the 40,000 retired doctors and nurses who applied in March to return, 30,000 were eligible but only 5,000 were given jobs by July. We also read of venues, from racecourses to conference centres, offering space for jabs to be administered – and being ignored. The NHS’s bureaucracy will delay the vaccination programme. While it insists that it can cope, it is all too apparent that every single resource must be used if the millions of vaccinations required are to be achieved. Lavender Buckland   SIR – I don’t under...