Letters: We could have had a two-tier approach to vaccination which would have tackled asymptomatic spread
A NUMBER of groups of employees, such as police, firefighters, teachers and transport workers, have been seeking higher priority in the NHS immunisation strategy for Covid-19, believing themselves to be at increased risk of catching the disease. However, based on my understanding of information on the Government's coronavirus website, by far the biggest single factor in determining whether someone who becomes ill with Covid-19 suffers the worst possible outcome – death – is their age, with death rates of those who are 90 or more years old being about 50 times higher than those in their ...
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