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By John Stone This letter is republished from January 2019. When I wrote to Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer to the British Government, the headline rate for Northern Ireland schools (2018 figure) was 2.9%. The figure for 2022 was 4.7%,...
Chief scientific adviser and England’s chief medical officer will focus on health inequalities and emerging technologies
Work continues to develop Covid-19 vaccines effective against new coronavirus variants. And some researchers are eyeing an even more ambitious goal: to create broad-spectrum vaccines protective against new types of virus - even before they emerge. Researchers have warned, however, that there are significant technical hurdles to overcome before such “pan-virus” or “pan-coronavirus” vaccines could be released. Here's what we know so far: Why do we need a better vaccine? Events in recent decades – and not just the latest pandemic – have highlighted the possible need for such widely a...
First published on Wed 23 Dec 2020 09.02 EST A senior scientific adviser has said more data is needed before the government can adopt a proposal to give as many people as possible a single dose of a Covid vaccine rather than preserving stocks so there is enough for a second jab. The former prime minister Tony Blair and Prof David Salisbury, a former director of immunisation at the Department of Health, backed the idea on Wednesday, saying second shots should be given only when more stock is available. While the suggestion would mean each vulnerable person who has received the vaccine would be...
18 Dec 2020 ‘I would expect there to be the need for a lockdown after Christmas’ – epidemiologist Prof Liam Smeeth We were joined by Prof Liam Smeeth, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who also works as a GP. Also joining us was Prof David Salisbury, a vaccinologist who is a former director of Immunisation at the Department of Health.