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In ten staff off sick, operations being cancelled and more and more trusts declaring critical incidents, isn't the nhs already overwhelmed, and you're not doing very much at all to stop it? and secondly, on the issue of staff absences, at lbc we've been hearing about lots of nhs workers who say that even now they haven't been given the fp3 grade medical masks to protect them from covid, others say they can't access lateral flow tests to prevent them having to isolate, what would your response to then be? and if i could just ask sir chris very quickly, how frustrated are you as a medic about th...

Of the vaccine question. the good | of the vaccine question. the good news is as you get vaccinated more the immune system broadens its response so that it covers more variance macro. the immune system tends to get broad as you get more exposed to infection or you get vaccinated. —— more varients. some have a very long lasting memory of what you've seen before, and therefore will provide some durability. i think andrew pollard is right, it would be a situation which is untenable where it is said everybody needs a new vaccine every six months. that's not the long—term view. there may be s...

Say, let's order your questions systematically and say which ones are fair and which ones, as in many cases, are really completely untrue and that have been put into the public domain deliberately often to scare people. insofar i am frustrated, it is simply people deliberately trying to scare fellow citizens away from getting something which is going to be potentially life—saving for them, and stop them getting a hospital admission, and protect people around them. the final thing people want is convenience. that's what the booster programme has allowed. there is a massive expansion of our ca...

Don't know what the vaccine will be for that yet, it is what people will work on in the coming months and years as we look at long—term strategies. i don't see this as something you end up having a vaccine for as frequently as you do now. we need it now because it is at the early stages of the disease, and we need to get boosted for this variant at this moment. there will be a change over time and that'll settle into a much more routine type of vaccine programme as we have four other infectious diseases. —— for other infectious diseases. —— for other infectious diseases. —— for o...

Technical logistics of rolling l their impact. in terms of the i technical logistics of rolling out ventilation units, because the government has said it will fund 7000 ventilation units, is it pretty straight forward? the 7000 ventilation units, is it pretty straight forward?— straight forward? the number of different issues _ straight forward? the number of different issues such _ straight forward? the number of different issues such as - straight forward? the number of different issues such as does - straight forward? the number ofj different issues such as does the room have enough plug ...