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AS I write this, more than 90 per cent of over 80-year-olds in Worcestershire have received a first inoculation and the county team is doing a first-class job of reaching the most vulnerable. At the moment, the only constraint on the pace of delivery is the speed at which the vaccines can be manufactured. I am so glad that almost everyone who is offered an injection is agreeing to have one. It is a scientific miracle that there are so many vaccines available only one year on from the start of the pandemic. It’s also testament to the excellent work of the Vaccines Task Force that the...

Valneva vaccine: Nine million people have now had the first dose of their Covid vaccination (Image: GETTY) READ MORE The other highly effective vaccine created by Oxford University and AstraZeneca uses DNA to train the body. Researchers used a modified cold virus named an adenovirus commonly found in apes to carry these instructions to the DNA and produce the spike protein. The result is the same as the American jabs, with a slightly reduced effectivity rate of 90 percent after two doses. Valneva uses an inactivated, adjuvanted vaccine, which diverges from the other two methods. Valneva vacci...