True, I don't think anywhere (China maybe?) made vaccination mandatory, but as to how they will encourage people to use it is up to them. By sharing it they are possibly hoping those who refuse it will be scared by the prospect of a vaccination passport. When I went to Bahrain in the 1970s I had to have proof of various vaccinations before passing through passport control, we may be going back to those days, but on a larger scale.
I doubt private vaccination will be available much before the end of next year. Initial stocks will be more likely NHS only.
Agest discrimination only matters when you're discriminating against the elderly, as evidenced by the insane requirement that some stores require 'Think 25' validation to buy a can of redbull when there's no legal requirement for any age validation, never mind such an excessive limit.
If it is required by other countries then it will not be down to any UK politician to have to explain it to us. They would only have to explain it to non UK nationals who want to visit here.
A relative of mine who is highly connected with the rollout confidently predicted April as the date by which there’ll be enough surplus vaccine for private vaccination.
As the FCO has historically provided travel advice for pretty much all countries around the world from the UK traveler’s perspective, wouldn’t vaccination requirements for overseas entry also fall under this category? The NHS also provide a degree of country-specific guidance. Politicians will surely (as ever) point people in the direction of government websites to review this advice.
Good to know. I do hope ‘surplus’ is truly that, falling outside of the stated number of doses procured for the NHS across the UK for each of the vaccines.
Yes but it is just advice as the FCO understand it and hence and comes with a caveat. The bolding is by me.
They may just mention the largely British partygoers who flouted restrictions in Sydney yesterday, who may just have helped queer the pitch for you and many others like you.
I think the only think you're supposed to get after your first jab is a card showing the date and time of your "booster"?
www.bbc.com
Until some enterprising 19 year old wins a court case.....
Any attempt to coerce or name and shame will backfire badly.
But once the vaccine is given to those most at risk, they will be much less likely to be hospitalised eve if exposed to the virus. So we could, and should relax restrictions as those most at risk are given it.
Actually there is evidence that people who had the original SARS virus still have long term immunity. Also people who had previous Coronavirus infections have long term immunity which can be effective against Sars-Cov-2.
Absolutely and this will happen.
Gove has said it will happen progressively in response to data, there won't be a presumptive bonfire of restrictions based on the expectation of data improving. Some restrictions will remain until under 50 vaccination programme is well under way.
The Oxford / AZ stage 3 trial also included a third small sub group given two full doses at 8 weeks apart which showed better effectiveness (~+6%) that 2 full doses 4 weeks apart but still no where near as good as a half dose then full dose 4 weeks later.
Just on a point of order, the MMR fiasco wouldn’t have happened if Andrew Wakefield hadn’t undertaken fraudulent, unethical, activity that he then wrote up and publicised hugely in support of his own patent for a single use measles vaccine. There was and is no credible evidence for his proposition, and it is testament to the irresponsible power of the press that the public remember “MMR” rather than the debunking of this fraudulent charlatan quack.
The latest analysis published last night suggests that older covid variants will be extinct by the end of Jan in the the UK (less than 0.1% of cases). Hence the goal posts may have moved a bit with effectiveness at reducing transmission potentially becoming more important with the new strain(s).
