RE: RE: RNS - I like it17 Oct 2020 13:06
The key message is that there is MORE THAN ONE vaccine in the pipline. There are more than 2. This means that we can target specific groups of people, like those with specific illness or cancer treatments, with a better/safer vaccine.
We are then less boholden to supply issues with one producer. We can crack on and give the available vaccine to the appropriate group in whatever order is most efficient.
I seriously doubt at this stage that vaccine supply will be the limiting factor - administering it will be and the organisation of it. Hiving it off to the provate sector will create the usual expensive disaster (like track and trace) that eats all the money and ****s all the work over GPs and hospitals who have to cope 'for free'.
To vaccinate half the population twice (2 stage vaccines) is like doing TWELVE annual flu jab campaigns......in a year with a pandemic, where you have to socially distance patients, in a year where you've already done the biggest flu vaccine campaign in history. My practice of 30k patients did 66% more patient contacts (face to face, phone and online) in September that we did in September 2019 (and 83% more than Sept 18!) - its BUSY. If a tiny fraction of this work went to A&E they would collapse in 24 hrs.
Now, if only the government hadn't massively underfunded Primary Care in the past decade and spent all its energies briefing ****wits in crap newspapers like the Telegraph with lies about GPs 'refusing' to see patients*........
*when they have ORDERED us to do telephone based primary triage in the first place.
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