a lot of reason for— end. i hope so and i think there is a lot of reason for thinking - end. i hope so and i think there is a lot of reason for thinking that i a lot of reason for thinking that could be the case, because if you look at the current wave, the third wave, it is obviously less severe than the previous two. plus we have this amazing fortification of the vaccine wall and in scotland everyone has done a fantasticjob, the vaccination rate is about 90%, a point higher even than the rest of the uk, and that is unquestionably helping us to deal with delta. what we have to be careful of is further waves and new variants coming in and so there are a couple of things we wanted to do. number one, as you will have seen to date from the jcvi, we are going to get some extra protection by encouraging 16 and 17—year—olds to come forwards and getting vaccination. do