elderly, but not all over 50s? no, the evidence actually is that the vaccines are still holding up really well in terms of protection against severe disease, but there are people who will not have responded as well as we would have liked to their first round. the older people, people with obesity, people with other underlying conditions that can reduce the impact of vaccines, not just covid vaccines but many other infectious disease vaccines as well, are often less effective in these groups and i think we should be offering boosters to those, but not more widely than that. let s talk to nicky hutchinson who is in remission from cancer treatment in 2020. she s expecting to be offered a boosterjab, but is concerned about borisjohnson