Mary Langan, SCALD
Published:
2:45 PM February 26, 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson watches as nurse Jennifer Dumasi is vaccinated during a visit to the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
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One of the few happy events of these grim months of pandemic lockdown was the visit of the local community nursing team bringing the Oxford Astra Zeneca Covid vaccination to the supported accommodation that our son with autism and severe learning disabilities shares with other young men.
We had been concerned at the fact that, though people with Down Syndrome have been given high priority, others with learning disabilities – whose risk of dying from Covid are up to six times the rest of the population – have not.
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